marsh and lagoon system
Baxedaki Ecological Farm rests just 35 meters above sea level in the Bay Area (Kampos) 3 km from the shoreline. Long ago, this was a shallow sea, marsh, and lagoon system. Later, it became a beach, its story still visible in the sub-soil: smooth pebbles hidden in sandy layers, carried down from the mountains, by rivers and streams.
When the Holocene dawned, the current geological epoch, lasting from approximately 11,700 years ago to the present day, its warming climates melted the ice, seas rose, and Evia separated from the mainland. The Euripus Strait was born.
the Plains of Istiaia
Our olive oil is more than fruit pressed from trees—it is the soul of our land.
Where endless olive groves now stretch across the plain of Istiaia, there once lay a vast marsh, untamed and silent. In the 19th century, Dalip Aga drained these waters, revealing fertile soil ready to be reborn. After the liberation of Euboea in 1833, visionary Georgios Filaretos recognized this land’s promise and planted the first olive trees.
Resilient and blessed, those trees took root. Many still stand today, silent witnesses to history, continuing to give their fruit generation after generation.
rich alluvial soil
Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, beach, or similar settings. Floodplain alluvium can be highly fertile, and supported some of the earliest human civilizations.
Here at Baxedaki the land is nourished by the alluvial deposits of the Xirias River. The Mediterranean sun, the soft Euboean climate, and the sea breeze from the North Gulf of Evia caress the groves. The olives ripen slowly, naturally and without haste, just as all things of worth should.
From this patient rhythm comes an olive oil that is pure and honest, vibrant with aroma and strength. Each drop carries memory: of a land reborn from marsh into paradise, of people bound to their soil, of traditions handed down unbroken.
To taste this oil is to taste North Euboea itself—its plains, forests, its earth, its sun and sea. More than nourishment, it is a bridge between past and present: a treasure infused with memory, flavour, topography and life.
