The Ferrara Brothers Farms (Aziende Agricole Ferrara) date way back to the 1700’s when the two Ferrara brothers, Giambattista and Vincenzo, acquired from the Duke of Calabritto, a nobleman from Naples , a flock of sheep, including the right to return each year to the Locone Post, an old fixed livestock post in the Tavoliere plain in the Puglia region.
After the unification of Italy (1860), the land was acquired and the cultivation of olive trees started in that period, when the estate was of 970 hectares (about 2500 acres) . About 90 years later, after World War II, the agrarian reform reduced it to 244 hectares (610 acres), a cut of 75%.
Around the 1970’s, the owner, Giambattista Ferrara, increased the orchard to today’s dimension; presently, there are 2.000 ultracentennial trees and 12.000 trees aging between 50 and 70 years.