Why Organic Olive Oil from Organic Farming?

Organic farming is the alternative to conventional farming, where culture of intensive labour predominates with the massive application of chemical herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, etc... that suppose a simplification and a loss of the agrarian landscape every time greater year after year. Conventional farming provokes the loss of the agrarian landscape, which is disappearing year after year, and the diminution of the fauna and flora diversity.

Organic farming, the only technique we are implementing since long ago in Cortijo el Tobazo country estate, boosts the diversification of the agrarian landscape, seeks for the recovery of natural boundaries, as well as the maintenance of the existing traditional lay out of the olive grove, what allows small forest areas to be maintained in order to improve the diversity and the landscape.

This way of farming contributes, among others, to achieve the following environmental benefits:

1. Protection of the ecosystem and increase of its biodiversity, vegetal species as well as animal species.
2. Reduction of the hydric and aeolian erosion.
3. Barrier against the entrance of polluting agents from contiguous parcels whose agriculture is conventional.
4. Improvement of the agrarian landscape.

The result is the production of an organic olive oil that presents maximum guarantee for the consumer's health since it does not contain pesticides residues, which is highly important for a product that is usually consumed fresh or heated when the toxicity may increase”.