Taste and use

That's what makes these Andalusian green olives so special:

• Taste: Purist green olives. Whole, with stone, preserved in brine. They are crunchy to the bite and still taste greenish tart.
• Quality features: These olives are exclusively de-bittered in brine. This process takes up to a year, but has the advantage that many of the olive's positive properties are retained. The slight bitter note indicates that the healthy polyphenols are still present in the olive.
• Use: Enjoy these olives as an aperitif or as an ingredient in your kitchen.

Cultivation and ecology

This is how the olives are grown:

• Cultivation method: Organic farming. Old olive groves with year-round ground cover.
• Producers: Begoña Cosín and Rafael García and Rafael's siblings have taken over the 14-hectare olive grove near Córdoba from Rafael's father and started to cultivate it according to agroecological principles. They are not only concerned about respectful cultivation, but also about marketing: they want short and transparent supply chains and direct contact with consumers. Rafael founded Tierra y Libertad, our partner cooperative in Andalusia, together with a small group of like-minded producers in 2018. They have now been able to lease additional land near their home in the Sierra de Aracena for the table olives. They are processed without additives at the nearby organic-certified family business "El Mesto" near Córdoba.

This is how the price is made up

Cultivation & processing CHF 2.84

• Cultivation and harvesting, processing: Olivo Vivo, El Mesto
• Processing: Bioromancel, Tierra y Libertad

Transport & logistics CHF 2.01

• Export and logistics: Unilogistics
• Fees: Customs
• Quality assurance: Laboratory
• Packaging: Zurich plant
• Shipping: Post

Procurement & distribution CHF 1.79

• Coordination, communication, online market: Crowd Container