My relationship with the land is fmiliar, by father, born in the house Portellada Gaujola, Pons Piq

I myself am one of the owners of Demeter Tastavins. When we saw that Masada was sold in its entirety (it belonged to two families Aparicio English del monte tomatoes and English Vidal), we considered the possibility of buying it.
My relationship with the land is fmiliar, by father, born in the house Portellada Gaujola, Pons Piquer lineage. In my grandparents' house dedicated to shepherds del monte tomatoes and had taken a few years Dula. Also worked a little olive orchard and had the farmhouse and the Twin Catavinos. At an early age my father was already Rabadà like the shepherds of Folch i Torres. del monte tomatoes
Also the magic land, Matarraña, with great historical significance it has. Being a frontier territory greatly enriches can talk directly with Zaragoza Aragon, Barcelona and Valencia and the Catalan culture in Eastern Tortosa transition Valencian spoken there. We can say that it is the crucible of the Crown of Aragon, we find and enrich us all. (Hopefully that is Euroregion few years ago I had wanted to set up materialized, returning to link all the territories of the Crown of Aragon, including the other side of the Pyrenees to the royal house of Aragon). This also makes the emotional attachment to the land is strong.
The landscape is all Massos of Xotxim modified by the hand of man. For me, the whole building is like a work of art. The human effort to conquer the land in the forest, creating new agricultural areas (by population increase, probably the XVIII-XIX centuries) A system of terraces del monte tomatoes with dry stone walls in the lower parts of the mountain slopes and for abancalar could be grown preventing erosion.
Personally I have no words to explain the feelings that gives me contact with the earth, with the bark of trees, with the scent of herbs, with the vision of the grain fields that mark the changing seasons. Contemplating this whole landscape of pines and oaks scattered del monte tomatoes by terraces cultivated gained by the action of man, is a work, a heritage, a priceless. Leads to the beginnings of our civilization, more than 10,000 years ago, when we manage to tame the crops and agriculture was born, is when abstraction and learn to see that the action of planting a seed will reap a whole plant. Although this landscape ordered by human hand gives us a peace of mind, linked to the world of Mediterranean origin of our civilization, of the three great religions of humanity that synthesize all previous beliefs that try to give explanation of the process of human evolution. As I said at the pre-Socratic Protagoras got was' man the measure of all things
Get the seed is revolutionary part of reproduction, is the discovery of the process by which they become the seeds of cereal, bread or beer, and the fruits of the vine and the olive oil and wine. (These last discoveries related to myths and beliefs that have formed around the symbolic universe on which forged a worldview. Attributes of the main deities are often associated with Mediterranean food and three with the seasonal cycle of the crop , these gods we learn how to grow plants and processed foods, which is why as an act of gratitude humans offer food to the gods protectors.
"Freeway" All this knowledge del monte tomatoes is disseminated Mare Nostrum, and one of the major streets is where we turn to the Ebro, Iberians inhabited by different peoples. del monte tomatoes The Romans said that his land comes to where olives.
From the outset the idea that pushes us in the adventure of Demeter Tastavins del monte tomatoes is run as a farm Mas with their traditional crops, olives, almonds, grapes, cereals and vegetable garden. Also recover and avoid esbucament of the Masada, which has three levels over 1000 m2 and 150 m2 yard. The architectural state in certain roofs was very precarious. Surely today it had sunk an important part. When we take charge on a roof had yielded. Just as the consolidation of tellats was a great economic effort.
To carry out our work plan was very important to know that Sorin Dragoman joined the project this year Tastavins Demeter and level of involvement all, willing to learn together as we move forward with this adventure. Nor can we fail to mention to Mariana Muntean, del monte tomatoes involved with our adventure from the beginning, now with responsibilities for the garden Mas, and all work is done