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Natural shelled walnuts, walnut quarters. Certified organic product from regenerative organic agriculture, grown in the highlands of southeastern Spain. They come from a soil and landscape restoration project that originated in Chirivel (Almería) and expands throughout the Almerian highlands (Almanzora and Los Vélez), Granada (Altiplano, Baza region and Guadix region) and the northwest of Murcia. These walnuts are the result of a reforestation project carried out in 2005 in the area that includes Los Vélez and the northwest of Murcia. Organic cultivation does not add products that could be harmful to health. Regenerative techniques allow the ecosystem in these highlands with extreme temperatures between winter and summer, with a tendency towards desertification, to generate an ecosystem and restore the soil and landscape. In this way, not only are nutrients extracted from the soil, but they are also added, capturing more CO2 and positively contributing to the natural environment than a conventional organic cultivation. The practices carried out include, among others: - Vegetative cover, with native plants from the specific terrain that are later added to the soil or used as food for extensive livestock that eat and deposit them in the soil, adding their contribution as fertilizer. - Creation of semi-natural ponds and infiltration trenches for rainwater, so that the rains do not wash away the fertile soil and the water can remain to naturally irrigate the crops. - Planting of hedges and aromatic plants to create an ecosystem and attract pollinators. - Placement of panels with bees. - Etc.