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Healthy soil = healthy food = healthy people
This photo is from the event "Food preservation at home." that takes place on "Saturday", during one of the programs of Agrion Terra Farm, in Crete.
Description of event
We follow Stelios while showing how people in the village preserve their food in olive oil and vinegar. We will harvest various vegetables, wash them, slice them and prepare them to be preserved. How to preserve olives in salt is a local highlight.

Saturday
08:00:00 Harvest your breakfast.
Come to the farm, early in the morning, and participate in the collection of the ingredients of your breakfast. Milk the goats, harvest vegetables, collect the eggs from the chickens.

Agrion Terra Farm is surrounded by extensive olive orchards, vineyards and vegetable garden. We will find the goats under an olive tree and milk them; "visit" the chickens and collect fresh eggs; walk through the vegetable garden and harvest vegetables. Or... we will simply follow Stelios and watch his way of doing it!

08:30:00 Breakfast
All breakfast ingredients are home made organic products. Breakfast includes: Bread, cretan rusk, two types of cheese, yoghurt, honey, two types of marmelade, butter, eggs, various vegetables, fresh orange juice, coffee. Coffee is conventionally provided.

You may enjoy your breakfast and still join our morning activity, since they take place at the same location, in Agrion Terra Farm, in Adele village, in Rethymnon. Today our morning activity is bread kneading and baking.

10:00:00 Wild greens and vegetables. Collection from the wilderness.


Stelios will show us the proper species of wild greens and vegetables that are right to collect at that season. He will describe basic methods of organic agriculture that he uses for producing his organic vegetables. He will be accompanied by Kostas, an agronomist specialized in organic agriculture. Kostas is the consultant of Agrion Terra group, as far as it concerns organic agriculture.

12:00:00 Wild green and vegetables. Post harvest handling and cooking.


Wash the greens, prepare them and cook them... boiled freshed wild greens, served with olive oil taste much better than you could ever imagine. We prepare the cwild greens in 4 different ways.

13:00:00 Lunch


Our lunch takes place in the kafeneion of Manolis. A house atmosphere where we share the food of our friend and his wife. Manolis produces most of his food at his backyard... enough for all of us.

13:00:00 Accommodation



14:30:00 Free time, or tailor made optional activities.
This is YOUR time! Free to swim, or settle down and get lazy!!! The more active ones will have the opportunity to participate in fascinating excursions which are organised outside the premises of the organic farms, accompanied by experienced professionals. We will be happy to arrange all the details fof you.

AGRION TERRA suggests a tour to the historical monastery of Preveli, at the south coast of Rethymnon. After the monastery we visit the gorge of Limni, Preveli, a Natura 200 protected area of unique natural beauty.

18:00:00 Food preservation at home.


We follow Stelios while showing how people in the village preserve their food in olive oil and vinegar. We will harvest various vegetables, wash them, slice them and prepare them to be preserved. How to preserve olives in salt is a local highlight.

19:00:00 Dinner.
It is time to savour the delights of Crete in a place that we have choosen especially for you. Dinner includes the highlights of the delicacies we have been introduced to during the day. Sorry guys... beverages not included...

Our emphasis tonight is in the use of various kinds of olive oil and of aromatic olive oil in cooking. We taste them on salads, boiled vegetables, cooked food and fish. Taste the 5 different kinds of Agrion Terra olive oils on food. The 5 kinds are: pure, with 20% lemon juice, with 20% lemon juice and oregano, with essential oils of orange fruit, with vinegar and wild herbs.


This is the detailed schedule of the days included in the current program.
Saturday
08:00:00 Harvest your breakfast.
08:30:00 Breakfast
10:00:00 Wild greens and vegetables. Collection from the wilderness.
12:00:00 Wild green and vegetables. Post harvest handling and cooking.
13:00:00 Lunch
13:00:00 Accommodation
14:30:00 Free time, or tailor made optional activities.
18:00:00 Food preservation at home.
19:00:00 Dinner.

Sunday
08:00:00 Harvest your breakfast.
08:30:00 Breakfast
09:00:00 Bread kneading and baking
10:30:00 Botanical tour, medicinal herbs.
12:30:00 Herbal remedies.
13:30:00 Lunch
15:00:00 Free time, or tailor made optional activities.
18:30:00 Cheese making at home
19:30:00 Dinner.
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