Another herb endemic to Crete and growing only on steep rocks is Cretan dittany, Origanum dictamnus, and diktamo or erontas (Love), in Greek. It is a herb with a long story, famous since ant...
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And some more pictures of the Malotira or Cretan Mountain tea collection.. somehow I do not manage to get them in the right order, but anyhow.. this pictures just so that you can appreciate how...
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Then we were out collecting the endemic Cretan 'mountain tea' or Malotira as the locals call it. Its scientific name is Sideritis syriaca ssp. syriaca. It is endemic to Crete, and even here it ...
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What a biotope... high up in the mountains... We are over 1000 meters high.. Salvia pomifera, flowering now.... beautiful... And then collecting Helichchrysum microphyllum, Everla...
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I owe you a huge update... but my little cafe has taken all the time, the house, then food, the washings to do, oils to be bottled etc, have taken all the time. but now, here is the herbal news...
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Well, this year was, or is, quite special.. it has been raining here until a month ago. All the herbs are late, and now they ned collecting all at the same time. So we went for Lavender... laven...
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So, friends... Now we made our little cafe here in Kallikratis... it is still cold, we have not been able to collect any plants as yet. But we made the cafe, put the signs up around... its a wee...
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Snow again, and beautiful... we were snowed in for 3 days, no electricity, no telephone.. but we had a generator and benzine to be taken from my car to work it... www.wild...
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Well, winter months, and not much going on.. the shepherds have left for the coastal villages, its raining and raining, so our deposits fill with water, thats a good thing.. As for the water ...
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A few days ago, we turned our shop into our workshop.. we were making soap... You can see, everything is ready now, the frames are lined with paper, and the soap turning pot is ready... We he...
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So, the wonder has occurred, and it snowed here in Kallikratis!! For two days the world was white, the roads blocked.. we were snowed in!! Extremely beautiful... except, that we had planned a ...
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Here some pictures from the Christmas market in Chania.. We shared a stall with Gill , the Lavender lady in Crete, and also had some aromalamps made by Vangelio, the lady you can see above......
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Hello.. The day before yesterday, in the evening, we got a mail from Luca Gianotti. He introduced himself as a walker, and asked if he could come by Kallikratis and see us tthe next day. Ofcourse...
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Hello there.. the last weeks we have been collecting Chastetree fruits/seeds- Vitex agnus castus- down by the beach.. the weather has been fine, not too hot, but still warm enough for a swim i...
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So, here is an article about the water problem from todays local paper, Haniotika Nea: You could translate it with Google translate.. And yesterday, they showed the issue in the local TV news.....
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Hello there Well, so far we have collected some 250 local signatures and 169 from locals, friends and supporters from all over via the online petition.. we will keep on collecting signatures, i...
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Hello again, we managed to create an online petition, demanding the an immediate and serious solution to the water problem in our village. You can have a look at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/...
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Hello there, Yesterday we formulated and printed out petition lists, demanding an immediate and final solution for the water problem in Kallikratis. Last night, we collected the first 40 signatur...
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So friends, here we are, all of us who contributed to a historical action for water here in Kallikratis, an action the like of which has not ever been seen before.. We were all willing to take t...
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Yesterday then, in the morning, we ordered the water to fill up the deposits.. Babis and Johnny went to collect manure from a neighbor, Andreas the goatherd, shovelled it into sacks to use ...
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We slept late.. Christos the driller came in the early afternoon to pick up his second truck.. He came with chocolates for everyone.. Quiet it was, people had left, we spend the day with Will...
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In the morning of the 28th, Nikos and Babis looked at the drilling spot, and found a different kind of stone, which came up during the last meters of yesterdays drilling, and we speculated, i...
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Well, folks and friends, sorry for a few days of silence.. it was just overwhelming everything..we went through a lot of emotions.. but now we have recovered, and are seeing a new beginning i...
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So, we drilled to 152 meters, and did not find a drop of water. We spend everything we had, we tried everything. We played a risk, and we lost.. The drilling team just finished pulling up the 150...
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