Stories

At the cooperative we hear so many stories every day that we don’t even know where to start. Constantly, our producers provide us with detailed information about their plants and animals, scientific or political news, ideas for new projects and countless anecdotes from everyday farming life. This is the place to share our stories and thoughts one by one.
 
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Juan from Biovalle with his orange trees

Building relationships

Tierra y Libertad has always been based around relationships. The relationships between the farmer and their farm and the local community and the relationship between ...
Paco Bedoya with the morning harvest

Paco Bedoya’s farm

I love visiting Paco Bedoya’s farm for two reasons. The farm itself is wonderful, a kind of jungle of citrus trees, fruit hanging everywhere, birds ...
Juan from Biovalle with his orange trees

Building relationships

Tierra y Libertad has always been based around relationships. The relationships between the farmer and their farm and the local ...
Paco Bedoya with the morning harvest

Paco Bedoya’s farm

I love visiting Paco Bedoya’s farm for two reasons. The farm itself is wonderful, a kind of jungle of citrus ...
Composting manure next to orange trees

Pedro Castellar de la Frontera

Driving around Andalusia visiting the farmers of Tierra y Libertad I am constantly struck by the diverse landscapes. It’s true ...
A warehouse containing both large metal wine vats and old clay amphoras

The amphorae of Tierra Savia

Transcript: When we came here we said... we have to conserve the old varieties and the old forms of making ...
Jose González holding soil in his cupped hands

The search for new farmers for Tierra y Libertad

I have spent some of the last couple of weeks visiting possible new farmers to join us at Tierra y ...
Paco González standing outside

Paco Gonzalez takes his granddaughter fishing

Here is Paco Gonzalez telling a nice story about his granddaughter and the Guadalhorce river. Transcript: This is the Guadalhorce ...
A picture taken in the shade of a large old carob tree

A sacred carob tree

Visiting Carlos Márquez’s farm last week, is nestled deep in a valley just a few kilometres from the Mediterranean coast ...
Carlos Márquez showing how he places vetiver grass around a tree

Vetiver grass with Carlos Márquez

Carlos shows us how he uses vetiver grass to mulch his avocado trees. Transcript: This plant is called Vetiver. I ...
Jose González standing on a terrace

The key to reversing rural depopulation

A living countryside. A vibrant rural culture. A beautiful agro-ecological landscape. All good things that most people, whether urban, suburban ...
Jose González holding a custard apple

The most delicious fruit known to men

Mark Twain called it ‘the most delicious fruit known to men’, C.R.Markam asserted that ‘he who has not tasted this ...
Jose González standing in front of some trees

Fruit prices compared to the 1980s

Jose González of Tropicultura in Motril, talks about fruit prices now compared to the 1980s, when his grandfather was a ...
An ancient custard apple tree

The shade of the ancient custard apple tree

Story told by Jose González on Decemeber 14th 2021, edited and translated from the Spanish original. My paternal grandfather, when ...
Spanish dehesa

Farmers of 20 centuries

I am lucky enough to live in Andalusia, in Southern Spain, where I work with an amazing group of small ...
The difference between regenerative and conventional orchards

The difference between regenerative and conventional orchards

Tierra y Libertad visits Jose González at Tropicultura in Jete, province of Granada. In this video we see the stark ...