Mediterranean Garden Society
Mediterranean Garden Society
The Corfu Branch of the MGS
Corfu Branch Joint Heads are Rosey Boehm and Christina Lambert. Members and prospective members please contact them by email with questions, ideas, suggestions.
Ελληνικό ιστότοπος του MGS
Forthcoming Events
Tuesday May 26 - Kerkira
Visit to Dr Kavvadia’s Organic Farm
During the Corfu Garden Festival we were lucky enough to arrive at Dr Kavvadia’s day of workshops and tastings in time to join a guided walk around the olive groves and the production plant. We spent some time hearing about the olive trees and the many plants growing in the meadows - their uses as food or medicine. It was fascinating.
The Mediterranean Garden Society has been invited by Apostolos and his team to take part in a walk around the olive groves at his farm with his herbalist Helena Remeijers to discover the many plants growing in the orchards and to learn more about their historical and current uses.
On the herbal walk at Dr Kavvadia’s Organic Farm, we will explore the olive groves, vegetable and herb gardens, and plant nursery, discovering a rich diversity of Mediterranean cultivated and wild plants.
We will see both cultivated and rewilded areas of the farm, gaining insight into their culinary, traditional, and medicinal uses, as well as how a regenerative system supports biodiversity, about Mediterranean plant knowledge and its connection to everyday life.
This will be a casual walk around the land talking about what we find. It will be interesting and informative - learning about edible plants and flowers which we usually walk past or note only as pretty.
The visit will start at 12.00. We expect the tour to be of about 1.5 hours duration.
After the farm tour we invite you to join us for an informal lunch at Restaurant Sgompos Cafe-Bar which s is two minutes drive from the farm.
Past Events
Saturday 16 March 2024
The First MGS Corfu Branch Event
It was a beautiful day for the inaugural event of the Corfu Branch of the Mediterranean Garden Society held at Dr Kavvadias Organic Farm, a few kilometres north of Corfu Town.
More than 80 people attended the event. Many of them already knew each other and some had not seen each other for some time and there was a lot of catching up to do.
Christina Lambert and Rosey Boehm gave a 10 minute introduction about the MGS and introduced themselves to the group. Following this Apostolos Kavvadias - owner and manager of the farm which produces multi-award winning organic olive oil, led us to a magnificent old olive tree in the olive grove. He gave a talk about when, why and how he cuts his olive trees to ensure that they produce a crop of olives every year. His assistant, up in the tree, gave a demonstration of the pruning of the tree.
He then answered many questions about looking after the trees, olive oil production and pressing, managing the olive groves and so on. We spent some time talking about using all the waste left over from the production of olive oil - the pruned matter from the trees themselves as well as the skins and stones left over from the pressing being put back on the land to feed the soil. Unfortunately the olive branches are usually burnt, adding to air pollution and global warming, what a waste of a precious resource - food for the soil
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