Greetings from Mykanos. I can’t really send greetings from anywhere else, as this is where I am, and have been since February. Yes, we are still self-isolating on the farm, with Adriano making as few trips as possible to oversee workers, monitor the coffee processing and to visit the Co-Op to negotiate coffee prices, masked […]
Greetings from Mykanos, no longer the destination of choice for sophisticated international visitors. Before the news became mono-topical, there was a story in the press about Nespresso buying coffee from farms using child labour. They took great delight in adding a photo of George Clooney and challenging his moral credentials. The Guardian International Edition wrote […]
Happy New Year from Mykanos. Well the cosecha is over for now, as is the festive season, and life is getting back to normal, or whatever passes for normal here. Adriano and the team have been concentrating on doing the groundwork for the 2020 cosecha in October, pruning, fertilizing and weeding. We had some rain, […]
Greetings from Mykanos. As the cosecha winds down, Christmas has climaxed and the year-end is almost upon us, Adriano is getting ready for everything that entails. The season proper started on December 7thth with the day of the little candles, celebrating the definition of the Immaculate Conception as dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854. Everyone […]
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