What grows here, and how we keep it alive.

The farm sits in a frost-free pocket between the Serra Gelada and the sea: warm enough for avocado and mango, dry enough that water decides everything. This page follows the real calendar, so it changes as the year does.

Picked one at a time, because that is the only way it can be done.

Nothing here comes off the tree by machine.

A 250 ml bottle of Foia Blanca orange juice on a stone plinth, oranges beside it

Tree to glass

Orange juice

Not every orange is basket-shaped. The ones that split, that mark, that ripen faster than we can send them — those are the ones that get pressed. Same morning, whole fruit, nothing added and nothing taken out.

Which is why there is only juice while there are oranges. It starts in November and it stops in June.

Bottle
250 ml
Pressed
The morning it is picked
Added
Nothing
Season
November – June
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August — Summer

Estiu

The hard season. Four months without meaningful rain. We water at dawn, keep the soil covered, and dry what we can in the sun.

Coming off the trees and beds

  • BananasPlataner· the sheltered corner, watered all year
  • FigsFiga· second crop — Coll de Dama
  • WatermelonMeló de l'aigua· cut cold, first thing
  • Muscat grapesRaïm moscatell
  • AlmondsAmetla
  • CarobGarrofa
  • TomatoesTomaca· at its peak
  • PeppersPebrera
  • MelonMeló

Going into the ground

  • Artichoke offsetsCarxofa
  • Brassica seedCol i bròquil
  • LettuceEnciam
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What we are actually doing out there this season.

Watering at dawn only

Reg de matinada

Drip lines run before sunrise. Watering in daylight loses a large share to evaporation and scorches wet leaves under this sun.

Deficit irrigation

Reg deficitari

Citrus and medlar get water at the two moments that matter — fruit set and swelling — and nothing extra. It roughly halves the water for a small loss in yield.

Shade from the vine

El parral

Muscat over the patio pergola. Full shade in August, bare in January when the sun is welcome, and a grape harvest on top. No structure does more work.

Drying in the sun

Assecar al sol

Ñora peppers, figs and muscat raisins are dried outdoors the way the pansa was dried in the riuraus of this comarca. No energy, and it keeps through winter.

Antonio in the lemons. Two varieties, so there are lemons most of the year.

Two varieties, so the tree is never empty for long.

Every plant on this farm sits in one of three water tiers.

It is the first question asked before anything is planted, and the reason the farm looks the way it does.

Dryland

Secà

0 mm after year three

Lives on rainfall alone once established. Lower yield, zero cost, and it survives any drought we are likely to see.

Carob, almond, olive, fig, pomegranate, jujube, capers, herbs

Support

Reg de suport

150–300 mm

Watered only at fruit set and swelling. Roughly half the water of conventional irrigation for most of the yield.

Citrus, medlar, quince, table grapes

Constant

Reg constant

500–800 mm

Drip all year, and kept deliberately small. This is the tier that decides whether the water budget works.

Vegetable beds, avocado, mango, cherimoya

Cut the same day. Fruit that ripened on the tree needs nothing doing to it.

This is the whole supply chain.

There is no empty month.

Between citrus in winter, medlars in spring, figs and grapes in summer and pomegranates in autumn, something is always coming off.

January

Hivern

Oranges · Mandarins · Lemons · Avocado · Cherimoya · Olives · Chard & spinach

February

Hivern

Oranges · Mandarins · Lemons · Avocado · Broad beans · Artichokes · Cauliflower & broccoli

March

Primavera

Medlars · Oranges · Mandarins · Avocado · Peas · Artichokes

April

Primavera

Medlars · Oranges · Lemons · Avocado · Broad beans · Lettuce & escarole

May

Primavera

Medlars · Apricots · Oranges · Lemons · Capers · Potatoes

June

Estiu

Breba figs · Apricots · Garlic · Tomatoes · Courgette · Capers

July

Estiu

Tomatoes · Peppers · Aubergine · Melon & watermelon · Green beans · Avocado

August

Now

Bananas · Figs · Watermelon · Muscat grapes · Almonds · Carob · Tomatoes · Peppers · Melon

September

Tardor

Pomegranates · Figs · Muscat grapes · Jujube · Almonds & carob · Alficòs

October

Tardor

Persimmon · Pomegranates · Mango · Oranges · Sweet potato · Squash

November

Tardor

Olives · Persimmon · Cherimoya · Oranges · Mandarins · Pomegranates

December

Hivern

Oranges · Mandarins · Lemons · Olives · Kumquat · Chard & spinach