olive oil for the soul

Once again, it’s olive picking season, and at Eumelia there is a flurry of activity as the olives trees are pruned, and olives are gathered and sorted by residents, helpers and guests, some for the production of the farm’s organic biodynamic olive oil, used for culinary consumption, as well as for making soaps and body [...]

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eumelia’s animal instinct

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Gratitude: the Eumelia attitude!

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.                                            ~William Faulkner [...]

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Green tomatoes two ways

A few days ago we picked our last green tomatoes, and I got busy scouting out recipes for preserving them. I decided to go for a promising-sounding chutney recipe, as chutneys can be great not only with Indian food, which we are great fans of at Eumelia, but also as an accompaniment for cheeses and [...]

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Dream a little dream…

On October 27-30, Eumelia hosted a seminar titled Eu-body, Eu-spirit, taught by Alexandros Pfaff and Maria Angeli, and centering on finding true harmony and understanding within the self by doing exercises based on creative visualization, Butoh improvisation, Tai Chi, meditation, drawing and acting games. The teachers and participants spent three days on the farm making [...]

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