Olive Tree Sponsorships 2023 Ticker

Today we visited Luca from Olio Calvi down in the village. These are the people who bottle your olive oil and ship it to the countries. The new labels have been delivered to him so that we can finally start production.

The release of the labels by the BioAGRICert office was delayed by approx. 2 weeks. But now we’re ready to go. Luca will start in the middle of next week and send the entire shipment to Germany at the end of next week. The shipper is already waiting there to send the individual parcels to the sponsors.

The labels have now been approved by BioAgriCert and are at the printers. They need approx. 6 days. The labels are then delivered to Olio Calvi. The olive oil is bottled and labeled there. Estimated dispatch date to sponsors: 2nd week in February.

Daniele, the graphic designer at GRAFICHE AMADEO, provided the missing logos and designed the new labels. Now she has to have Luca released. Then we can fill and label the bottles.

Everything is already prepared at the shipping service provider in Munich-Garching. The shipping boxes have been delivered and the team is waiting for the olive oil to be delivered.

The olive oil is ready at Luca’s. He is still waiting for the delivery date for the glass bottles. There have been bottlenecks here for years. This year too, although one might think that there should be an abundance of bottles due to the poor harvests.

But he expects the bottles to arrive soon.

At the same time, we start producing the new labels. Each label must be approved by the Italian Chamber of Commerce, which always takes some time.
Olivo Calvi can then fill the olive oil into bottles and label the bottles.

As today is already St. Nicholas Day, we assume that Olio Calvi will deliver our olive oil at the beginning of January.
He then sends it on to Germany and other countries by freight forwarder, where shipping service providers are waiting to pack the individual parcels.

We therefore assume that the olive oil will be with the sponsors in mid to late January.

Luca has made us a concrete offer. The blend olive oil, bottles for filling, bottling, labeling. That sounds good. Now we can calculate how much olive oil we can send to the sponsors. This calculation looks something like this:

Yield sponsorship less:
– Sponsorship costs (wooden signs, material, mounting, videos, etc.)
– Running costs of the farm, which are incurred even without yield per tree
– Support Tesori della riviera
– Purchase olive oil
– Print labels
– Labeling
– Packaging
– Shipping to Germany and other European countries
– Fullfillment (individual packaging for godfathers, cartons, handling)
– Postage for single shipment

From the remaining amount, we can now calculate how much each sponsor can receive.

Luca from Olivo Calvi offers a solution for us. He has a very good blend of olive oil for us. We drive down to his place to try it out. It’s very good! Green, mandorle, green artichoke, apple and not bitter. He can sell us the oil at an acceptable price.

The first farmers from the neighborhood respond to our inquiry. But so far we’ve only gotten rejections. Either they haven’t had enough olives themselves, or they are asking a price of over 20 euros per liter. Then there would be the bottling and labeling. So it doesn’t work.

As we have virtually no olive oil this year, but want to send you, the godparents of the olive trees, olive oil in any case, we have decided to buy olive oil from farmer friends. That’s why we’ve started a circular call.

Result: As the harvest is often still in progress and the yield is often very poor, nobody wants to commit to selling olive oil and at what price.

We finished the harvest again after only 5 days. There were no olives on about 80% of the trees. Thus, the harvest this year is 112 liters, instead of 2,000 liters in a good year.

Due to the infestation of the olive trees with the olive fruit fly, we must now quickly start harvesting. Due to the surprise cool and damp nights, we have a heavy infestation of olive fruit fly. It pierces the olives and lays its eggs in the olive. Thus, the olive is dead, turns black and falls off.