Our journey began years ago while we were both serving as aircrew in the Royal Air Force.

After our two children were born, Emma retired from service, spending the next several years as a "trailing spouse," following Scott’s career across the globe—from Germany and the USA to Belgium and beyond.

Through every posting, one constant remained: our shared love for Italy. Its language, culture, countryside, and—most importantly—its food captured our hearts during Scott’s service in Puglia in the late 1990s.

Years later, when Scott was posted to the NATO Defence College in Rome for his final tour, we finally felt like we had come home. Seeking a quiet escape from city life for weekend retreats with our dogs, we set out to find a small country "bolt-hole." What started as a modest search for a weekend getaway quickly evolved into something much larger.

One thing led to another, and that little bolt-hole grew into an abandoned olive farm complete with vineyard, citrus trees, a walnut grove, and a 300-square-metre farmhouse in desperate need of modernisation.

Of course, we took the leap.

We claimed the land back from nature, restored the house, and embraced the rhythm of rural Italian life.

Today, we have traded the speed of flight for the deliberate, nurturing pace of the farming year.

We are proud to call ourselves olive farmers, and we are committed to the Slow Food ethos that first drew us to this beautiful land.

Welcome to our world. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour as much as we do.