With the innovative concept: ‘Adopt an Olive Tree,’ Libellula connects consumers seeking authentic, premium-quality ingredients to olive trees in the historic Sabina region near Rome, where families are no longer able to sustain the costs of cultivation. Libellula, based in Montelibretti, Italy, is an innovative business initiative that offers a modern solution to protect the age-old practice of harvesting authentic Italian olive oil from the historic Sabina region, 20 miles from Rome. The cultivation of this olive oil, which is arguably the most flavorful in all of Italy, has become economically unsustainable due to international competition from industrially produced olive oil blends. Libellula proposes transforming the practice into a profitable enterprise. A bottle of Libellula olive oil also has a story that brings the buyer closer to the earth, history and tradition. Augustus’ agronomists selected the Sabina region to plant thousands of trees and build mills and amphorae factories for the conservation, packaging and transportation of the oil, once known as the ‘Gold of Rome.’ The olives were picked according to criteria that are still followed today, including the reading of weather cues, lunar phases and plant cycles.