Want to do something for the environment – and get something in return? How about adopting an olive tree?
Nudo is a cooperative of nine local olive-farming artisans in a small hilltop village in the Marche region of Italy – and its Adopt An Olive Tree program enables you to adopt a tree of your choice, in the region of your choice, in the grove of your choice. Seriously. You get to pick the exact tree you want to adopt.
Then, for an entire year, you receive all the produce from that tree. With each adoption, you’ll receive an adoption certificate – and in the spring, a package containing all the extra virgin olive oil from your tree.
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Later, in the autumn, you’ll receive a set of three flavored extra virgin olive oils. And also – an open invitation to come water (or hug) your olive tree whenever you want.
Best of all, by adopting a tree, you’ll enable small farmers the certainty of knowing that their olive oil (and their efforts) will receive a fair price and reliable payment.
Okay, so you need a celebrity endorsement too? Fine. How about Gwyneth Paltrow, who wrote glowingly on Nudo’s website about this family-run cooperative and how the adopt-a-tree program helps to save artisanal farmers’ businesses.
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Of course, with every olive oil, the real truth is in the taste – and Nudo’s artisanal oils come in tastefully-designed, black-and-green 250 ml. tins (because tin protects oil from light, which compromises the oil’s flavor), which are 57% recycled.
Choose from a variety of limited edition oils, including olive oil stone ground with mandarins, or garlic, or basil, or thyme, or oranges – or just plain extra virgin olive oil, and drizzle on everything. After tasting Nudo, you’ll believe that it’s possible to live on olive oil alone.
Still need convincing? Think about this historical fact: naked Spartans rubbed themselves with olive oil while exercising at the gym, thereby eroticizing the male form. Enough said. Order already.
