l'Horta, Valencia
Valencia oranges, direct from the grower
Navel Foios, Clemenules, Navel Lane Late and Navelina from our family holding in l'Horta, Valencia. Availability needs confirming for your order.
Sizes, pallets and terms
Availability
Five lots across the campaign, from November to April. Quantities, picking windows and the plot each one comes from are listed in full.
| Variety | Plot | Picking | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clementina Clemenules | Masías, Moncada | November – January | approx. 10 t |
| Navel Foios | Albuixech | November – February | approx. 8 t |
| Navel Foios | Alfara del Patriarca | November – February | approx. 15 t |
| Navel Foios | Moncada | November – February | approx. 50 t |
| Navel Lane Late | Alfara del Patriarca | January – April | approx. 12 t |
| Total | approx. 95 t | ||
Where the fruit comes from
Our citrus grows on five plantings in Moncada, Alfara del Patriarca and Albuixech, in l’Horta Nord. The oldest navels went into the ground in 1993. Photographs of each plot are still being taken, so ask the grower which origin details we can put in writing for the fruit you are considering.
- AlbuixechNavel FoiosPlanted 1993
- Alfara del PatriarcaNavel FoiosPlanted 1993
- MoncadaNavel FoiosPlanted 1993
- Alfara del PatriarcaNavel Lane LatePlanted 1997
- Masías, MoncadaClementina ClemenulesPlanted 2001
What a holding this size can do for you
We are one family holding, and the whole of it is inside a single comarca: l'Horta Nord, the irrigated plain between Valencia and the sea. Two things follow from that, and they pull in opposite directions. The origin is narrow enough to describe in a sentence and check on a map. The volume behind it is not large, and weekly capacity is one of the fields nobody here has filled in yet, so a programme built on a fixed weekly drop needs that conversation before anything else does.
Three of the five plantings are Navel Foios, which is why it is the variety with most fruit behind it. Navelina opens the campaign and Navel Lane Late closes it. The clementines are Clemenules, a different species on a different size table, and an enquiry that mixes them with oranges reads better as two lines than as one. Each variety page sets out the regional picking window and the rows we have not been able to measure.
A picking window is not a delivery date
The season page shows when each cultivar is picked in this region. It does not show when we pick. Our own harvest dates are an empty field on all four datasheets because nobody has written them down, and the regional window is the nearest honest substitute: it tells you which cultivars could plausibly be on a lorry in your week, and rules out the ones that could not.
What it cannot tell you is whether there is fruit on the ground this Thursday. That changes weekly and lives on the availability page. If your arrival date has any give in it, say how much. A few days of tolerance is sometimes the difference between a pick we can route to you and a straight no.
Getting to a price you can compare
A delivered price means nothing without the town in it. Hamburg and a village an hour outside Hamburg are not the same job for a carrier, and the second one can turn out to be impossible with the unloading equipment on site, which is why access restrictions are worth putting in the first message rather than the third. Say so if you would rather appoint your own carrier.
The buying guide sets out what has to be agreed before any of that is worth quoting. The size guide gives you words for the fruit itself; the packaging page gives you words for how it travels. Every format on either page still needs confirming for the supply in question, because our packing options are not fixed.
The price pages publish a public market series and nothing of ours. They are background: useful for knowing whether the category is moving and in which direction. Our own figure is agreed in the conversation, against your specification, once we know the fruit exists.
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.