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Let’s Empower Carob!
Your name will appear on the plaque of acknowledgements that we will place in the Econau Classroom.
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
To enjoy during 2023/2024.
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
To enjoy during 2023.
Live a rural experience among the carob trees! Weekend at the Econau, with overnight accommodation and full board, for two people. Arrive on Saturday morning and stay until Sunday. Discover the Econau and its surroundings and the Ecotros estate. You will
accompany us in tasks such as carob or olive collection (depending on the season), carob products processing and elaboration with the *Garrofina.
To enjoy during 2023/2024.
Activity designed for companies who want to share new experiences with their workers outside the usual work environment. We propose to spend a different morning with the oceanographers from the Plancton Diving company. We will begin the activity with an explanation of the flora and fauna that we easily find on the seafloor in L'Ametlla de Mar.
Then we will equip ourselves and dive into the water with a guide who will show us everything explained to us before. Upon getting out of the water, we will have an EcoNau products tasting: olive oil, nuts, creams and carob syrup...
It includes: surface diving equipment (goggles, tube and wet suit)
Maximum of 10 people per group/day.
To enjoy in autumn 2023 or spring 2024.
Activity designed for companies who want to share new experiences with their workers outside the usual work environment. We propose to you to come and get to know the EcoNau and the Barranc de Santes Creus.
We will start the day with a treasure hunt for groups inside the EcoTour track. While searching for the Lost Carob, you will know the environmental and cultural values that surround EcoNau.
Afterwards, we will have the Carob Chef, a special workshop on carob cuisine. We will cook a few dishes divided into groups, led by our Chef Montse from Garrofina, and we will finally evaluate which group has cooked the best dishes. We will eat them at ease around a
large table under the shade of a carob tree, accompanied by a delicious natural wine.
Maximum of 20 people per group/day.
Help us recover an old carob processing machine and create the first organic carob mill in Catalonia.
Task | Minimum | Optimum |
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Campaign design
Fees and time spent on project creation
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$ 967 |
Infrastructure | Minimum | Optimum |
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Commissions
Bank and PayPal commissions, as well as Goteo.
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$ 208 | |
Carob processing machine
Carob processing machine that separates the seed (locust bean) from the pulp of the carob pod. Flour and syrup are made from the pulp which are the base ingredients of our products.
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$ 8,470 | |
Commissions
Bank and PayPal commissions, as well as obligatory costs of the Goteo platform.
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$ 416 |
Material | Minimum | Optimum |
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Reward expenses
We will have some expenses for the elaboration and shipment of the rewards.
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$ 3,014 | |
Promotional material
Preparation of the promotional video of the association and the project. Preparation of photographs and video shorts for the promotion of crowdfunding on social networks and on the project website.
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$ 852 | |
Carob mill
The carob mill allows for the production of carob flour from the pulp that has been previously processed. This mill will be located at the EcoNau.
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$ 13,927 | |
Flour bagger
A machine to bag the carob flour made with the mill
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$ 7,899 | |
Rewards
We will have certain expenses for the elaboration and shipment of the rewards.
|
$ 1,663 | |
Total | $ 13,511 | $ 37,415 |
We are a group of producers, transformers, cooks, and environmentalists who want and believe in
the recovery and regeneration of the land. We associated as the EcoNau to promote production, processing and the elaboration of products derived from native crops such as carob, olive and rain-fed fruits.
As a core element, we have chosen the carob tree, a tree accustomed to our Mediterranean climate with little rain and strong sea winds. It can live more than a thousand years and a single tree can produce more than five hundred kilograms of carob in a year without any high maintenance or fertilizer. It is an example of resilience and adaptability to an increasingly hostile environment of high temperatures and continued droughts.
We want to empower carob and turn it into much more than the memory of our grandparents´ stories about how they ate it as a snack. It is much more than the food for cattle that it has been relegated to in recent decades. We want carob to have a place in our kitchens for its numerous nutritious, qualities (it contains fibre, protein, calcium, magnesium...) and enormous possibilities as an ingredient for cooking and sweetening.
Empowering carob, we are recovering and rethinking the rhythms of the earth and nature, adapting to the seasonal crops and thus freeing ourselves from buying and consuming food that travels many kilometres to reach our dishes.
We want to create and strengthen a new agricultural network of small farms that
cultivate the land and the environment with care. They are often newcomers to the
agricultural world but aware of the moment of climate emergency we are facing.
We want to invite those lifelong producers with conventional practices to listen to our project and the ideas we have.
To get all this...
The EcoNau association is recovering an old farmhouse turning it into a training, transformation and healing space, equipped with solar panels and its own water well.
One of the first steps will be to rehabilitate and install an old carob processing machine belonging to Salvador Baldrich that allows cleaning, crushing and obtaining, on the one hand, of the locust bean (carob seed) and, on the other, the pulp to make flour and syrup. Modern machinery is very expensive; recovering this machine that is over 80 years old we recover the rural, industrial and agri-food history of Catalonia.
During the rehabilitation process, a digital scan of the parts will be done to make a model that allows to replicate the machine.
Let’s Empower Carob means to create a communitarian and cooperative project so as to become resilient and adapt to the climate by strengthening the rural world and allowing people to live with dignity.
EcoNau is a groundbreaking project in the territory selected to be part of a mentoring program - Ecological-HUB Tierras del Ebro - for 3 months. In addition, it was chosen as a 'Singular project' by the Social Economy program of the Department of Enterprise and Work of the Generalitat of Catalonia, with the endowment of income that would allow the hiring of personnel for its implementation.
EcoNau brings together people from diverse fields and experiences who will find integral support and help to take care of their crops, manage their farms and enjoy continuous training.
