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Extra Virgin Olive oil on the island<\/strong> The mill and the Extra Virgin Olive oil<\/strong> The mill is a small two-stage machine (i.e., it releases oil and wet pomace) made by the Mori Tem<\/strong> company.<\/p>\n The olives, cultivated according to organic farming principles, are harvested in mid-September when they are still green, an essential requirement to obtain high quality oil and to avoid rather common and deadly diseases such as the olive fly.<\/p>\n Since the mill is rather small, with a pressing capacity of 80 kg per hour, production costs are also very high, but the result is impressive. In fact, Ktima Marco\u2019s evo oil has undergone and brilliantly passed the evaluation and tasting procedures by a panel of experts, and these are the identity cards issued year after year.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_fullwidth_slider module_class=”et_fullscreen_slider” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ background_enable_video_mp4=”off”][et_pb_slide heading=”Extra Vergin Olive Oil” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_font_size=”44px” background_image=”http:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Frantoio.jpeg” background_enable_image=”on” video_url__hover_enabled=”off|desktop” sticky_transition=”on”][\/et_pb_slide][\/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.8em” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Extra Virgin Olive oil on the islandAlonnisos is covered in olive trees and oil is as much a vocation as wine. Ktima Marco is currently the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ktimamarco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Alonnisos is covered in olive trees and oil is as much a vocation as wine. Ktima Marco is currently the only producer on Alonnisos licensed to produce, bottle, label and sell extra virgin olive oil. There is a social cooperative on the island, whose mill produces oil for internal use and consumption only. As part of Ktima Marco\u2019s social project, as of 2022, residents and foreigners who own a house on the island and thus, necessarily, olive trees (building plots on Alonnisos are invariably located in olive groves), have the opportunity to bring their olives to be pressed at Ktima Marco\u2019s oil mill and receive part of the oil in labelled bottles in return. In this way trees that would otherwise be left to themselves are cared for and the fruit is not wasted.<\/p>\n
The production centre is located in Gerakas, in the north of Alonnisos, and was built from an old Kalivi<\/strong>, a small traditional shelter used by farmers during harvest days, when hard work and distance made it impossible to go back and forth by mule every day.<\/p>\n