Pomegranates
(5kg)

Pomegranates (5kg box) | Naranjas del Carmen

Every fruit has an average weight of 400-800g. You'll receive a total of 9 - 12 pieces in your box.

We cultivate two different varieties:

Mollar (September): intense sweet flavour; rounded and flattened shape; medium-large size; pink to pale red colour; coarse pod with very fine skin and a small, juicy, deep red seed

Wonderful (October): acidic tase; medium-large and round; very deep red colour, both inside and outside; small and semi-hard arils (seeds)

Pomegranates don't continue ripening after harvest, so they must be picked fully ripe to ensure the best quality for consumption.
The first pomegranates of the Mollar variety are picked the second week of September until October. The Wonderful variety arrives in the month of October. When you receive them, eat the ripest ones first.

In the early morning of the shipment day we go to the fields to pick the pomegranates. We harvest those with the perfect maturity level so that they arrive safe and sound. Afterwards, we put them into a box with recycled material, without any plastic. In the afternoon of the same say, our transport partner comes and picks them up.

When they arrive, consume the ripe fruits first.

Pomegranates Mollar: El Verger de Alicia

In May 2021, we took up a new challenge: to convert El Verger de Alicia to organic farming. It’s an orange, clementine and pomegranate tree orchard belonging to Benjamin, a 72-year-old neighbouring farmer. After a few months looking for funding, the bank granted us a loan and we signed the sale contract at a notary office in Valencia. We’ve already begun the change to organic farming and we’ve convinced Benjamin to keep coming to help us.

Pomegranates Wonderful: Huerto de Ana

Ana is the agricultural engineer of Naranjas del Carmen and as such directs the cultivation on the plantation. However, agriculture is not only her work, but also her life. In 2016, she decided to buy a small plantation near Naranjas del Carmen, wich she named "Huerto de Ana". Together with her husband and their two sons she practices a very natural agriculture without using any herbicides or pesticides. The fruits of their hard work they harvest every year in October in form of pomegranates.