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In recent years, environmental awareness has increased in almost all levels of the population. Issues such as climate change and the waste of water are already installed in people's everyday lives. The new ecological awareness also extends to food. Ecological or biological food is the one that is good for our health and is obtained without the use of fertilizers, pesticides or growth hormones. The Biogranja La Real has designed a perfect solution: the service to hire organic mini orchards.
The crisis "hit very hard" and affected the field of architecture, in which Manino worked and which in conjunction to his experience in trying to export olive oil to the Persian Gulf encouraged him to develop a pioneering project on the islands. A farm of over 3,000 square meters in La Real where organic mini orchards can be hired.
The employer takes the managers of Aurin & Partner, real estate experts in Mallorca, to a very entertaining tour of the Biogranja. "The idea is to reconnect people from the city to the countryside. And go back one hundred years but making use of the knowledge and the technology of today", said Manino. In times of the crisis, the idea seems to be to recover the "do it yourself" concept even regarding vegetables. You hire the orchard and what is produced on it will be introduced directly to your pantry.
Forty-four mini pitches are the key to the Biogranja la real. Two strips of land divided into four squares which recover the art of the "parades in Crestall". A system which retrieves twice the performance than the conventional farming, changing the extension of the field by almost one meter of depth", says Manino. The soil being used disposes of an organic quality label and only organic seeds and fertilizers are used.
"In this project the ground rules. Humans are used to impose but here it is the ground which sets the right time" says the entrepreneur. No more tasteless tomatoes in December. Organic farming respects the time of each vegetable and establishes a crop rotation system to ensure the productivity of the land. From selenium, (tomatoes, eggplants and peppers), over vegetables, (beans, cabbage and assets) through to chenopodiaceous and umbelliferae.
"For someone who has no idea of agriculture, ecologic farming is the easiest because it's pure common sense", he says. If you hire an organic mini orchard -- they are available as of 75 euros a month -- you will have to be more attentive to its benefits than its disadvantages. The garden workshop will help you to get started and it will be Manino González and Joan Aguiló, who will take care of your little plot. The farm itself will guarantee that all plant complies with the environmental quality label by the CBPA (Balearic Council of Ecological Agricultural Production).
In the Eco Store of the Biogranja la Real you will be able to find an alternative for everything you can imagine. You can find a wide variety of the products that are cultivated on the farm. An idea that coincides with the objective to ensure maximum freshness of the products and at the same time lower the prices by reducing their costs. The ideal customers are called "bourgeois bohemians. People with an average medium-high purchasing power". But he recognises that eating healthy is not necessarily expensive.
Your oasis of organic farming is the "Lujo Asiatico" (Asian Luxury), only minutes away from downtown Palma. A paradise that has the aim to recover the morality and common sense at the table. At the end of the day Hippocrates already told us: we are what we eat.
For further information contact the following website: www.biogranja.es
