Alex Subrizi
Harvest 2024 (part 2)
Fallen telephone cables notwithstanding, we managed to pull 590 kg of olives from around 200 of our trees today, bringing the total...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 64 min read
The Election
I could wait a day or three and pepper this post with links to any number of articles that will soon appear in some of my favorite...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 315 min read
Harvest 2024 (part 1)
Halloween harvest! As I wrote in an update to my recent Oak tree down post, this year we're splitting our harvest across two dates, nine...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 245 min read
AI Me! (with NotebookLM)
Anyone remember Super Size Me ? In 2004, Morgan Spurlock, an independent documentary filmmaker went on an all-McDonald's diet for a month...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 204 min read
Oak tree down in our valley
...along with a roadside telephone pole in our upper olive grove, and four massive wooden poles between the two snapped like toothpicks...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 185 min read
Limping high, running low
A little over three years ago I wrote my Zauber post , thanking Poggiosole's many German guests for their patronage and praising...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 122 min read
World Central Kitchen
It's late to be getting around to naming our summer beneficiary for 2024. Not as much a matter of indecision as the odd grind this year...
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Alex Subrizi
May 243 min read
Remembering Lilia
When I think of my mom's life journey: born in 1930, the first of three children of two unskilled laborers, growing up in war-ravaged...
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Alex Subrizi
Feb 53 min read
Vittorio
Taking on the stewardship of hundreds of olive trees when you've spent most of your working life in front of a computer (in my case...
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Alex Subrizi
Jan 105 min read
Kickstart us!
Go for it! Poggiosole is on Kickstarter with our tasty extra virgin olive oil, raising funds for expert pruning and the purchase of a...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Immediate family
Pictured is my son Max, age 7, a week ago at bedtime. Moments earlier, the usual mini-drama to wind up the day, urging and cajoling him...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 15, 20233 min read
Va-va-va-Vrbo* (and villa rant)
A while back, I was making my way through Milan's ugly Malpensa airport when I saw a giant and very handsome billboard advertising Vrbo...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 3, 20232 min read
Black-out (revisited)
In contrast to last year, our lights (and water pumps) stayed on all through this past summer. A still happier contrast is that between...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Lovepop
Tuscan soil is loaded with stones (that's one reason most older houses here are made of them) and recent digging in our upper grove ...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 24, 20233 min read
Thanksgiving (plus 24)
This Thanksgiving weekend we're planting two dozen olive saplings in our upper grove. Some fill random gaps in rows of mature trees....
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 11, 20232 min read
Last days
I turned sixty today. My mom Lilia, who all those years ago brought me into this world, turned, instead, away. At ninety-three, she was...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 29, 20233 min read
Harvest 2023
Over the course of two days, ending this evening as dusk turned to dark, we pulled 1049 kilos of gorgeous Frantoio , Leccino , Leccione ...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 20, 20232 min read
Ripe under rain
It's been pouring, in stretches, three days on. We were promised this; we know better than to bank on such predictions . But when...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 17, 20233 min read
Our lower grove
As noted in an earlier post , we're in the process of breathing new life into portions of our olive grove that have been sitting...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 16, 20236 min read
Gaza
It feels superfluous, even inappropriate, to comment on recent events in and near Gaza. But as a man whose parents were still children as...
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