El Plano de Santa Bárbara
Calaceite, Matarranya
OliveProducing
- Hectares
- 17
- Olive trees
- 3,910
- Variety
- Empeltre
- Joined @seis
- 2023
- Water per hectare
- 1,500
- m³ per year
- Last harvest
- 96,900
- kg of olives
Who ran it
Ramón inherited El Plano from his father and worked it for forty-two years. At seventy-eight he was still going up on his own with the tractor. He sold every olive in bulk and the price was set for him at the weighbridge. The winter he fell and broke his hip, the farm went unpruned and the fly and the leaf spot took hold.
What we have changed
We bought 17 hectares in three blocks that touch each other. We pulled out 240 trees that had stopped giving and replanted empeltre in the same frame. We swapped the old open pond for a covered cistern and put a meter at the head. Ramón drops by every other week to see how it is going and takes his oil home.
What it gives now
With the cistern and the new trees, the 2025 season gave 96,900 kilos, at 0.18 acidity. All of it was bottled under the brand. This is where we try things out before taking them to the other farms.
Latest
September 2026
- 15Sept
Top-up watering in all three blocks
−2,550 m³
August 2026
- 27Aug
Head meter and filter serviced
−€340.00
July 2026
- 22Jul
Night watering in the week of 40 degrees
−3,060 m³
June 2026
- 11Jun
Olive fly traps in all three blocks
−€520.00
May 2026
- 6May
60 young trees replaced in block 2
−€1,380.00
March 2026
- 18Mar
Formative pruning of the replanted trees
−€1,900.00
February 2026
- 3Feb
Oil from batch PS-2601 bottled in Calaceite
+19,380 kg
December 2025
- 5Dec
Harvest over, olives delivered to the mill
+96,900 kg
November 2025
- 17Nov
Olive stones sold as boiler fuel
+€410.00
October 2025
- 28Oct
Cistern filled before winter
+2,800 m³
The map
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- Olive grove16.7 ha
- Water0.1 ha
- Buildings0.2 ha
- Total17 ha
What comes next
2023Done€7,900
240 olive trees replanted
Block 2 has its full planting frame again.
2024Done€41,000
Covered cistern in place of the old pond
No water is lost to the sun and no leaves get in.
2026Under way€5,300
A meter on every block
Each block knows how much water it uses and how much oil it gives.
2027Planned€19,500
Buried drip in block 3
Less water is lost and the tractor passes without crushing pipe.
From this farm
El Plano de Santa Bárbara500 ml bottle
€22.00
Three-farm caseThree 500 ml bottles
€58.00
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