Costa Navarino, Greece: a food-lover's guide to the sustainable hotspot
"Now hit the tree with force," the gardener tells me while trying to stifle his laughter at the sight of me swinging a garden rake at a Koroneiki olive tree. Making the sound of raindrops, a dozen grape-sized fruits land on a green mesh sheet laid on the floor to collect them. They’ll then be transferred into a truck and eventually to a factory where the oil will be extracted.
It's harvest season in Messenia, the lush mountainous region of the Peloponnese, which is famous for its olives — and there couldn’t be a better setting to go picking for them. We're standing on Navarino Dunes in , a 1000-hectare private development located three hours from , surrounded by bright green rolling hills, fruit trees and one of several perfectly manicured golf courses on the property. The others are in and
