La Posta di Confine
organic cultivation of olives
Photo: The façade of the farm.
the olive trees and the "green gold"
La Posta di Confine is part of an estate that includes the farmhouse, the buildings reserved to guests, a large garden, a swimming pool, a parking area within the fence.
Farmhouse La Posta di Confine rises on a hill covered with secular olive trees producing olives of the variety "Dolce Agocia". Beside the old trees, other plants produce olives of the cultivars Leccino, Moraiolo and Frantoio.
These varieties of olives are pressed to obtain the DOP (i.e. Protected Denomination of Origin) “Umbria” Extra-virgin Olive Oil, geographically mentioned “Colli del Trasimeno”.
Photo: A hundred years old olive tree - Extra-virgin Olive Oil "Dago" - Pruning of olive trees.
The secular olive trees have been recovered to a complete production so that the old cultivars can give the final product its typical taste.
The manual olive picking and their prompt pressing assure the quality of the oil and the unique flavour of “green grass” that reminds us the smell of the fresh-scythed meadows.
Photo: Signs of country life.
La Posta di Confine is embellished with stone sculptures by Lucio Chiurulla from Perugia.
The owners are pleased to lead the guests to visit the estate and particularly the collection of the old farm tools kept in a room of the main bulding.
Guests can be told about the vicissitudes of life of the people who inhabited the farm, with their hard or happy moments.
Photos: Farm tools collection - barrels, scales, sieves and a corking tool.