Instead of settling into retirement at 72, Nan Tucker McEvoy chose to follow an unchartered course and established an agrarian enterprise in 1991. After purchasing the 550-acre former dairy farm, the entrepreneur promptly flew in one of Italy’s foremost agronomists and oenologists, Maurizio Castelli, who recommended cultivars that would flourish in the verdant terrain of the area. Despite locals discouraging her plans, Nan important a thousand Tuscan variety olive seedlings, and now McEvoy ranch prospers as one of the country’s leading makers of estate-grown, certified-organic extra-virgin olive oil.
