Pietro's Ladder

A ladder rests comfortably on a hillside in rural Italy where olive producer, Pietro, tends his 500 year old olive trees. He still harvests the olives by hand every season with the help of neighbors and friends. He is 63 and has been tending the land and the olive trees on his property for over 30 years. He prides himself with being the only olive producer in Bellegra that chooses a fully organic method of olive harvesting. Every season’s harvest he brings his freshly picked olives to the press in Bellegra to produce the fine oil that he will share with his community. He doesn’t monetarily profit from the oil but gives it to his friends and family. He believes the value in the olives is the connection to the land and the sharing of oil