Our background as organic farmers and livestock-rearers can be traced back to 1994, when we began using Organic Agricultural and Livestock-rearing methods under the supervision and certification of the Andalusian Committee for Organic Farming (CAAE).
In 2000 we built the on-site almazara in order to produce, process and pack our Organically Produced Extra Virgin olive oil, drawn exclusively from our very own olives.
Beginnings of the brand
The name “Olivar de la Luna” refers to the dry-farmed, 200-year-old mountain olive trees from which our olives are harvested.
“Olivar de la Luna” began life as a simple tribute to all those men and women across the ages who ensured that olive groves could thrive on the Sierra Morena.
The inhospitable, rugged and impossibly beautiful terrain of the Sierra Morena has in the past been a favoured sanctuary for bandits and political refugees. In a bid to put a stop to this situation, King Carlos III passed a law which enabled anyone who marked out, cleared and planted olive trees on a area of the Sierra Morena to become that plot’s rightful owner.
Faced with the alluring prospect of having their own property, many people headed deep into the Sierra Morena to tackle this arduous task.
However, a lack of economic resources meant that many were forced to toil on other people’s properties, in exchange for a subsistence wage, as well as working on their own plot of land.
The same olive trees which survive today, silently grateful for all those years of toil.
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