"Let's Empower The Carob" is a circular project that aims to inform, train and
sustainably transform the rural world - from grain to table - for our generation and the future.
The global objectives of the project Let's Empower The Carob of EcoNau are:
Concerning these objectives, the budgetary needs that we hope to cover thanks to all the people who support us in this crowdfunding are basically for:
EcoNau is a space, a project, a network, that values and accommodates all those with interests in the cultivation of carob and rain-fed fruits, nature, organic and regenerative agriculture, cooking with local products, ecological and high quality, ethical food processing, sustainability, ecology, and farm management.
EcoNau wants to be a meeting space for:
The EcoNau Association is a newly created entity with 12 registered members. Currently, an active group of 4 people is part of the Board of the Association, and 3 people are hired for administrative and management tasks.
All the members are - for 10 years or more - owners of businesses related to the agri-food sector, with farmland and fields of carob and almond and are aware of the sector's reality. Among the members, we have the projects Penyaflor and Ecotros, the creperie Crême de la crême, the project
Cultius Gaia with the brand “Garrofina”. The latter have previous experience with a crowdfunding campaign with Goteo: ¡Consolidemos la elaboración de productos con alma!.
As an infrastructure, the association has a warehouse (Nau in Catalan) rented at a very low cost, of almost 300 square meters divided into 3 spaces. Each space has mezzanines for the material warehouse that add up to 140 square meters of usable surface for storage and for the installation of machines. Each space will be divided into several rooms according to the needs of the future workshop and the mill.
With our resources, we cleaned the spaces, made small improvements such as wall lifting and painting, as well as a dry sink installation for users and the access improvement.
Promoting group:
Aurora Requena. Sea and field biologist. Member of the communication and training working group of EcoNau.
Daniel Méndez. A sailor by profession and a farmer by vocation, a few years ago, he decided that the future of the planet resides in returning to the working of the land. Oil and carob producer. Member of the finance working group.
Sara Moretton. Professional translator. Producer of olives, almonds and carob and owner of a farm in Terra Alta. Member of the communication and training working group of EcoNau.
Chuchi Estevez. communication and training working group. Dry stone master, a neighbour of the EcoNau and custodian of the space.
Luana Torre García. Cook and owner of the Crême de la Crême, an ice cream shop and
homemade creperie in L'Amettla de Mar.
Montserrat Serramià and Stefan Keller. Passionate entrepreneurs and inventors of the delicious products of the "Garrofina" derived from carob; producers of carob, almonds, olives, hazelnuts and grapes, Montse is the president of the association, while Stefan is responsible of the commercial department.
Cecil Thevenot. Owner of the permaculture farm "Penyaflor", responsible for accounting and everything related to technology and the internet.
We are a group of producers, transformers, cooks, and environmentalists who want and believe in the recovery and regeneration of land. We associated as the EcoNau to promote production, processing and the elaboration of products derived from native crops such as carob, olive and rain-fed fruits. In addition, the association promotes meeting spaces for farmers that allow them to train in cropping and farm management techniques in a way that respects biodiversity and the environment, as well as in healthy
cooking and body wellness practices.
Acknowledgements
Your name will appear on the plaque of acknowledgements that we will place in the Econau Classroom.
> 11 Co-financiers
Kit "Ecotour"
> 26 Co-financiers
Kit "Learner"
We will send you everything by mail; enter your postal address when you register. Free shipping throughout Europe. For shipping outside of Europe, there is an additional shipping cost.
To enjoy during 2023/2024.
> 31 Co-financiers
Kit "Empower yourself!"
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Kit "Get down to work!"
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Kit "The wisdom of the gourmand/foodie”
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Kit "Delicious"
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Kit "Cook lover"
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Kit "Eat the Forest!"
To enjoy during 2023.
> 05 Co-financiers
Kit "Ecotour Premium"
Live a rural experience among the carob trees! Weekend at the Econau, with overnight accommodation and full board, for two people. Arrive on Saturday morning and stay until Sunday. Discover the Econau and its surroundings and the Ecotros estate. You will
accompany us in tasks such as carob or olive collection (depending on the season), carob products processing and elaboration with the *Garrofina.
To enjoy during 2023/2024.
> 02 Co-financiers
Kit "Meet L'Ametlla de Mar"
Activity designed for companies who want to share new experiences with their workers outside the usual work environment. We propose to spend a different morning with the oceanographers from the Plancton Diving company. We will begin the activity with an explanation of the flora and fauna that we easily find on the seafloor in L'Ametlla de Mar.
Then we will equip ourselves and dive into the water with a guide who will show us everything explained to us before. Upon getting out of the water, we will have an EcoNau products tasting: olive oil, nuts, creams and carob syrup...
It includes: surface diving equipment (goggles, tube and wet suit)
Maximum of 10 people per group/day.
To enjoy in autumn 2023 or spring 2024.
> 02 Co-financiers
Kit "Find the Lost Carob"
Activity designed for companies who want to share new experiences with their workers outside the usual work environment. We propose to you to come and get to know the EcoNau and the Barranc de Santes Creus.
We will start the day with a treasure hunt for groups inside the EcoTour track. While searching for the Lost Carob, you will know the environmental and cultural values that surround EcoNau.
Afterwards, we will have the Carob Chef, a special workshop on carob cuisine. We will cook a few dishes divided into groups, led by our Chef Montse from Garrofina, and we will finally evaluate which group has cooked the best dishes. We will eat them at ease around a
large table under the shade of a carob tree, accompanied by a delicious natural wine.
Maximum of 20 people per group/day.
> 00 Co-financiers