Taste and use

Das macht die andalusischen Granatäpfel aus:

• Taste: Die Sorte «Mollar» ist eine eher milde und süsse Granatapfelsorte.
• Quality features: Freshly harvested, straight into your hands. These pomegranates are completely untreated.
• Use: Granatapfelkerne passen ins Müesli, gemischt mit anderen Früchten im Fruchtsalat oder als süss-saure Ergänzung auf dem Couscous. Granatäpfel können bei Zimmertemperatur problemlos einige Tage und im Kühlschrank sogar mehrere Wochen gelagert werden. Die äussere Schale verliert bei der Lagerung ihre Feuchtigkeit und wird unter Umständen schrumpelig. Die Kerne im Innern bleiben jedoch saftig.

Cultivation and ecology

This is how pomegranates are grown:

• Cultivation method: Biologische Landwirtschaft und vielfältiger Anbau. Neben Granatäpfeln werden auch Feigen, Oliven, Johannisbrot und Trauben angebaut.
• Producers: Together with his family, Manolo Jiménez Perez runs his small one-hectare organic farm in the Valle del Guadalhorce near Málaga. He is working intensively on how the scarce resource of water can be used as sparingly as possible and is working on a system to collect the naturally available moisture in the Guadalhorce Valley. He is also adapting his crops step by step to the location and climatic changes. Instead of withered avocado trees, he has planted fig trees, as well as pomegranate and carob trees, which cope comparatively well with the prevailing climate. He grows wild vines and grafts them with varieties he has selected to create plants that are as resilient as possible. Manolo also likes to experiment with symbiotic relationships between crops and learns from year to year. Manolo is a member of Guadalhorce Ecológico, a cooperative that has joined Tierra y Libertad, our partner cooperative in Andalusia.

This is how the price is made up

Cultivation & processing CHF 14.00

• Cultivation, harvesting and packing: Manolo Jiménez Perez, Kooperative Tierra y Libertad

Transport & logistics CHF 9.38

• Transportation, quality assurance, packaging: CTM Agrofair, freight forwarders, customs

Procurement & distribution CHF 10.02

• Organization, communication, online market: Crowd Container