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
Past Events
May 2026
A visit to Dr Kavvadia's Organic Farm
More than 160 varieties of edible wild greens - horta - are to be found in Corfu, members of the island’s branch of the Mediterranean Garden Society heard during a walk on May 26.
Members were visiting Dr Kavvadia’s Organic Farm where they saw olive trees, some between 300 and 600 years old, used to make prize-winning oil. The visitors enjoyed cold tea made from infused olive leaves.
Herbalist Helena Remeijers described the therapeutic wild plants in the orchards and re-wilded areas, and showed the raised vegetable beds, where seaweed rinsed of salt is used as mulch and where companion planting is used instead of pesticides.
By Robin Ackroyd
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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