Herbs and Medicines

Nature is the ultimate Teacher, our Mother and The Healer. It’s a system that holds all the answers and all the information we need to live a good healthy life. Re-Green’s need to feel safe, to take responsibility of our own health and the fact that we live isolated from the doctors and the hospitals, lead us to turn to nature with the intention to learn how She could help us. Through detailed observation, through books and research, and with the invaluable wisdom of our teacher Maria Skarli we managed to completely ban chemical treatments from our life and today we are proud to have a very thorough collection of natural medicines and home made products. We enjoy a herbal life and a herbal home.
Seasonal harvests, healing remedies (syrups, herbal tinctures, herbal oils, bee wax creams, sun screens, creams and more), home made cosmetics, earth friendly natural cleaning products and children friendly remedies is some of the things we make for us, for our community and our guests.

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iris … like a rainbow

Iris unguicularis ssp cretensis, a winter flower
The name of this plant comes from the rainbow. Such are the colours of this flower and is various species.
it’s a perennial aromatic and medicinal plant with large blue-violet flowers containing white and yellow patterns. Well we never imagined the extent of medicinal uses of this magical plant : antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-cancer properties as well as it can be used to combat allergies, to suppress post-menopausal symptoms and cardiovascular therapies. And the list go on…
It blooms in winter and continues in spring in the colder regions

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kalamari?

Kalamari, extra terrestrials or… Amazing succulents!!!

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thank you Greece Is

Oh Sweet Greece. So beautiful, so colorful, so blue and gold, so nurturing, so diverse, lovely, blessed, wild and sweet, so big though so small!

Thank you Greece Is. It’s an honor to be featured in your latest edition.
This Saturday – Sunday (13-14/01) in The New York Times International Edition – Kathimerini English Edition available throughout Greece.
Or visit www.greece-is.com … we are featured in page 77.

 

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chimonanthus… winter sweet!

Guess what? This folk is called Chimonanthus. It’s a Greek word meaning the flower of winter.(χειμωνανθος) It’s also called winter sweet and the name says it all. In the winter landscape where you hardly see any flowers, this beautiful shrub blossoms and these very fragrant flowers appear. This is what the picture can’t tell. The amazing sweet fragrance around the plant that makes it a must for your patio. I took a look in my favourite source of information pfaf.org (plants for a future) to find out that the flowers are edible and perfect to flavour and scent our teas. But also there are a few medicinal uses such as antiphlogistic, antireumatic and sialagogue. Their essential oils are used to treat colds – how fitting with the nature of this plant to create flowers in the heart of winter. We could even use the flowers to make perfume. Winter Sweet!

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permaculture @ re-green

agriculture/natural building/herbs&medicines/yoga/healing

We really don’t like the potential of limitation when we need to use terminology to describe life changing events. We also try not to be dogmatic. Observation, new realizations, adaptations, re-designing, and of course mistakes are part of the game. Our intention is to be able to learn how to live harmoniously with the Earth and Spirit.

Unfortunately the disconnection of the modern human from nature is such that lets face it! We need a “manual” of how to stir a flowing happy and healthy life as an integral part of Nature. Through the path of Permaculture we get the motivation and inspiration to change our lives.

Coming from the fields of computer engineering and marketing with complete ignorance in this life style not knowing where to begin, we found in Permaculture a good point of start, the first steps leading to an advanced design for the future! Permaculture is the perfect package for modern man to be able to re-construct his life from scratch and the perfect content of education for children of today. It brings in all the components of the ecosystem, all the knowledge, the ancestral and the technological wisdom, the elements of the sun, the wind, the water and the earth, all the practical principles and spiritual ethics, all wrapped up empowering us to make a holistic approach to sustainable and regenerative living.

In 2011 was the turning point in our life when we attended the first ever Permacutlure Design Course (PDC) to be held in Greece. Ever since our life changed miraculously so we decided to honour this process and invite annually our precious teachers back to Greece to offer this invaluable knowledge of a hands on system!

In 2017 we felt we had accomplished the plan of 2011 and we organized our second PDC to design our dreams in Seliana, not only for the next era of Re-Green but also for the Community of Good Neighbours that had emerged meanwhile with new people who decided to make their home around Re-Green.

This process is dynamic and regenerative and the more we surrender to nature the more we understand that Re-Green is becoming an entity of its own, and we believe it will continue to flourish like a balanced ecosystem even after we are gone…

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