Our first olive harvest was in December 2025.  We washed & milled the olives and bottled the oil on site.  English Olive Oil purchases are made exclusively from this website.

2025 harvest is now SOLD OUT.

Weather dependant, we hope to have new stock from our next harvest, available December 2026.

Our 2025 English Olive Oil has been sent off you analysis to see if it has made the Extra Virgin criteria. As soon as we get the results we will post them here. More info on Extra Virgin can be found on FAQ ‘what does extra virgin actually mean?’). EVOO’s favourable qualities include aroma, fruitiness, bitterness, pungency.  Trained tasting panels measure the intensity of these characteristics.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil, EVOO, is defined as having good flavour and odour by the International Olive Council.  To be classed as ‘extra virgin’, an olive oil must have a medium of flaws of zero and a median of fruitiness of more than zero.  EVOO has the lowest fatty acid concentration of any olive oil, with oleic acid levels of less than 0.8 grams per 100 grams.  In addition to the fatty acid level, EVOO must have a peroxide oxygen per kilogram of less than or equal to 20, demonstrating the lack of oxidation and the greater the freshness from harvest to milling and pressing time.

All of our olive oil is fully traceable to the row of trees it was grown on in our olive grove.  Each variety is harvested separately, with the varieties kept separated or blended together for taste.  The oil batch number and best before label is located underneath the bottle. There is nothing added to the process, just cold pressed olives to give great tasting olive oil.

Our English Olive Oil is not organic, but has been sustainably produced without the use of insecticides and fungicides. In addition to seaweed extracts and natural minerals, we do use some man-made nutrition when needed. All nutrition is precisely applied to each tree by trickle fertigation pipes. Please see the ‘Sustainability’ tab for more location details.

All of The English Olive Co oil comes from our own 18,000 olive tree grove in Lincolnshire.  The Hoyles family have been farming in The Fens for over 250 years, and planted their first olive grove in 2024.  It is from these olive trees on the family farm that our olives are harvested, pressed and the oil bottled.  See the ‘Olives & Us’ tab for more information.

Olive trees have survived the UK climate for many years, but there were no commercial olive groves for olive oil production until The English Olive Co planted its first grove of 18,000 trees in spring 2024.  Olive tree varieties have been chosen with frost tolerance and varying flowering times from areas around Europe to try and give the trees the best chance of flowering and then producing olives for harvest.  With a little bit of luck from the weather we hope that some to all varieties planted in the grove will produce olives in time!

Tours to the olive grove and your opportunity to taste the different variety olive oils will hopefully be starting in 2027.  We will let people know via our social media channels as soon as we know when tours and tastings will be available.

The olives are mechanically harvested by combs from the trees, and are then transported to the mill as soon as possible.  The olives are washed and rinsed at the mill, and then ground to a paste.  The paste is crushed and then gently stirred and oil droplets form.  The stirred paste is then transferred to a centrifuge which separates the oil from the water and pomice (solid waste).  The oil is then filtered and stored in stainless steel tanks ready for bottling.

Yes!  Olive oil and olives are the original superfood!  They are rich in Vitamin E, and also contain Vitamin A, Copper, Calcium and Iron.  Olives are antioxidants and anti-inflammatory, and are used to help reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease and bone disease, and improve skin health and your immune system.  See ‘Olives & Us’ tab for more information.

Olive oil is the most consumed oil in the world, with the Spanish and Greeks consuming over 14 L of olive oil per person per year.  In the UK olive oil consumption is rising, but we still only consume less than 1L of olive oil per person per year!  It is suggested that 1 to 2 tablespoons (15-30ml) of olive oil per day will help you achieve the many health benefits.

An olive tree will begin producing fruit at about three years old.  The tree generally flowers in May/June and the flowers then turn into fruit, and the fruit grows through the summer months.  The olives are then harvested in the autumn.  It can take eight to ten years for an olive tree to reach its full fruiting potential, but once at its potential, if the tree is well managed and well looked after they can fruit for hundreds of years.

Green olives and black olives are the same fruit; black olives are simply left on the tree to mature for longer and change to a darker purple-black colour.  Green olives, being less ripe, are generally more bitter.  Black olives, being riper, are generally fruitier.  Different olive tree varieties have different taste characteristics and health properties.

Our olive trees are grown in long lines to maximise light interception and enable mechanical harvesting of the olives.  The trees are planted facing north-south, so that the sun can rise above them with the least amount of shade being made.  The optimum spacing of olive trees for olive oil production in the UK is not known, so we have planted some at differing spacing to see how they will perform.

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