At Campo Lisio all pesticides and herbicides were banished long ago to encourage maximum biodiversity. The farm is certified Organic but has pushed this engagement further using strictly natural fertilisers and pest repellents. Large swathes of land are also given over to mediterranean bush, others to citrus and avocado groves, pomegranate, figs, fruit trees and vegetable patches of chilis and myriad other vegetables.
Our objective is to keep planting and keep expanding our crops and products.
Monoculture is the enemy of any farm wishing to create quality as it privileges mechanisation and low costs of production, removing diversity to make way for same. The trouble with this is that it’s a godsend for pests and diseases generally and forces farmers to use chemicals and dangerous substances for consumers on their trees and crops.
Privileging bio diversity in a greater project of rewilding enables plants to fend for themselves developing their natural resistances and confusing pests with multiple essences rather than helping them by cultivating only one.
At Campo Lisio all pesticides and herbicides were banished long ago to encourage maximum biodiversity. The farm is certified Organic but has pushed this engagement further using strictly natural fertilisers and pest repellents. Large swathes of land are also given over to mediterranean bush, others to citrus and avocado groves, pomegranate, figs, fruit trees and vegetable patches of chilis and myriad other vegetables.
Our objective is to keep planting and keep expanding our crops and products.
Monoculture is the enemy of any farm wishing to create quality as it privileges mechanisation and low costs of production, removing diversity to make way for same. The trouble with this is that it’s a godsend for pests and diseases generally and forces farmers to use chemicals and dangerous substances for consumers on their trees and crops.
Privileging bio diversity in a greater project of rewilding enables plants to fend for themselves developing their natural resistances and confusing pests with multiple essences rather than helping them by cultivating only one.
Campo Lisio is an organic olive farm located in Salento, at the southern most tip of Puglia, where the land is arid, the climate demanding, and nature still untamed.
Born nearly twenty years ago from a love at first sight with a landscape rather than from an agricultural project, we cultivate olives — and exceptional products — with patience and respect, at the heart of a preserved environment shaped by Mediterranean scrubland, wild meadows, and forests.
9
Chilies varieties
1500
Planted trees
9
Chilies varieties
1500
Planted trees
A subtle and elegant extra virgin olive oil, dominated by the Leccino variety,
A more intense and structured oil made from indigenous varieties,
Chili peppers with diverse profiles, from the mildest to the hottest,
As well as avocados, figs, and many other crops.
Welcome to our garden.
