Zero-mile menus at Heraklion’s Candia Maris

At Metaxa’s three hotels in Crete and Santorini, guests can tuck into sustainable local produce, grown just a stone’s throw away from their dining table.

The luxury hotels – Creta Maris, Santo Maris Oia and Candia Maris – draw on the ancient farming practices of their ancestors, some of which go as far back as the Bronze Age. In the hotels’ organic gardens, herbs, fruits, nuts and vegetables grow sustainably in abundance. And here, the beds aren’t just for guests. The hotels use an age-old cultivation form dating back to the Minoans called Lazy Beds, which increases time and land productivity.

Sometimes when it comes to farming, simplicity is key. The savvy hotel farmers cultivate based on the seasons, combine complementary crops and use indigenous plants which naturally adapt to the local climate and soil, without the need for unnecessary human intervention.

The “Sustainable Supplies” initiative sees the hotels’ chefs and gardeners put their heads together to choose crops for the coming year, to shape delicious slow food menus which in turn benefit the soil and local environment. We can’t wait to dig in.

Visit Website: https://www.metaxahospitality.gr/about/sustainable-hotel-farming/