Category Archives: Crowdfarming® – Plant a tree

Plant your own tree on the plantation of Naranjas del Carmen and receive your fruits at your doorstep.

Why don’t all seedlings survive?

At Naranjas del Carmen we carry out two counts per year of all the trees that are sponsored, this is where the photo team transmits the first count of dead trees to the technical team. Afterwards, one of the agronomists of the ... Continue reading

Analysis of the EVOO of Campillo de Julia, Harvest 2023

Miguel Abad, olive oil technician and person responsible for EVOO at Campillo de Julia, has written this report on the sensory and polyphenol analysis of this year’s EVOO. Technical information Yield: sms. 38,85% ... Continue reading

Orange trees – Logbook 2022

Your orange tree, like all citrus trees, will go through four stages of development throughout its life. Infant phase The infant phase is from the time that we plant the graft up until it starts to produce. In our fields, since ... Continue reading

Citrus season 2020 / 2021

Protocol. This is the word that we have said, written, and read the most to prepare for this very special season of clementines and oranges. We have prepared ourselves to work more as a team than ever before. More coordinated than ... Continue reading

Pictures Campillo de Júlia

The brothers Gabriel (left) and Gonzalo Úrculo (right). Centenary olive trees that we are going to recover by doing a correct pruning and tilling the land. From left to right: Gonzalo, Ramón (in charge of the farm), ... Continue reading

Campillo de Júlia

At the beginning of the last decade (the year 2010) my brother and I made a decision that marked the course of our lives both on a professional and personal level: to recover our grandparents' "Masia el Carmen" garden in Bétera, ... Continue reading

The worst citrus season in our history

The title of this post sounds pessimistic but it is not. It is realistic. We are experiencing what is, without a doubt, the worst clementine and orange season in our history in terms of yield. It seems, however, that we are not the ... Continue reading

The life of an orange tree

Birth We can mark the beginning of an orange tree's life when we graft the variety we want to obtain on a rootstock. In Naranjas del Carmen since 2014 we have used rootstock patterns such as Carrizo or Forner Alcaide for new ... Continue reading

A letter of the Úrculo brothers

Citrus season 2019/2020 Naranjas del Carmen has 3 lines of action: the farming activity, which is our fundamental one, the logistics and this webpage. In this letter, we would like to inform you about the improvements we are ... Continue reading

Jardín Del Gordo

Thanks to the new cultivation model CrowdFarming all of the orange trees planted on our finca “El Carmen” have an owner. Behind every tree, there is a person or a family that maintains it, follows its evolution and receives its ... Continue reading