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“El Charnecal”
“El Charnecal”
We are a walnut producer company in Spain in Montijo, Extremadura and a distributor of dried fruits and other functional foods, specialized in homegrown Spanish walnuts. “Iberian Nuts” Our Spanish walnuts and other products are recognized for their Bio-healthy properties. In our farm “El Charnecal” in Badajoz we grow our Spanish walnuts matured in the Sun of Extremadura, Spain We started with our own walnut plantation in 2005 and since then, we have been in constant growth, increasing in addition to walnuts in Spain to our range of high quality nuts. We also produce a significant number of walnut plants in our nursery.
Our farm “El Charnecal” located in the lower valleys of the Guadiana river enjoys extraordinary conditions for the cultivation of walnut. We collect our Spanish walnuts at their optimum ripeness. In our facilities, national walnuts are slowly dried in special dryers to preserve all their aroma and flavor. The whole process allows the nuts to be available for sale in 3 days. In this way we can offer you the freshest Spanish walnuts of the best quality, with all their unmistakable flavor. We currently have two main varieties of walnuts, Howard and Chandler. They are characterized by their sweet taste and by being walnuts of a very light color.
Because we produce our nuts with all our love throughout the year to offer you a nut full of flavor. The Extremadura sun helps us by ripening the fruit in the walnut tree and we collect it at the optimal time. The processing of the walnuts is carried out in our facilities with totally natural means, that is why we have the Global Gap quality certificate. Our two varieties of Howard and Chandler nuts are characterized by being very white nuts with an unmistakable sweet flavor. In addition, our walnut harvest in Spain is three weeks ahead of the first French walnuts and one month ahead of American walnuts. With what they become the first nuts available in Europe.
We also produce a significant amount of walnut, pistachio and olive plants in our nursery. We control the growth process of the plant in our nursery, its subsequent planting on our farm until it begins to produce our Spanish walnuts. Our walnut tree nursery is located in Montijo, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.
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