As proud members of the Godall Cooperative, at Ralda+Friends we are happy to introduce a new and very interesting proposal. From December, you can enjoy guided tours to our facilities every day of the year. Throughout the visits, our guests will get a complete understanding of the whole production process of one of the best olive oils around. Also, they will have the opportunity to touch genuine millenary olive trees and taste the final product. The tours include: A tour to the millenary olive trees: participants will be guided to a close plantation, to see and touch genuine millenary olive...

Now is time you can solve one of the most recurrent headaches at the end of the year: searching for gifts, either for professional acquittances, family commitments or loved ones. The Ralda+Friends 2022 packs offer the right mixture of originality, health, enjoyment, and surprise that every good gift should deliver. All at an affordable price and beautifully packaged. Visit our online shop for this year’s packs: https://raldafriends.ch/en/online-shop/ for Switzerland https://raldafriends.com/en/online-shop/ for the European Union You will find various combinations of genuine products from our Tierras del Ebro, handmade and chosen with care. To everyone’s taste.  We suggest you not to...

Although the headline sounds like something out of a catastrophic sci-fi movie, the experts referred by the Olive Oil Times this August agree in giving it validity. For example, Andrea Toreti, senior researcher at the European Drought Observatory, affirms that this year’s drought is even more severe than that of 2018, the worst in the last 500 years. As the publication also recalls, the first two months of summer have seen very little significant rainfall in southern and central Europe. As a result, up to 47% of the surface area of the European Community is at risk of severe drought....

After months of Russian hostilities in Ukraine and signs of an economic downturn, the olive oil sector is suffering across Europe. According to the European Commission’s summer report on the EU agricultural market, world agricultural prices have soared by 30% since the start of the invasion, largely due to the general increase in production costs (fertilisers, electricity, heating, transport, refrigeration, etc.) linked to the activity. Uncertainty and lower expectations for olive production in the coming year are also playing a role. The Commission also estimates that these higher production prices will gradually be passed on to the prices paid by...

Hello, I’m Aitana, the creator of the video section of “The kitchen of the Yaya Pili. I left you a bit abandoned these last few months… This week I bring you a very special and vegetarian recipe of our famous paella of the yaya Pili . Paella has become one of the most famous dishes in the world, becoming the 4th most searched dish worldwide on Google in 2015; and because we love rice, we could not miss a tasty and nutritious vegetarian paella in our blog. You will see that it is a very easy recipe that does not...