L’Olivera is a work cooperative and social initiative in the rural and peri-urban world. We cultivate vineyards and olive trees and produce organic wines and oils incorporating people with difficulties throughout the process, putting our capacities at the service of a common project.
We started this adventure in 1974 in Vallbona de les Monges, in the dry interior of Catalonia, with the idea of creating a community of life and work that, on the one hand, integrated people with difficulties, especially those in more social situations disadvantaged and, on the other hand, proposed a productive economic exit based on the area’s own values.
The social axis is at the core of the productive project, through a project on a human scale that puts people at the center. For this reason, we maintain manual work on the vines and olive trees, label by hand and number the bottles one by one. We are interpreters of the land and we work it applying the criteria of ecological agriculture. Our challenge has always been to make products that are based on agricultural heritage and that are a reflection of their land and its people.
Since 2010 we have also been in Can Calopa, a farmhouse in the Collserola Natural Park where we recover the vineyard and produce the only wine in the city of Barcelona. A social agriculture project that also generates opportunities for social inclusion for young people with special needs. An experience that vindicates agricultural activity linked to large cities.
