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Pedra Lavrada works a 14-hectare olive grove at Bogalhal, in Pinhel, Guarda, on a schist slope between 450 and 500 metres above the left bank of the Côa. The producer, Nuno Dias Pacheco, describes it as holding as many olive trees as there are days in three years, and says the grove has stayed in the same farming family for generations. Its origin is given as a 2,000-year legacy: on history handed down through those generations and, the producer adds, on archaeological finds and studies, the planting is attributed to the Romans in the late 1st century BC, when they came through Bogalhal Velho beside the road that ran from Almofala to Póvoa do Mileu. The trees themselves the producer puts at between 700 and 2,000 years old, with no independent dating behind the figure.
Cultivation is biodynamic, without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers, though the grove is not officially certified as organic. Fertility comes from the manure of a sheep flock that feeds on the trees' epicormic shoots; pruning is light and every second year, and the ground is never ploughed. Picking is by hand, tarpaulins laid round each tree and ash rods worked outwards through the branches, leaf separated from fruit and anything off the ground left behind. Crates go to the mill the same evening, where extraction is cold and never passes 27°C. Verdeal, Redonda Bical, Cornicabra and Carrasquinha Redonda make a green, bitter, peppery oil, bottled at 500, 200 and 100 ml, and in one line carrying 23-carat edible gold.
From the public record: pedralavrada.wixsite.com · reformaagraria.pt
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