Val de la Figuera
Maella, Bajo Aragón-Caspe
OliveProducing
- Hectares
- 13
- Olive trees
- 2,860
- Variety
- Empeltre
- Joined @seis
- 2025
- Water per hectare
- 1,450
- m³ per year
- Last harvest
- 71,500
- kg of olives
Who ran it
The farm belonged to three siblings: Pilar, Antonio and Manolo. None of them had set foot on it in years. They let it out season by season to whoever turned up and each tenant worked it their own way. The grove held on because empeltre holds on, but every season it gave a little less.
What we have changed
We bought all 13 hectares and merged the boundaries. We rebuilt the drip system from top to bottom with pressure-compensating emitters, because the land slopes and the last tree was not getting what the first one got. We went over the pruning two winters running to bring the canopy down.
What it gives now
We pick here before anywhere else, the last week of October, with the fruit still green. It gives less oil per kilo and it comes out more bitter. There are 1,800 bottles and they run out.
Latest
September 2026
- 10Sept
Watering the lower plot with the new emitters
−1,690 m³
August 2026
- 19Aug
Leaf analysis for nitrogen and potassium
−€280.00
July 2026
- 8Jul
Watering by the probes at 30 and 60 cm
−2,020 m³
May 2026
- 26May
Clearing the merged boundaries
−€850.00
April 2026
- 9Apr
1,300 emitters swapped for pressure-compensating ones
−€2,470.00
February 2026
- 24Feb
Second winter of pruning to lower the canopy
−€1,640.00
November 2025
- 18Nov
Batch VF-2511 bottled, 1,800 numbered bottles
+830 kg
- 4Nov
Early harvest over
+71,500 kg
October 2025
- 27Oct
First day of harvest with the fruit still green
+9,800 kg
The map
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- Olive grove12.6 ha
- Banks and boundaries0.4 ha
- Total13 ha
What comes next
2025Done€26,000
Drip rebuilt with pressure-compensating emitters
The last tree gets the same water as the first.
2026Done€3,800
Boundaries merged and cleared
One single farm, with no closed paths between plots.
2026Under way€6,400
Moisture probes at two depths
Watering starts when moisture drops at 60 cm.
2027Planned€28,000
Inverted umbrella for the early harvest
The green fruit never touches the ground and reaches the mill whole.
From this farm
Val de la Figuera, early harvest500 ml bottle, run of 1,800
€27.50
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