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Nikos Papadakis
6 min read
The olive trees on the hillside above Vamos are not beautiful in any conventional sense. They are gnarled, low, wide — their trunks twisted by centuries into shapes that suggest some ancient argument with the wind. The oldest ones here are over a thousand years old. The Stavrakakis family harvests them every November, by hand, on nets spread on the ground.
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"Buy Cretan olive oil directly from the producer if you can — roadside signs reading Elaiolado mark family farms."
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