Our citrus plots in l'Horta Nord
Five plantings in Moncada, Alfara del Patriarca and Albuixech, all in l’Horta Nord. Each record gives the municipality, the agricultural partida where one is declared, and the year the trees were planted. Photographs are still being taken.
Five plantings, one comarca
Everything on this site is picked inside one comarca, l'Horta Nord, and there are five plantings in it. Moncada is at the head of the plain, Alfara del Patriarca a little way down it, and Albuixech has its boundary on the beach. You can cross the whole comarca in a morning. That is a narrower origin than most Spanish citrus offers can honestly claim, and it is the part of the origin we can put in writing today.
What we cannot put in writing is which planting filled a particular pallet. Lot numbering is an open field on all five records, so no document we could issue would tie a delivery to one block of trees. The plot pages give the municipality, the partida where the grower declared one, the cultivar and the planting year. Area, tree count, rootstock and irrigation are blank, and they are blank because nobody has surveyed them: a guess typed into those rows would be indistinguishable from a measurement once it left this page.
A partida is a place name, not a certificate
A partida is the traditional farming place name of the Valencian countryside, older than the cadastre and narrower than a municipality. Masías is the one declared for the clementines in Moncada. Several holdings share it. Naming it puts the fruit in a real part of a real town without pointing at a single field, and it is something you can check against a map instead of taking on trust from us.
None of that is a claim about fruit. A planting year tells you the trees are past establishment and into settled bearing; it tells you nothing about the sugar in a lot picked next February. Where a growing requirement is what makes a purchase possible or impossible, it goes in the first email with the evidence it needs behind it, because there are some we cannot meet.
The IVIA has its campus in Moncada, the same town as two of the plantings, and its variety descriptions are what the pages here cite. That is geography, not a relationship. No institute has looked at our fruit, and nothing on this site should be read as though one had.
What you can tell your own customers
Origin is the part of a product sheet that gets copied furthest from the person who wrote it. Whatever goes on yours has to survive a question from a buyer two steps down the chain, so it is worth keeping to what is confirmed here: the comarca, the municipality, the cultivar. Any photograph on this site that is not of our own ground carries a stamp saying so.
A photograph of a plot is evidence about the day it was taken and nothing else. Ask for the date, and ask what was outside the frame. For the fruit you are actually buying, the useful evidence is about that fruit: when it was picked, what it measured, who looked at it before it was loaded. None of that is on a page about land.
Why these plot records are not published yet
A plot record goes live when there is a photograph taken on that plot and its details have been checked with the grower. Neither is in place today, so the records stay unpublished and this page shows only what has been declared. A record left open is easier to correct than a page dressed with photography taken somewhere else.
The availability list already names the planting behind each declared lot, so a delivery week can be tied to a municipality and a variety while these records are still being prepared.
Navel Foios, Albuixech
l'Horta Nord
Navel Lane Late, Alfara del Patriarca
l'Horta Nord
Navel Foios, Alfara del Patriarca
l'Horta Nord
Masías, Moncada
Masías, l'Horta Nord
Navel Foios, Moncada
l'Horta Nord
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.