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In the Matarraña there are more olive trees than hands to pick them

Valderrobres with its castle and stone bridge among the olive groves of the Matarraña

Draft. This piece will follow a year in the Matarraña for the people who stay: the pruning, the November harvest, the village mill and what a kilo of olives fetches.

Nerea Bel unloads crates of freshly picked olives at the Calaceite olive mill at dusk

We will talk to Nerea in Calaceite and to Marta and Lluís, who look after thousand-year-old trees in Valderrobres. It will explain how many farms are left with nobody each year and what happens to a farm when no one takes it on.

Neighbours help Marta Pallarés pick olives among ancient trees with Valderrobres behind

It will end with what changes in a village when a farm gives work again: the school, the bar and the shop.

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