Olivares de viver
Viver, Castellón
The Pilot Farms of "Olivares de Viver" are located in the municipality of Viver, in the province of Castellón. The cooperative of Viver was founded in 1990 to bring together the small artisanal mills existing in the town and set up a modern olive mill to produce an extra virgin olive oil of the highest quality. It has about 500 members and associates who grow olive groves of different varieties in an extensive and conventional regime.
Part of the municipality is overlapped with the space of the Natura 2000 Network called "Alt Palància" (ES5223005), although the area is predominantly forest and river with little direct impact on the Pilot Farms. It is a mountainous area in the foothills of the Javalambre massif with important forest masses dominated by pine forests of black pine, juniper and holm oak. The Palancia River also offers a natural and landscape framework of great relevance to this environment, with well-preserved riparian habitats and rocky outcrops of great interest for the nesting of raptors.
Although, the olive fields under study in this project are not entirely within the limits of the LIC, their relationship in this described environment is undeniable. It is also the expressed will of the Cooperativa de Viver, the integration of their agricultural productions in this natural environment of high natural, cultural and landscape value.