Mykonos Vioma Organic Farm
Biodynamic vineyard on a former monastery plot, where classical music is piped between the vine rows as a growing experiment.
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This guide to Mykonos Vioma Organic Farm traces how Nikos Asimomytis left a career auditing banks in Athens to revive an abandoned monastery vineyard in the Maou valley in 1994. You'll hear how he trained under agronomist Enzo Nastati in Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic method, banning chemicals and letting farm animals work the soil instead of machinery, and how he added a stranger ingredient: speakers piping classical music through the vines. The guide follows his decades-long argument with skeptical neighbors over what this unlikely stretch of soil could grow.
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