You can adopt a Greek olive tree too! Let’s get acquainted….
My name is Byron Aidonis and I am a fifth generation farmer and certified organic cultivator. Our love of nature led me, my wife and our two little children to live on one of our farms in a green bioclimatic house, independent in terms of irrigation and power. Our goal is to uphold our tradition, the cultivation of olives, and encourage as many people as possible to return to nature and allow it to reward them.
We invite people from around the globe to share in this endless journey of tasting and inner peace, two necessary and valuable assets for anyone.
Why adopt an olive tree?
You increase the chance of survival of the trees, you support ecological farming and reduce the use of chemical fertilizers which destructively impact on land and humans, prevent the complete industrialization of the production procedures which destroys product quality, help us uphold our tradition and produce olives and olive oil of the finest quality. Read More
You offer yourself a gift of health and wellness. An adoption can be also a wedding or birthday gift, establishing deep connection with olive not only on a nutritional level, but also symbolically. It is known that olive, since antiquity, has been a symbol of eternity, wealth, hope, power and beauty.
Learn about or lands…
Numerous studies have shown that olive oil composition depends firstly on climate, secondly on land quality and thirdly on olive variation. The two rare olive kinds, ritsi and tsotili, the Mediterranean climate, the geographical location, the land composition, the closeness to a Natura area, the combination of sea and mountain offer extra virgin olive oil with a full and distinctive taste, rich in polyphenols and antioxidants, which fight conditions like high blood pressure, heart problems, corrosive stress and high cholesterol. Olive oil with anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing properties.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, considered certain olive oils therapeutic for over 60 conditions. With your adoption, you will receive your adoption document, which is an olive colored scroll. On the scroll, you will find printed sayings of ancient Greek philosophers on nutrition, health and life. Every tree will bear a wooden sign with your family name. Photos and videos about the life and the growth of the tree will also be available. If you wish, you can participate in the gathering of olives, digging, trimming and generally the care of the tree. You can combine the activity with your holiday, as our lands geographically belong to Epirus, a part of Greece 7 kilometers away from Parga, a land of splendid geographical beauty, since the picturesque beaches and the sites make it one of the most important destinations in Greece.
Finally, remember Hippocrates’s words; “ “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
