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In Sicily , a farmer walks between his trees . The ground under his feet is black rock . It is old lava from the volcano . Above him , Mount Etna smokes in the sky . Etna is taller than every other active volcano in Europe . It is about 3,300 meters tall . In 2013 , UNESCO added Etna to its World Heritage list . The farmer lives in Bronte , a town on the west side of Etna . His trees give the pistachio . People call this nut green gold . It has a special quality label , DOP . The pistachio trees stand in a field of hard lava . Their roots go down into cracks in the black rock . Farmers pick the nuts only every two years . In the other years , the trees rest . In 1669 , its lava came down to the city of Catania . But the mountain also gives . Its ash makes very rich soil for the farms . Today Bronte grows most of the pistachios in Italy . The nuts sell at a very high price . The farmer looks across his field at the smoking mountain . He holds his green gold in his hands .
