Olivares de miel Operational Group: Introduction of honey-producing plants in traditional olive groves in the Community of Madrid: influence on soil, erosion, honey, and landscape.

The practical results of this project should be assessed in the short and medium term. In the short term, and as a result of the activities carried out over these three years, it is expected to have generated benchmark cases and practices in mixed olive and aromatic crops, combined with beekeeping, simultaneously generating environmental improvements, especially in terms of soil quality, and complementary incomes and synergistic benefits in agroecological terms (increased biodiversity).

In the short term, after three years, if there is no competition between hedges of aromatic herbs and olive production, aid programs will likely be opened for planting aromatic herbs in olive groves, and there will also be agrotourism tools (the olive grove as a garden, customizing rural houses, etc.), which will continue in the medium term. In the medium term, scientific and technological confirmation of the advantages of mixed crops based on traditional olive grove settings will be achieved, especially in the most marginal or in more alkaline soils.

The project's scale, the project's projected plots and municipalities, and the planned communication, combined with the diverse capabilities of the partners involved, are expected to give the project great visibility.