You order your share before the harvest and pay in advance – exactly when the money is needed in the grove: for nets, wages and harvest preparations. Once the oil is pressed and bottled, you receive your share. A full share is 6 litres (two 3-litre tins), but you can also start with a single tin.

After the harvest, as soon as the oil has been pressed and bottled – expected between December and March. We announce the exact date via our newsletter and under News.

This applies to everything: almonds, currants, sultanas and oregano reach you together with the oil. We don’t ship individual items ahead of that – that way there is one parcel instead of several.

The nicest way to get your oil: we meet, taste the fresh oil together, share news from the project – and you take your share home with you. We host pickup days in Hamburg, Munich and at the Gröönlandhof in East Frisia. Choose the “Pickup” tab at checkout and pick your location – it’s free of charge. Exact dates and locations are announced in good time via our newsletter and under News.

We ship within Germany – from €8.90, staggered by weight; you’ll see the exact amount at checkout. We currently do not ship abroad. If you collect your order in Hamburg, Munich or at the Gröönlandhof, there are no shipping costs. All details on the Shipping & Payment page.

Cool, dark and well sealed – the tin protects the oil from light anyway. 14–18 °C is ideal. When stored cool, the oil may flocculate – that’s a sign of quality and disappears again at room temperature.

Olive oil stays fresh particularly long in tins. Our olive oil easily keeps for 1.5 to 2 years. Olive oil matures during storage: while the young oil is still quite wild (in terms of aromas, that is), the more mature oil becomes milder over time.

Protect the oil from light and heat during storage; the ideal temperature is 14–18 °C. It’s also important to avoid prolonged contact with oxygen – so always close the tin or bottle right after use.

We thought long and hard about packaging – ideally we would sell loose oil, which is not permitted for olive oil in Germany. In the end we chose the – quite classic – tinplate canister.

Tinplate has a recycling rate of around 95% in Germany (it is easy to separate from waste), its production requires far less energy than aluminium, for example, and there are decades of experience with how it behaves in contact with food.

The outer packaging matches: we ship in grass-paper cartons and cushion with starch chips that dissolve in water.

Packaging is always a compromise – we believe the tinplate canister is the best possible path in terms of sustainability while protecting the oil from sunlight and oxygen.

Farming according to Rudolf Steiner’s principles: the farm is understood as a self-contained organism – soil, plants, animals and people working together, with as little intervention as possible and without synthetic fertilisers or pesticides. The Kontogiannis family has worked this way since 2006.

Yes! Nothing changes about the model: one grove, one family, one personal relationship – with harvest shares, pre-financing, pickup days and direct donations. The people behind it remain the same, too: Urte and Ralf. What’s new is “only” the place: from the 2026/27 harvest, our oil comes from the Kontogiannis family farm near Corinth on the Peloponnese.

After many shared years with our first partner farmer Prokopis, that chapter is coming to an end – we are grateful for the time together and everything that grew from it. In the Kontogiannis family we have found a new partner who has farmed strictly biodynamically since 2006. Read more in our post “A New Leaf”.

Yes – and we’re looking forward to it. A new grove, new varieties, a different terroir: the oil of the 2026/27 harvest will have a character of its own, shaped by the soil and climate of the Peloponnese. The same care, a new taste – and we’ll discover it together with you.

It continues! We are developing it further together with the Kontogiannis family at its new home, so that the olive grove can keep serving pupils as an open place of learning on the Peloponnese.

For donations of €50 or more, the non-profit association Platanenblatt e.V. will promptly send you a donation receipt. For smaller amounts (up to €200), German tax offices accept your bank statement as proof.

The non-profit association Platanenblatt e.V. collects donations that fund the free place of learning in the olive grove. In addition, direct donations from the sale of Platanenblatt olive oil flow to the association. This financial support goes to the Free Place of Learning in the Olive Grove.

More on the page The Association.

In many Greek villages, a plane tree has stood on the central square for generations. Under its wide canopy people met, exchanged news, celebrated and spent the hottest hours of the day in the shade. So the plane tree became far more than a tree: it became the centre of village life – a sign of community, constancy and home.

Some of these trees have accompanied their villages for centuries. Generations come and go. The tree remains.

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