{"id":21676,"date":"2012-01-02T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ikaria.ch\/?page_id=21676"},"modified":"2024-04-13T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T14:23:57","slug":"ursulas-olive-oil-the-liquid-gold-of-the-south","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ursula.ikaria.ch\/en\/ursulas-olive-oil-the-liquid-gold-of-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula’s olive oil – the liquid gold of the south"},"content":{"rendered":"
Together with my husband, we took over his family’s three-hundred-year-old estate around 35 years ago and have been managing it ever since in keeping with the family tradition of mindful interaction between people and nature.<\/p>\n
We look after 180 olive trees, planted on the narrow terraces by our great-great-grandfather, as they did back then. We use no machines, no artificial fertilizers and no pesticides.<\/p>\n
Our olive oil is a purely natural product made from hand-picked, organic olives. We only produce it in small quantities, primarily for our own consumption. If there is excess, it is available from us. It can either be purchased directly from us in Ikaria or temporarily in Switzerland. Since we always bottle it fresh, it is advisable to contact us beforehand: contact link<\/a><\/p>\n Not all organic is the same! In Ikaria there is no industry, no highways, no fine dust pollution, no air or groundwater pollution! There is only the warming sun, spicy air, the mist of the sea and the fertile cultivated soil of our terraces.<\/p>\n The Island of the Centenarians, or Blue Zone<\/a>, as Ikaria is also called. Many books and studies have been written about it. Along with Icarian wine, olive oil is the most important ingredient in the Mediterranean diet, which allows the Icarians to age so healthily and contentedly.<\/p>\nIkaria Blue Zones<\/h2>\n
Fertile cultivated land<\/h2>\n