In this article I record my personal experiences of consuming food that had expired (i.e. beyond the stated expiry date).The consumption was either while fresh or after cooking. 10% of the 88 million tonnes of food waste in the European Union ends up in the trash due to misinterpretation of the expiry date The European
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2011 started with the kalliergo.gr a journey into the unknown. Where the unknown was plants, crops, seeds, plant diseases, the garden, flowers, trees, insects, nature itself. John Sadly, it was preceded by the death of my father John in 2008. A turning point that made me go through his records and try to find out
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We find out what the ideal garden type is.Garden types. A historical journey through the gardens of modern Greece and their use.What is the ideal garden type and why. Our opinion on what the ideal garden is is pretty much a personal matter. Some people want to have a beautiful garden where everything is neat
The sunflowers survived the ants that “loved” them when they were small plants, the winds that wanted to bend them and knock them down. Now it was time for them to bear fruit. One by one the flowers are fertilized and turn into sunflower seeds. This is my first time growing sunflowers, so forgive my
Sunflower seed is born from the sunflower flower (sun plant) Read More »
I have been involved in gardening, plants and hobby farming for over 10 years in Greece. I grow mostly in the cottage, and occasionally in pots in the city, namely Athens, Greece. Before (I’m not ashamed to admit it), I had nothing to do with the land. As I say,“I hadn’t stooped, stone unturned.” A
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The garden man is not an exceptional kind of person. He is not perfect. He is not sinless. He is not ideal. He does not know everything. He is a simple man who, under certain circumstances or luck, has rediscovered that the earth is not just to be trodden on or covered with cement. It
