Fruit & olive production at chateau carman

 

château carman is a 45 donum mainly citrus and olive grove on the foothills of the agla mountains, we have in the region of 2500 trees producing on average 5 tons of olives, 60 tons of lemons,  we have now grafted 800 of the mandarin trees into lemon trees, so in 3 to 4 years time we should be producing in the region of 150 tons of lemons

we also produce smaller quantities of pomegranates, apricots, oranges, seville oranges, avocado, cherry, walnuts, almonds, plums, figs, mulberries and much more  

we normally make some of these into preserves etc as well as being eaten by family and friends






we are presently in the process of installing an irrigation system, which long term will save us substantial amounts of money on labor as well as for water which we pay for on a fortnightly basis in the summer months

 as this is a reasonably new venture we would welcome any interest in any of our products from anywhere in the world. 
in October / November we prepare the domat olives, as well as the memecik olives and the kalamat olives that are grown at Château Carman and hopefully send them vacuum packed to the UK, some of these olives are picked when green and prepared in brine and lemon juice, we also pick them when they turn black and prepare them in dry salt. We will also be pressing approx 2.5 tons of these olives for extra virgin olive oil, although these olives are three times the size of our Cypriot olives we only get one liter of extra virgin olive oil from every ten kilos of olives

the extra virgin olive oil that is produced from these olives is a very tasty and highly sought after , this single estate extra virgin olive oil is sold under our château carman label


   
   


a picture of the house where the previous owner lived, we have since converted this into a 2 x 2 bedroom self contained apartments for guests




   

QUEEN OLIVES

these olives are the large variety picked in October / November
from our groves in Turkey where they are nowadays cured in small 10 gallon containers

please note our olives are cured naturally in salt, water and citric acid

nowadays depending on demand we also prepare our olives with various herbs,

beware of some commercially produced olives which are cured in lye (also known as caustic soda) some people are allergic to olives prepared in this way

these olives are all hand picked and in the case of the green ones, individually and traditionally scored by hand 

we have now started to produce on the farm pommegranate mollasses, sweet paprika flakes, hot chilli flakes, we also prepared our first batch of preserved lemons which was extremely successfull, my plans are to produce in the region of 500 kilos per annum, in 2009 we will start to produce walnut preserve, quince preserve, bergamot preserve, and much more and only using our own produce

i have also started to bring over and package sucuk from my cyprus farm this is made from the juice of grapes with dry almonds in the middle

just to give you an idea as to what is involved in producing pommegranate mollasses 

it take the juice of 12 liters of pommegranate to boil down adding salt to make one liter of mollasses this is what i will be bringing over this is not the commercially produced stuff with all the additives but 100% pure mollasses so expect the price to be high

 

our chilli and sweet paprika flakes are also grown on the farm and dried in the sun they are then taken to the local mill and turned to flakes after which we put the flakes out under the sun adding olive oil and salt, they remain under the sun for 3 to 5 days turning from a brick color to a dark red, at this point we pack and send to the uk

we welcome any inquiries regarding any of our produce

look out for our new products coming soon

 

  • melon candy
  • lemon candy
  • sevile orange candy
  • fig candy
  • baby walnut candy
  • eggplant candy
  • quince candy
  • pomegranate molasses
  • chili flakes
  • dried morrell mushrooms
  • sucuk (white grapejuice candy with almonds)
  • paluze (white grapejuice candy with aniseed)

 

please note everything is produced to organic standards

email chateaucarman@aol.com