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Healthy soil = healthy food = healthy people This photo is from the event "Harvest your breakfast." that takes place on "Sunday", during one of the programs of Agrion Terra Farm, in Crete. Above photo: Come and meet one of the families that live in Agrion Terra Farm! Here is one of our very own egg producers. Description of event 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!
| 08:00:00 Harvest your breakfast.
| 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.
| 09:00:00 Bread kneading and baking
| 10:30:00 Botanical tour, medicinal herbs.
| 12:30:00 Herbal remedies.
Introduction to the teas made out of Cretan herbs that grow in the wilderness, or even sometimes cultivated in the garden.
After our botanical walk, Marianna first takes us to her workshop, where we admire the work she is doing with local herbs. She explains how she extracts essential oils, the use of each oil... just everything you want to know. Marianna, our professional herbalist and botanotherapist, performs herbal tea preparation. She explains how a number of common health problems, such as the common cold and indigestion or headaches, malaise, etc., can be treated successfully with the use of herbs thus avoiding taking medicine that can have unpleasant or annoying side-effects. Furthermore, as she explains, even for more serious ailments, under the guidance of the competent physician, herbs can play an important role in the patient’s cure and relieve from the symptoms.
Among the diseases and ailments normally treated by botanotherapists are allergies, arthritis, infections, circulatory problems, liver diseases, gynecological problems (relating to menstrual cycle), skin diseases, stress related problems (headaches, insomnia, palpitation).
| 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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