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Olivar de la Luna likes Facebook. It makes possible for us to know our clients directly.
We believe/think communication between producers and consumers has to be direct, without intermediaries. But if there is something we like even more, is meeting our clients face to face, show them the process of extraction and packaging, let them know our diary rutine, the place we live in.
That is the reason why we invite you to take part in this contest, so the winner can spend a weekend with us. We promess to give you all our ecological energy, a great mill breakfast and, of course, let you taste first hand the best of all VEOOs.

The contest consist on a weekend for two all included. Do not hesitate and come to know our project!

Atention!, if you are the winner and you cannot come, you can also choose who you want to come in your place, give your luck as a present!

If you want to take part the only thing you have to do is find us on Facebook and click “I like”, that way we will start from this very moment! And remember, do not keep it as a secret, maybe some of your friends will find it interesting, let them know about it!

On May 18th we will carry out a draw between all of you who have take part in the contest.

The rules of the draw are the following:

OdlL will contact with the winner through a private message in Facebook and we will make a publication on the of OdlL website. If during the five following days the winner does not give any answer to our message we will make another draw with the rest of constestants.

Taking part in the contest implies the acceptance of all this information, including the decision. Between this acceptance will be the permission to publish your name if you are the winner on Facebook, Twitter and Olivar de la Luna’s blog. Olivar de la Luna will not claim responsibility for the publication third persons can make on social-networking, discussion forums or blogs in which appear the name of the winner after this publication.

Trip’s charges to Olivar de la Luna will be borne by the winner.

Each participant may accept some personal information to be included in Olivar de la Luna archives. The only thing we will use this information for is communicating the final result. If the participant wants to change any information given, he or she will be able to do it just by sending us a private message via Facebook.

Facebook does not sponsors, guarantees or administrates at all this promotion, and it is neither associated to it. You are giving information to Olivar de la Luna and not Facebook. This information will only be used for this contest and the promotion of this mark.

Good luck!

On March 15th, consumers day will be celebrated all around the world. It is just another way of remembering that choosing some products and refusing other when buying is an act loaded of responsibility.

Each decision of economic nature we take has repercussions on both environment and people around us. Decisions about consume and services are taken constantly but that does not mean they do not have great implications. Everyday, we choose between different options. We take this kind of decisions automatically, conditioned by marketing and its persuasion.

When we go to work every morning, we take the bus or we go walking. Maybe we even use our own vehicle, contributing a little more unnecessary pollution, wasting a little bit more of a limited resource such as petroleum and giving more and more profit to the greatest fortunes in the world. When buying the food we need, we can choose between products mass-produced by big marks on food, hamburgers, pizzas and, in short, all industrial food. We have the option, as well, of obtaining our products on the market, the familiar business next to our home, the closest greengrocer’s or the shop specialized in ecological products. This decision does matter, it is not irrelevant. The decisions  we take are votes we make daily. Through this votes, we can support our farming, our market gardeners, or we can promote dependences on economies looking for benefits, even when those benefits generate an irreparable damage on the planet, its lands and its water.

Each decision we take as a consumer holds a potential repercussion on society, human relations, social justice and wealth distribution around the world.  We make it out of habit, unconsciously. We use to think individual decisions do not count, that they can not transform reality.

From Almocafre Ecological Consume Cooperative Society, we assume the responsibility of supporting with our little actions as consumers all this agricultures and ranchings that do are respectful with environment. We support, as well, local producers, allowing and promoting economies of proximity. This compromise makes possible existence of economical movement and employment on rural society.

If we avoid the consume of products that not only pollute environment but also can harm irreparably our health we will improve our life conditions. Both alimentary and health crisis have been taking place constantly. We just have to remember the mad cow disease, the foot-and-mouth disease, the pork plague, the cases of legionnaire’s disease, the E.coli pollution on German vegetables…

Our common acts of consume can also hold a gesture of solidarity towards other parts of the world. We can be supportive through fair trade. That is why in our cooperative we offer products such as coffee and sugar coming from rural regions on Latin America. They are distributed by IDEAS, an organization specialized  in cooperation and education on development. We are convinced that supporting Andalusian rural world, practising ecological production and promoting equality in commercial relationships around the world we are also helping to make possible sustainability in our planet.

Miguel Navazo Suela