Heritage peanut seeds guardian
Ana Climent
Business
CA Climent · La Granja de la Costera · Film: Cacau del Collaret
Season
Season 1, Costa Blanca
Pillar
The Seeds
Location
La Granja de la Costera, Costa Blanca
Every spring, she plants heritage peanut seeds her family has kept alive for more than a century. Each generation saved it and planted it again, and now it is in her hands.
It is cacau del collaret, a small native Valencian peanut, grown next to cacaua, another old local type. They grow slowly and give less than modern peanuts, so the market almost let them disappear. The Climent family kept planting them anyway.
Ana farms with her father, Eduardo, on the family land in La Granja de la Costera, inland in Valencia province. They do every step themselves. They sow in late spring. In summer the plants open small yellow flowers, and then something surprising happens. After flowering, each stem bends down and pushes into the earth, and the peanut grows underground.
In late autumn the whole harvest is pulled out by hand. The peanuts dry slowly in the loft and are roasted in small batches, only when someone orders them. Nothing is rushed, and nothing is handed to anyone else.
We have a treasure in these seeds. They survived because my father never stopped growing them.
Every seed Ana keeps holds a piece of her family's memory and a piece of the region's biodiversity. A variety like this lives only as long as someone plants it. When the last family stops, it is gone for good.
Come in late autumn, when the plants come out of the ground. Or start with the film, and see why this family never let go.
Summary
Ana Climent is a Valencian peanut grower and seed saver in La Granja de la Costera, Valencia province, Spain. Through CA Climent she is reviving native Valencian peanuts, cacau del collaret and cacaua, from her family's century-old seeds. She grows, harvests, dries and roasts the crop herself, turning a nearly lost variety into a story of memory, biodiversity, climate resilience and family soil.
Key Facts
- Business
- CA Climent · La Granja de la Costera · Film: Cacau del Collaret
- Role
- Heritage peanut seeds guardian
- Location
- La Granja de la Costera, Costa Blanca
- Pillar
- The Seeds
- Produces
- Cacau del collaret and cacaua (native Valencian peanuts)
- Protects
- Native Valencian peanut varieties from century-old family seed
- Practice
- Grows, harvests, dries and roasts on family soil; seed saving
- Working since
- Family seeds kept 100+ years
- SDG touchpoints
- 15 · 2 · 13 · 4