Activities

Daily

You will never be left with free time a farm. From the dawn till dusk, there are endless tasks that need to be carried out. Some are routine farm tasks and some are seasonal that need to be done at a specific time or a lot of things can be overturned. If by the end of the day  we complain that our physical capabilities have been used to their maximum, the exhaustion gets paid off by the satisfaction of  receiving the results of our work. And the real happiness we get from living a real life close to nature. Stress levels in the farm are limited. It stress ever appears, it quickly disappears by enjoying our rich organic home-made food and by having a couple of glasses of our spicy home made wine!

Home bred animals

Even though the farm is identified mainly by its crops and cultivation, the first place in our space and in our hearts gets taken by our animals! Each one has its own name and individual character! Every day we feed and water them with much love and in return they give us healthy and nutritious produce which we consume.

Apart from feeding and watering them, every day we move them to their pasture & clean their stables. From the hen houses we collect the day’s eggs and from sheep and goats we collect milk daily.

Crops

All crops are seasonal. The orderly process of cultivation is so natural that cannot help but reminding us that time passes smoothly, normally and unhurriedly. As each season comes to an end, a new one follows, making our crop duties replace each other naturally

The cultivation of our crops includes various tasks such as tillage, semination, planting, watering, spraying, trimming and of course picking up the various vegetables, fruit and herbs.

Our olive trees demand the most intense  year round care by us, to produce their oil in the winter. The vine yards require spraying and clearing from dry leaves to reach from spring until the start of the summer. We then reach harvest in September, which is a celebration in itself.

We grow vegetables throughout the year. In the summer all our vegetables require intense watering,  which is an exhausting process in the heat. But then we collect the results and taste them & forget the intensity of the heat and workload we had to do for them. We produce corn, cereal and cowgrass for all our animals.

Our specific works are explained in greater detail at the Farm Calendar.

Collection and use of our crops

Below is the list of ways we use our crops after their collection:

We make bread

We made cheese and yoghurt

We produce wine and vinegar

We produce various liquors, jams and traditional fruit desserts

We produce various meet and cheese delicacies

We dry fruit and herbs

We produce various scented oils and soaps

We produce daily meals for us and our visitors

Other activities that are available if pre-arranged

Aromatherapy, phytotherapy

Cycling

Walking, trekking, running

Horse riding

Yoga, massage

Painting and other handicraft activities for children

Various types of embroidery making

Archery

Teaching of traditional dances

Various kids games

Visits to various places of interest (historic, religious, traditional, etc)

Attending various festivals & fetes