Apart from the Moli D'oli in Campredo does anyone know of anywhere else,non co op, that pays cash/cheque there and then for carobs.I've ordered the new Aston and in order for me to get the free insurance I need to pay cash for it.

Dream on!

Ok Nobby
The cheapest new DB9 is 125050.00 uk pounds, which means that at €0.15 per kg, you would need to take in 958717 kg of carobs.
Matriculation extra ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
Maybe just stick to your little 2 wheeled tractor..............

Ralda S.L. in Santa Barbara issues a cheque. They can do it everytime you go in or just keep your weigh in receipts til you are ready to cash in. You do have to sign up with them with deeds and id.
Alternatively there is a no questions asked backstreet mill in Amposta that takes carobs and
olives. If interested I can give you directions.
Bruixot

Thanks Bruixot but was think somewhere Bitem/Tivenys area.

Hey, you didn't specify where! After the terrible prices last year I decided it wasn't worth it and started running them through the chipper/shredder and supplementing our animal feed instead. Carobs make great horse kibble and the goats,sheep,ducks and donkey like it too.
Bruixot

Put some through our shredder and supplemented the dogs food also a few years ago

Here's some interesting bedtime reading about carobs.
http://www.crete-region.gr/greek/energy/interim%20report.htm

Don't know why you lot are cashing them in for a mere €0.20/kg. Grind 'em up and flog them for £17/kg!!!!
http://www.rawliving.eu/super-sweeteners/mesquite-1kg.html

We had a Wwoofer here a month or so ago and she insisted on making carob cake.Soooooo we ground up the carob,sieved the 'dust' and spent a couple or hours making enough flour.The cake was made and it was crap.

Hi Nobrot,
All of other halves cooking is crap so can he have the recipe ( why should he changed his habits of a life time )

Bulldog wrote on Oct 7^th, 2011 at 2:30pm:

Hi Nobrot, All of other halves cooking is crap so can he have the recipe ( why should he changed his habits of a life time )

No,It really is crap

Hi Nobrot,
If this recipe is crap we could sell it to Tesco's for thier value food range. You get your car I get my tricycle, cut Cactus jack in and he gets his own bin ( donkey friendly bin ).
Yours entrepreneur Bulldog.      

Bulldog wrote on Oct 8^th, 2011 at 3:20pm:

Hi Nobrot, If this recipe is crap we could sell it to Tesco's for thier value food range. You get your car I get my tricycle, cut Cactus jack in and he gets his own bin ( donkey friendly bin ). Yours entrepreneur Bulldog.

My donkeys will never make it all the way to Tescos.
Anyway they just love carobs raw......

Just out of curiosity does anyone know how long carobs are "harvestable" for - do they need to come straight from the tree or can you pick them from the ground.

In my expereience carobs can be picked upto a year(possibly longer) after they fall. It all depends on the conditions and what you want to use them for. You can easily tell if a carob is any good just by the weight and texture. Weighty and shiny is how you want them. If they are dull or black and rough and/or have no weight to them then they are no good.
If you have a tree that hasn't been harvested for awhile then dig around amongst the old and obviously useless carobs as you will be surprised at how many good ones survive underneath. For the carobs to survive any length of time they need to be in the shade and have some element of moisture under the tree. If you are planning on chopping them up for animal feed then some of the tattier carobs are fine too.
Bruixot

http://www.gilead.net/health/carob.html

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/rawcarob.html

http://www.amazon.com/Carob-Cookbook-Those-Love-Chocolate/dp/0865341354?iact=hc&vpx=724&vpy=248&dur=214&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=129&ty=101&sig=106719588227258622826&ei=vCiRT6bcIuek0QXwk6nvAQ&page=3&tbnh=141&tbnw=133&start=45&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:45,i:204#reader_0865341354

What are you doing posting during the day ?  ;D

Hi Bruixot, Looking to make a pittance to off-set upkeep on the casita and have 11 very large carob trees with lots of pods on the ground also - it's either harvest or firewood.

Pittance is the right word.
Unless you have several tonnes its not worth the fuel of the drive to the mill.....

briand6868 wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 8:19pm:

Hi Bruixot, Looking to make a pittance to off-set upkeep on the casita and have 11 very large carob trees with lots of pods on the ground also - it's either harvest or firewood.

Firewood is the better bet.The trees can be pruned by about 1/3 without too many problems.

A decent sized tree can produce 200 kilos (6 sacks) of carob at 25c per kilo. Your 11 trees could bring you €500. Obviously nothing to our wealthier members but I find it helps...

Alternatively firewood costs about 15 cents a kilo and it only takes 70 years for a carob tree to reach maturity. After we cut them down for firewood I am sure the next generation can plant new ones so their granchildren can burn those too.

We don't really "own" our land it's just borrowed from our children.
Bruixot

Planespete - do you know if the Campredo mill accepts Carobs or which is the nearest mill to Campredo that will.

I'm pretty sure Sol D'Ebre take them.  There's a mill to the left of the doors of the big shed at the back which I saw being used about a month ago.

wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 9:18am:

Alternatively firewood costs about 15 cents a kilo and it only takes 70 years for a carob tree to reach maturity. After we cut them down for firewood I am sure the next generation can plant new ones so their granchildren can burn those too. We don't really "own" our land it's just borrowed from our children. Bruixot

For what it's worth James, I agree with your sentiments, however, Nobrot's suggestion of pruning them by about a third sounds like a reasonable compromise ?

Compromise is always good. : ) I've been collecting my carobs for seven years and whilst the price has got very bad these last few years it's still money for old rope. You get really fast at picking them with practice. Admittedly the wage per hour works out at half minimum wage(with current prices) but if you aren't doing anything else with your time at the moment.....
Bruixot

"but if you aren't doing anything else with your time at the moment....."

I wish.  I'm flat out every day (but not ALL day owing to old man's energy limitations  :-/
I'm typing this during a break from trying to cultivate new growing areas with a pick axe.  >:(
It doesn't apply to me.  I only have one Carob which hasn't had any pods for the last few years.  I have pruned it and used the wood for logs but the side branches at ground level had spread to a width of about 15 meters.  I'm leaving the upright trunks and higher branches.  Not a bad burning wood though.