Try typing his name into Google. With some variants, you will find headlines like the following: The heiress who left her empire to live on a farm inaugurated by Albert of Monaco and whose products Queen Letizia buys. Of the three assertions, the first is false; the second, relative and the best of the three, true. Let us add that in any interview, emphasis is placed on a train accident that could cost her life and was an incentive to transform her, a matter that already bores her. Blanca Entrecanales Domecq (Madrid, 1959) measures her responses well:
“You journalists always put some hooks… I have never had any empire but rather a life with varied stages, like anyone's life. I like Alberto Mónaco because he dresses a lot: it is true due to circumstances he came to my farm and there is a plaque on it. Or the train accident, which is also addictive, but come on, without further ado; Please don't give that so much echo."
Daughter of the prosperous businessman José María Entrecanales and the aristocrat Blanca Domecq, she represents the second generation of the family at the head of Acciona, an infrastructure-making conglomerate that emerged from the merger of the company Entrecanales and Távora, founded by her grandfather, and the veteran construction company MZOV, dating back to the 19th century.
However, the path traced by his predecessors and continued by his brothers – José Manuel is today CEO of the company – was not his. Around 2011 he decided to set out to create Dehesa El Milagro, a sustainable farm that produces vegetables, fruits, eggs, lamb, cereals, chicken and prepared dishes, also 100% organic. "It is a way of producing without synthetic chemicals and through guidelines such as alternating crops, covering fruit trees and discarding the use of pesticides, among others, aimed at impacting nature as little as possible." Blanca explains that the European Union is very rigid in terms of controlling farms like hers to grant them the desired logo of the leaf made up of white stars on a green background.
“Our peculiarity is that we are a farm: we have animals, although nothing to do with those industrial poultry or pig factories, quite the opposite. Combining animals and agriculture is an advantage because we replicate what happens in nature: the animals rotate through the plots, they make manure, and as they spend less time, the grass improves.” The experience of South African landowner Allan Savory, creator of the so-called holistic management, was fundamental in the genesis of Dehesa El Milagro.
The most famous of its clients is Queen Letizia. If the capon was present at her wedding with Don Felipe, the King's House let Blanca know that the one from her farm had her approval. “She takes great care of herself. Well, I don't know personally if she liked it but her personal secretary (laughs) thanked me. What she buys a lot from us are chicken carcasses and bones, I understand that to prepare broths, very healthy and with a great contribution of collagen and other properties. I imagine she will buy us more things.” As this newspaper has learned, Zarzuela frequents El Corte Inglés in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), where you can find the best of El Milagro: in addition to raw materials such as those mentioned, a growing line of prepared products.
Blanca Entrecanales, who would like to be remembered “as a good person, a value that is not taken into account as much today,” understands herself as the sum of two magnificent influences: “From my father I learned the entrepreneurial spirit. I just can't stop still! The poor guy, may he rest in peace, always said: 'Do something, go up in a balloon' (laughs) to encourage us not to rest on our laurels. And it's true: having ease in life and having money makes me think that I should give something to society. And from my mother, a generosity that I try to imitate. We were lucky, as I say, to have a brother with Down syndrome who has made us see disability in a different way and defend it. I would love to share my mother, who continues to accompany me in her old age and I live very close to her.”
