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In News, Ralda & Friends Project
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Even if the Brits have voted for the Brexit, in Ralda+Friends we have decided to do the opposite because we love Europe J. We are continuously looking for new ways to share the taste and culture of the Mediterranean with our friends from all around Europe. In that sense, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the outreach of our operations to new countries. Thanks to agreements with Spanish Correos and Mondial Relay, any citizen from the following new countries will be able to adopt our olive trees and buy our products directly from our web page: ANDORRA...

In Cinema, News
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Last June, Spanish Film Director Iciar Bollain released the movie “The Olive Tree” (“El Olivo”). Critics have celebrated the film for its excellent actors’ works and the emotional script. Fot this reason Ralda+Friends truly encourages all our friends to go watch the movie to the cinema. However we want to raise a relevant topic that Ms. Bollain used to build her analogy on the recent financial and economic crisis and the story of this Olive Tree. It is the selling of thousands of olive trees from our fields, some of which are millenaries, to wealthy people and corporations from Northern Europe. There...

In News, Ralda & Friends Project
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Our main concern is to allow you to discover the specific flavours of our olive oils. These come from native varieties such as ‘morruda’, ‘farga’ and ‘sevillenca’ which are typical of the area and which are unique throughout the Iberian Peninsula and other more common such as the ‘picual’ or ‘arbequina’ which have been imported successfully with us. Our plains and hills are perfectly adapted to the production of high quality of olive oil for hundreds years, that´s why there are so many millennia and centuries-old olive trees still today in production in our region. However these same varieties on...

In News, Promotions
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May is the month of Mother Days in Europe: 1rst May In Spain, 8th in Switzerland and 29th in France. In Ralda+Friends we have launched a special campaign to celebrate such an event. We call it “Express your love for her with an olive tree”, an original manner to acknowledge the love of our mothers’ and reward it with an original gift: the adoption of an olive tree. It is a symbol of wisdom, health and good food… just the kind of things our mommies wanted for us! So, from today until May 29, giving an olive tree in adoption to...

In News
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We are very happy to see that everyday new benefits for our health due to the olive oil are discovered. It means that our olive oil we are offering to our friends is not only delicious, but also beneficial for our health if you do not abuse about fish and chips. Experts believe that everyone should include extra virgin olive oil as part of a healthy diet… And if I comes from a Ralda+Friends olive tree,even better! 😉 A recent study by the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA) highlighted a new and unexpected benefit to the virgin extra olive oil: the possible...