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Media: Food Unfolded Title: A Hidden Citrus Garden That Holds a Powerful Message About Nature Author & Host: Inés Oort Alonso Directo, Product & Camera: Arturo Vicario Graphics: Cait Mack y Eloise Adler Programme Managers: Marieke Van Schoonhoven and Penny Kidd Programme Director: Sofia Kuhn Date: 9th of January 2025 Biodiversity is the foundation of sustainable food production, helping our food systems to remain resilient in the face of climate change, pests and diseases. But over the last fifty years, the world's food supply has become increasingly uniform. In 2022, Spain exported €3.3450 billion worth of citrus fruit, mainly

This webinar, organised by the Perfume Academy, offers a tribute to citrus fruits and the Valencian landscape through the work of Todolí Citrus Fundació, created to preserve the biodiversity of citrus fruits and which has just received the Sustainability and Innovation award at the Perfume Academy Awards 2024 Perfume Academy Awards 2024. In this session, with its Technical Director, Óscar Olivares-Fuster, we take a tour of its extraordinary orchard. + video

From 5th of October 2024 to 9th March 2025 you can visit the exhibition SHIMABUKU: OCTOPUS, CITRUS, HUMAN curated by Vicente Todolí for the Centro Botín in Santander. This is the Japanese artist's first exhibition in Spain. His works, affective and often humorous, are motivated by an anecdote, a conversation or the artist's own curiosity. The exhibition includes the installation Something that floats/Something that sinks, 2024, consisting of a series of water tanks in which a selection of Todolí Citrus Fundació's autumn citrus fruits ‘float and sink’, exploring a strange natural phenomenon: some citrus fruits float while others sink,

The Vice President of the Perfume Academy, Val Díez, delivered the Innovation and Sustainability Award to Óscar Fuster-Olivares, Technical Director of Todolí Citrus Fundació, who presented an emotional video of Vicente Todolí, President of the foundation. The Perfume Academy highlighted the dedication of the Foundation and its commitment to the study and dissemination of citrus fruit and citriculture and its work for the preservation of citrus biodiversity. The core of the Foundation is its collection of almost 500 varieties of citrus fruits from all over the world in its botanical orchard, a unique garden on the Mediterranean coast in

The Fuera de Serie Sustainability Award went to Vicente Todolí and his project Todolí Citrus Fundació, who has spent years defending the horticultural tradition of his land and has worked tirelessly to protect and promote the biodiversity of citrus fruits. The Sustainability award went to Vicente Todolí for the Todolí Citrus Fundació project, who has spent years defending the fruit and vegetable tradition of his land and has worked tirelessly to protect and promote the biodiversity of citrus. His Botanical and Citrus Orchard brings together more than 500 ancestral, exotic or endangered varieties, as explained Cristina Giménez, Managing Director

The Foundation submitted a project to the program of Nominative Grants of the Presidency of the Diputació de València, which was selected and funded with an amount of 37,550.50 €. The project includes the installation of an aviary for songbirds in one of the plots of our Citrus Collection. The aviary has been designed by the German artist Carsten Höller, who has donated it to the Foundation in recognition of the work of its founder and president, Vicente Todolí, in protecting the environment and the biodiversity of Citrus. In fact, the design is inspired by citrus fruits themselves, as

"Citrus: a journey through history and art" will soon be available in bookshops. A book written by Salvador Zaragoza, edited by Todolí Citrus Fundació and published by La Fábrica. This publication takes a journey through the historical relationship between citrus and the different human cultures, showing the fascination that citrus have generated, whether from an agronomic, medicinal, gastronomic or artistic point of view. It includes numerous anecdotes that show us the evolution of human thought and agronomic knowledge. An accessible and attractive book, both for experts in the field and for curious people who wish to know how citrus

It is always a pleasure to receive your visits to our Botanical Garden El Bartolí. On this occasion we were able to count on the presence of Elena Reygadas, recognised as the best chef in the world in 2023, as well as occupying the 49th position in the "Top 50 Restaurant List", and chef of the Rosetta Restaurant in Mexico City, and Bruno Verjus and his team of the Table Restaurant in Paris, which occupies the 10th position in this outstanding ranking. Among other reasons, the reason why they were in Valencia was precisely to attend the celebration of

In Spain, south of Valencia, is the Todoli Citrus Fundació, a veritable citrus collection created by the famous curator and artistic director of Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Perfectly integrated into the rural landscape, a small multi-purpose building, designed by architect Carlos Salazar, serves as a gastronomic laboratory and creative centre dedicated to the study of more than 400 varieties of plants.