Sixth-generation Lebanese olive oil producers Noura and Gus launched The BAAL Project in 2021 to make small-batch extra virgin olive oil and olive oil soap from their family’s North Lebanon groves. The family’s 200-year-old trees are hand-harvested, with olives pressed within hours and the oil bottled in Lebanon, while recovered olives and soap shavings help keep the process low-waste. Based in New York and made with family-grown Lebanese olives, BAAL also supports the preservation of Lebanon’s olive-oil heritage and sustainable farming traditions.
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LiokareasFor more than five generations, the Liokareas family has grown, hand-picked, and pressed Koroneiki olives into Greek extra-virgin olive oil on its family-owned orchard in the foothills of Southern Kalamata. The company still uses old-world methods and simple hand tools, while its distinctive Rx high-phenolic oil has earned repeated awards in international health and olive-oil competitions. From its Pittsburgh roots, Liokareas also carries the family’s Greek harvest traditions to customers through specialty oils and pantry goods.BETHEL PARK, PA
FLOR DE LA JARARooted in a three-generation olive-growing family, Jorge and Tiffany produce premium extra virgin olive oil from their family orchard in Spain’s La Jara region. FLOR DE LA JARA hand-harvests its olives and cold-presses them within the family, offering the latest harvest in oils that preserve the character of the Mediterranean grove.New York, NY
Deliba Olive OilSince 1967, the Cosmano family has grown, pressed and shipped single-estate extra virgin olive oil from Molochio in Calabria, Southern Italy. Deliba’s two native Calabrian oils are cold-extracted within four hours of harvest, with harvest dates, lot details and independent laboratory reports made public for each batch. The family also manages the route to U.S. customers through its own import and distribution company.7008, NY
Ciccio's OlivesCiccio’s Olives brings its family’s Calabrian olive oil from the Pugliano groves in Vena di Maida to tables in West Reading and beyond. Family owned and operated, the company produces unfiltered, single-origin Carolea extra virgin olive oil and has followed the farm-to-table chain—from farmer and producer to importer and retailer—for three generations. Alongside the oil, Ciccio’s shares Southern Italian food traditions through private pasta classes, artisan goods, and small-group trips hosted in Calabria.WEST READING, PA