Balearic Islands
Mallorca and Menorca have another face away from the beach. Fields with dry-stone walls, carob trees, black pigs and cows grazing in walled pastures.
That inland island is running out of people to work it. The hotels pay more than the land, and the country houses are sold off as summer lets.
Xisca left a hotel front desk to come back to her father. Joana kept her mother's dairy going. Aina keeps her grandfather's oven lit.
Who works here
Xisca y Biel Oliver
Sa Pleta Negra · Porreres
Father and daughter who raise Mallorcan black pigs roaming free among the carob trees.
Joana Pons
Sa Vinyeta Vella · Es Migjorn Gran
She makes Mahón the way her mother did, squeezing the cloth by hand.
Aina Ramis
Forn de Sa Creu · Algaida
She gave up fine art so her grandfather's oven would stay lit.
