Natural Enviroment & Olive Growing Symbiosis.

We apply olive growing methods which work towards healthy food systems and landscapes that sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people. We deliver research-based olive goods that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably and transform food systems to improve people’s lives in an era of climate crisis. Our cultivation system is based on:

Traditional Methods

Organic & Early Stage Biodynamic Cultivation

Climate Neutral Farming

Soleley Rain Irrigation

Organic Fertilizing

Honey Bees & Many Subspecies Shelter .

A Natural Food source for Local Residents ,domestic & wild animals, birds, beneficial insects

The Olea Erus Ecosystem offers honey bees plenty of food choices such as: Wild flowers, plant flowers, fruit tree flowers such as local varieties of pear trees, sour cherry trees, apricot tress, apple trees, almond trees, peach trees and many others. We host beehives during all periods of the year. Organic cultivation and soil regeneration methods are out tools to maintain biodiversity & balance within the natural environment.

Biodiversity & Honey Bees

Honey Bees Shelter

Olea Erus Ecosystems are the natural home and feeding source for honey bees and their subspecies.

Biodiversity & Honey Bees

Olive trees and bees have a symbiotic relationship, which means that they depend on each other to thrive. Bees play a useful role in the pollination of olive trees, which is important to their reproduction and fruit production. Olea Erus Ecosystems host Apis Mellifera (Honey Bee) and many subspecies.

Biodiversity & Crezing

Coexistence with animal husbandry

Sheep grazing is part of the natural fertilization and cutting of weeds. It is part of the local character of olive cultivation.

“Olea Erus :A Sources Of Life For Many Flora & Founa Species .

We protect the biodiversity of olive groves for them to be something much more important than a single source of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. We want these small ecosystems to be the natural shelter of all kinds of local flora and fauna. A place where visitors can live, see, feel and taste the beauty and importance of Southwest Magnesia’s Traditional Character Of Olive Growing.

We have already registered many medicinal and beekeeping plants and shrubs. Categories of bees, useful insects, birds and small animals and reptiles that contribute to the balance of both the ecosystem and the quality of the valuable goods of the wild olive tree. And there is still a lot of work to be done

BIODIVERSITY & MEDICINE

Medicine Flower & Plants

Hypericum Perforatum , Cistus Incanus and many others wild medicinal plants consistitute the ornament of the olive estates .

Biodiversity & Goods

Biodiversity Means Quality

Olive goods’ unique characteristics are strongly connected to the local biodiversity, microclimate, soil and other unique factors.

BIODIVERSITY & FAUNA

Our Fauna

From ancient times to the present day, Pteleos has been an area with great and complex biodiversity and microclimate. A characteristic type of Mediterranean landscape. It is a natural shelter and habitat for coexistence of useful insects, birds, small animals and reptiles. Despite human intervention, it continues to be a symbiotic place for olive cultivation and nature’s creatures.

Biodiversity & Fauna

Coccinella

Coccinella are an important predatory species that generally prey on insects. They play a vital role in controlling pests in agricultural ecosystems. Coccinella are generally predators of scale insects, the olive psyllid, eriophyid mites and immature stages of Lepidoptera.

BIODIVERSITY & FOOD

Source Of Natural Food

Traditional olive estates have for centuries been the source for food of local farmers and domestic animals. Fruit from trees of local varieties and edible greens full of antioxidant properties have been the main characteristic of the traditional olive groove notion, the ornament of the olive estates.

OLIVE GROVES ECOSYSTEM

The Value Of Olive Groves Ecosystems

Crovetti ,ascribes the stability of the agricultural ecosystem to the marked complexity in the intraspecific and interspecific relationships between the insects associated with the olive resulting primarily from the lengthy growing period. Considering the biotic forms, the flora in the olive grove ecosystem presents an exceptional resemblance to the flora of Mediterranean type ecosystems.

Consequently, the artificial system of an olive grove, as opposed to what stands in other agroecosystems, is very similar to the natural Mediterranean ecosystems, even in its functional, efficient condition. This claim is proved by a number of researches. The cultivated olive tree is the grafted form of a wild olive tree, which is a basic element of evergreen (maquis) vegetation, one of the principal types of Mediterranean ecosystems. Many olive groves have substantially resulted from the vaccination of the wild olive tree that already existed there. According to phytogeographers one of the main flora communities with one of the widest expansions in the Mediterranean space is the Oleo-Ceratonion, which, as its name suggests, is characterized by the presence of the olive tree.

The existence of a significant number of diverse plants of the Mediterranean flora in cultivated olive groves ensures the conditions for the creation of a multitude of habitats for animals. The olive has a wealth of arthropod fauna, comprising one hundred or so phytophagous species in addition to others described as being useful or indifferent.

Indeed, 15 insect classes have been identified, which include from 94 to 125 families. The large number of insects and the rich flora ensure food to an important number of birds: 31 species have been located in olive groves. It is inhabited both by winter birds and nesting ones. Fruit-eating birds have been noted over the winter season. The existence of the olive is, consequently, of the highest importance for many types of fauna that survive during the winter such as black birds (Turdusmerula) and starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), and migration birds en route.

The conservation of the olive grove system, in productive condition, contributes to the sustainability of the natural resources through their preservation by the maintenance of the soil, the reduction of rainfall’s losses, and their exploitation. Olive trees are drought resistant and because of their extensive rooting system are some of the few crops that can survive on only 200–300 mm of annual rainfall .Throughout the centuries, the traditional olive plantations are the kind of cultivation that maintained the productive possibility in the barren and dry Mediterranean soils, with very high erosion levels. In these terraced areas, the erosion is decreasing with the protection of the minimal soil, and the reduction of the outflow and nutrient losses, since they elongate the remaining time of rainfalls on the surface of the soil. Consequently, the terraces favor the percolation of the water in the underground waters and its appearance in lower altitude regions, in the form of spring water.

Beyond the above information, it is important to stress the notion of an ecosystem that is connected with the system of the Local Communities Of Traditional Olive Growing. It is a Value System connecting Human Activities, Natural environment, History and a Way Of Balanced Life

The trend for quality products is satisfied in this type of cultivation, since the chemical substances used for the production of olive oil are the lowest possible among not only its competitive products but among all other agricultural products of the Mediterranean. From this vantage point, even in the case of conventional cultivation of the olive, it is compatible with sustainable agriculture, and it neither consumes the natural resources, nor depreciates them. A productive olive grove is still closer to the natural eco-systems, because the interventions taking place during cultivation are very limited.

This Is The Ecosystem In Which We Live,Work & Produce Authentic Olive Goods