An Italian olive oil company is taking its first steps into the U.S. market with a distribution site at Brunswick Landing. Italian natives Julia Franchi Scarselli and her father Camillo Franchi Scarselli learned that local farmers were being forced to abandon their olive groves because of the financial hardships and unpredictability in climate conditions. This sparked the beginning of their business venture, Libellula, to assist farmers with the distribution of olive oil. 

“Libellula is a collective that provides access to resources to our farmers,” Julia Franchi Scarselli said. “We have about five farmers who are providing olive oil from their groves. We provide them with access to the market in the U.S. because alone they are only giving olive oil away to friends and family. They are not producing the quantity sufficient to have another stream of revenue, but this is providing another stream of revenue to them.”