Olive grove is an agricultural land with a plantation of olive trees and which is used for olive growing. The quality of the olive fruit is determined by many factors, such as for example the location, sun exposure, microclimatic conditions and soil. The saint patrons of olive growers are St. Spiridon, St. Nicola.
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The tree has an irregular, branched shape; it grows up to 10m. The bark is smooth and grey on young trees, later it gets darker and veined. The leaves are oblong, skin-like and oval, dark-green on the top side and white-silver on the lower side. The fruit is a one seed drupe of oval shape, initially green, and later almost black.
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Methods used for olive harvesting directly from the tree are by using a trunk shaker for harvesting or hand-picking. Usually, a combination of the two is used. The most common way for picking olives which fall from the tree is by placing nets around the tree. Olives which came in contact with the ground cannot be picked.
Olive harvest has to be done manually, and the olives are processed by cold pressing already after a few hours, which preserve all valuable and healthy ingredients in the oil.
Oil is separated from the olives by a centrifugal process which takes place in modern machines. Temperature shouldn’t rise above 27 °C in order for the product to preserve its fruitiness, odour and taste.
The assortment of olives we grow and harvest is different: leccino, pendolino, frantoio, buža, rosulja, crnica, istarska bjelica, ascolana, oblica. Manner of growing: semi-intensive, polyconic vase, vase-like crowns, terraces.
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The Agro-millo is an agricultural family operated business in which the very members of the family carry out with great are their own duty inside the agricultural undertaking as well as in their own olive-groves and in the oil mill during the period of milling. The undertaking can rely on a surface area of 7 hectares covered with olive trees in western inland of Istria, in the area of Buje, which was appreciated for the esteemed quality of its olive oil as far as from the time of ancient Romans.
The olive groves of the Flego family are located in the Northern Istria on three plots of land, on terraces of up to 400 meters above the sea level with a view to Motovun.
Since we planted our first olive tree in 2004 with a goal to revive the traditional trade of this territory – olive growing, until today we have planted an impressive 2500 trees of different olive types: istarska bjelica, buža, leccino, pendolino, rošinjola, ascolana, oblica, moraiolo, frantoio, pišolino and istarska crnica (Motovun origin).
Extra virgin olive oil produced by the Flego family is according to the portion of free fatty acids, chemical parameters, sensorial, organoleptic analysis been highly graded as a champion on numerous occasions. It has a great significance in both nutrition and medical uses.
Planned annual production of extra virgin olive oil is 3000 liters, it is available in bottles of 0,25l, 0,5l, 0,75l, 1l and 5l at the following addresses:
