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There is something completely primordial, natural, almost mystical about turning olives into olive oil. While you are picking olives and your hands become softer from the oil of the fruits you touch, it is as if a part of you returns to ancient times when the winners of the Olympic Games were given olive oil and crowned with olive branches, and when the ancient Greeks believed that, if you anoint Zeus' statue with olive oil, he will be so honored and gift you with a long life.

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Olive oil production has a long history in our family, dating back a few hundred years.

We are small producers, so we know our olive groves and the trees in them by heart. Which one has a hole, which one was planted last year, the one that was planted from a sapling and from which a friend fell during the harvest and finished in the emergency room. We are proud of them. In fact, they are members of our big family.

You can find mostly old autochthonous varieties of olive trees, Buža and Rosinjola in our olive groves. They have been present on this Istrian land for centuries and have adapted to it. We want to keep the old varieties because, although they ultimately produce much less oil than some commercial varieties, their oil is special.

Our olive varieties are native Istrian.

There is an old saying in Croatia that the vine is like a lover; you have to take very good care of her every day otherwise she will go away. And the olive tree is like a mother; even when you leave her, ignore her, dedicate yourself to something else, when you come back she will welcome you with open arms.

Mom and dad

One day I found my mother in the olive grove next to a small olive tree. We planted the olive tree a few years earlier in the place of an old olive tree that unfortunately dried up. The tree was young and short but had a beautiful lush canopy. Mom stands next to the olive tree with a sponge in her hand and the olive tree full of soap, all white with foam.

"Mom what are you doing?"

"Poor thing got sick, I'm trying to save her"

The scene was unreal. She was washing the tree's hair. Like a mother and a small child. A small child with a very large afro haircut.

The olive tree recovered. Today, it is already so big that no one would be able to wash her hair. But I smile every time I pass by her.

Dad is the "mechanization guy", although it sometimes gives him headaches. He makes sure that the olive trees are mowed, watered and fed. At the same time, he sometimes "pushes" a tree or two with the tractor, which makes mom yell at him as loudly as she can. It's like when you have children, always a fuss going on.

Mom and dad created Perdisacca. They planted new olive trees, took care of the old ones, shed a tear in the years when the heat destroyed all the flowers on them. They are their parents, in the full sense of the word.