About Farm
About our Farm
bioNative is our family business that offers hand-raised and sustainably-grown premium nuts directly to you while protecting soil and water for generations to come. Our pistachios and other nuts are grown on a 150-hectare land in Villamalea, a small town with 4000 inhabitants in the northern part of the Albacete province located on the East coast of Spain, some 1 hour inland in Valencia. Our land is dry and arid, but also breathtaking and constantly evolving.
We invite you to learn more about our farm and purchase our products directly, through this website. We love knowing where and how our food is produced, and we hope you will too.
Meet Julio, Our Founder
The bioNative brand was founded by Julio. Julio is a law graduate that has always been sensitive about environmental conservation. He was involved in 2 conservation groups when he came up with the idea to create a tree nursery in 1990. This nursery is one of the most important and largest in the Iberian Peninsula , with more than 250 species. But Julio wanted to go further in his conservation efforts and find an alternative crop for his farm. So he turned to pistachios by grafting on existing wild plants. It took him 20 graftings to get one viable plant. Grafting on a wild plant is not easy, on average it is necessary to do 20 grafts to get one viable plant.
While other farms are replacing traditional varieties of nut trees, Julio and the rest of our family harvest exclusively existing trees, some of which were present since 1930 and that are adapted to the soil and climate conditions of the Iberian Peninsula. We took the difficult route for our farm, but we are now proud to be able to offer nuts with a very unique flavor, which are not only organic but also Biodynamic and Bio-integral and preserve the soil for our future generations.
Our family disrupted the nuts farming process to offer you the best products on the market while protecting and respecting our lands. Discover our products from our family farm, to your family table.
We offer you nuts with their original taste
Our pistachios and almonds are different from the typical products on the market. They are not salted, and raw, not roasted. All our products are self-sufficient, without any additive or taste enhancer. We aim to offer you the original taste of pistachios, almonds and jujubes, just like our ancestors used to have. To achieve this quality, we harvest, collect and process our nuts and fruits the same day to guarantee their freshness. For example, we simply remove the outer skin of our pistachios and dry them during 24 hours at a low temperature to preserve all the nutritional properties.
We select for you only the best products
Not all our nuts are created equal so in order to always offer you the highest quality of products, we have put in place a strict selection process. In order to achieve the premium standards for the products we offer, we use a thorough filtering process.
An initial filtering using an air-cyclone takes out all the empty shells. We then separate the pistachios, almonds and jujube into different sizes and types mechanically in the first place then do a third manual filtering thanks to the help of amazing women workers from Viamallea. We select and make sure that for example our pistachios all comply with our premium standards in terms of size, aperture, and cleanliness (we don’t use any chemical products to clean the shell). The nuts that don’t comply are used for other products. We are looking forward to you tasting our products!
