“The schooner of Stravos Anestis carries acorns to Trieste.”
From the book “The Trees We Love, We Wound! An Ode to Three Trees: the Olive, the Oak, the Pine” by forest scientist Antonios Kapetanios.
They are everywhere – or once were. In the Cyclades, Lemnos, Lesvos, Samos, Skyros, Patmos, Corfu, Lefkada, Kefalonia…
On Kea, acorns are still milled into flour, and systematic cultivation continues to this day.
On Tinos, as captured in a photograph by Antonios Kapetanios, they lie slanted alongside the rocks – both carved by the relentless northeasterly winds that usually batter the island.
Enjoy listening!