LET'S PICK CHESTNUTS!

Service Description

Chestnuts, a delicious fruit and superfood that can be eaten raw or roasted, cooked, made into sauce, flour, or bread, have been used since ancient times to feed and keep people healthy with their abundance of antioxidants and vitamin C... so tasty! You can fill the cloth bag we give you to take home. The cowhide gloves we give you to use here will come in handy to avoid pricks from their husks. There's a trick to harvesting them, and we're going to tell you what it is. You will find them on the ground and along the paths in their spiny capsules, either half-open or already loose... this means that they have fallen on their own and are ripe and at their best flavor. Those that are still closed on the trees, usually still clinging tightly to the branch, should be left alone, as they are still developing, ripening, and will only be delicious in the harvests of days to come. The vast majority of chestnut trees in the Bosque de Cobre and Valle del Genal are on private farms, whether fenced or not, and it is important for the economy and traditions of the countryside to respect them, as the fruit is highly prized by their owners to be harvested and sold, thus providing a good income for the year for those who live off the land, if the harvest is good. Here you can eat as many as you want right away, but be careful! Fresh and uncooked, they can cause a little gas... Take the rest home, where you can eat them raw or cooked, or give them away and enjoy them with even more loved ones. This year, 2025, there will be chestnuts to collect, according to the locals, from October 9 until the end of that month, but with nature you can never know for sure... it depends on so many things... rain... sun... the moon... So the chestnut season may start or end a little earlier or later. That's why we have things prepared for you both before the chestnut season begins, such as a concert in the beautiful forest, and for when the chestnut season ends, when you can start harvesting olives! If you book near the beginning of the month, the chestnuts may not be ready yet and there may be a concert instead, and if you book near the last weekend of October, it is important that you are open to harvesting olives instead if the chestnut season is already over—let us know in advance if it is very important for you to have chestnuts and nothing else.