Organic chickpeas from BioVallega, Spain | Crowdfarming: adopt a chickpea field

organic chickpeas

BioVallega

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The project

What do you adopt?

What will you receive?

When will you receive it?

Why should you adopt?

The project

Adopt {publicVariety} from the orchard "{farmName}" in {cityfarm} ({countryFarm}) and receive your harvest in the form of {production} at home. The Farmer {farmerName} will take care of your adoption and take its picture. Also, you will be able to download the adoption certificate and, if you wish, plan your visit to the farm. You do not enter into any long-term commitment: once you receive your harvest and you enjoyed the experience, you may decide to renew and extend the adoption.

The project

What do you adopt?

Adopt 80m2 of our organic chickpea field and receive chickpeas directly at home. Organic farming. You can download the corresponding certificate in the section of seals below.

What will you receive?

5 x organic chickpeas (1kg paper bags) Variety “Amelia”: They are small, round chickpeas characterised by their very marked cotyledons and pointed tips. They have a light brown, orangish colour with slightly marked creases. This chickpea is similar to the “Pedrosillano” variety, the smallest within the varieties of chickpeas but also the most appreciated for its buttery and intense flavor. Once cooked the “Pedrosillano” chickpea perfectly retains its shape and its skin does not peel. Our chickpea is grown dry and organic so that few water and nitrogen is necessary. Hence, you will need to soak them all night and cook them longer than usual.

When will you receive it?

Please, check the deadline for participating in this project (deadline for adoption) below. As of this date the Farmer will start preparing the orders that are to be shipped. You may select the delivery date of your box as suggested by the Farmer at check-out.

Why should you adopt?

* Learn who produces your food, how and where. Receive your food in a conscious manner. * Buy directly from the farmer. Help to generate wealth and better jobs in the rural areas. * Plan ahead and enable the Farmer to produce on demand. This way we can avoid overproduction and fight food waste. * Reward Farmers who make an effort to use environmentally-friendly packaging and cultivation techniques.

How does it work?

Meet the Farmers

Adopt and plan your harvest

Let the Farmer and nature work

Receive your harvest at home

Luis Ballesteros

I am a farmer by conviction, all my previous generations, or at least those I can remember, have dedicated themselves to agriculture. My son Tales also wants to follow in the footsteps of the agricultural tradition and we entered this adventure together. We believe that conventional agriculture based on synthesis chemistry is damaging our land, the environment, biodiversity and our health, so in 2008 we decided to initiate the change and began to certify our plots in Organic Farming. We combined the traditional techniques and advice from our grandparents with the collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Madrid to move our crops forward. As a result of this collaboration, we participated in the LIFE+ Crops for better Soil project, whose objective was to demonstrate that organic farming methods can return carbon content to vulnerable soils and make them economically viable again. The project started in 2011 and was awarded the 2018 Green Awards. During the five years of the project we were able to gain very satisfactory knowledge that gives us the security to offer our products with full guarantees. We join CrowdFarming for a fair price for our product and to save both economic and energy costs. I am worried about the future of my profession because climate change generates many unknowns: will we be able to stop it?

Luis Ballesteros

“We live off the land and for the land so that many more generations can say the same thing. I am a lifelong farmer. My father taught me how to work and love the countryside since I was a child. In my environment they call me “Pincheto”, a common name for the goldfinch in my land. My main hobby is caring for my hives. I currently have 120 LANGSTROTH hives scattered throughout the nearby mountains where I produce Alcarria honey. The hives barely move from their settlement except to pollinate our own crops (chickpeas, almonds...).”

BioVallega

The name “BioVallega” consists of two parts: “Bio” refers to the fact that all the plots we cultivate have been certified in Organic Agriculture since 2008 and “Vállega” refers to an Andalusian settlement on the Tagus River near our village. We are located in Illana, within the region of La Alcarria in the south of the central Iberian plateau. It is an area where dry crops alternate with small orchards around the numerous rivers and streams that run through it. Apart from the crops, the presence of slopes, hills and cliffs near the streams favours the presence of a great diversity of aromatic flora which has led to the introduction of apiaries in the area a while ago.

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BioVallega, Illana, ES

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