{"id":28641,"date":"2025-10-10T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacultivada.com\/?p=28641"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:48:21","slug":"the-olive-green-of-the-greenfinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacultivada.com\/en\/the-olive-green-of-the-greenfinch\/","title":{"rendered":"The olive green of the Greenfinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Green eyes,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">green like olive oil,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">green like the green olive<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the olive-green of the greenfinch&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These lyrics may not sound familiar to you<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but let me explain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This morning I woke up with olive green running through my veins and couldn\u2019t resist adapting the chorus of the famous <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">copla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Andalusian ballad) to fit my own olive and cultivated world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both my parents had green eyes, and the first <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kohl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> eyeliner I ever used was olive green, which belonged to my mother. Funny how I can\u2019t forget that little pencil\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning to our habitat, <\/span><b>have you ever seen a greenfinch?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It\u2019s a bird often spotted among the olive trees, more so in organic groves where it feels safe enough to nest. Its scientific name is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chloris chloris<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (literally \u201cgreen, green\u201d). Its plumage is olive green with flashes of bright yellow, and in an organic olive grove it can find everything it needs to survive: dense branches for nesting and plenty of seeds from the plants that grow naturally around the trees \u2014 the same plants others destroy by using herbicides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The richness and vitality of an organic olive grove make all the difference.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another image that remains fixed in my memory comes from the edges of our groves, and was pointed out to me by a Belgian friend. If you look on the other side of our trees, you will see land that is \u201cclean,\u201d yet barren and lifeless. On our side, it\u2019s green and alive, bursting with vitality&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michel often told me, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ca picture is worth a thousand words<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you have to share this online so people can understand.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We leave a wide safety margin along the edges, and the olives we harvest there are kept separate from the rest and tested, just in case of any cross-contamination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, now you know just how much life our juices and extra virgin olive oils contain, how many little birds are born in our olive trees, and how the greenfinches flit about singing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chip-chip<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cultivated regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Elena Vecino <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(fundadora de La Cultivada). 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