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This new drop of outstanding extra virgin olive oil, now live in more than 150 Waitrose stores around the country, is a whole new oil from a whole new region for us. And we just can’t wait to share it with you... At Citizens of Soil, we source small-batch extra virgin olive oils from women across the Mediterranean who are farming in a more sustainable way. We’re trying to not only to excite people around olive oils—but also champion the farmers that do them right. And then expand with more f...

Prepare to be blown away by this flavour pairing. Sweet, fragrant mango with rich, grassy extra virgin olive oil—a dessert you won't stop thinking about. Time to get your hands on some seasonal mangos! Ok, but what is the craze all about? Well, the Alphonso variety is available only for a very short period of time each year and it has got a superior texture and flavour—you can literally taste the sun. Though not local, it is one of our favourite ultra-seasonal fruits and such a big treat. Th...

Being based in a concrete jungle (like London) it is quite easy not to pay attention to nature around us. But as Robin Wall Kimmerer points out in her book Braiding Sweetgrass: “Names are the way we humans build relationships, not only with each other but with the living world.” If you do not know the names of the living beings around you—you have virtually no relationship with them and they get filtered out of your perception. And if you have no relationship with something, why would yo...

Call it "climate-smart", "carbon farming", "land restoration", or simply "regenerative", these practices are all about a creating harmony with nature that starts with soil and builds resilience from the ground up.   Spring is in the air, but unfortunately—so is the CO2... As the fields are turned over and the new planting of crops begins, research shows that higher levels of carbon are released into the air (as shown by this NASA visualisation which we first came across in the Kiss The Groun...

  It may look like your good ol’ matcha, but don’t be deceived! This is something else. The grassy notes of an early harvest extra virgin olive oil pair beautifully with the mild bitterness and earthiness of matcha to create a truly rich, velvety smooth drink.  Not to mention that it truly is an antioxidant bomb! You may have seen the Starbucks news about olive oil in coffee. Well, we tried it and wrote a whole blog post on it. We also started testing some recipes, and after talking wit...