Don't imagine we're some group of extremists living off spring onions and wearing potato sacks. Our origins are from the area itself, and we happened to have property around Milia. It was our love of the place that prompted us to set about restoring and protecting the old settlement. And in order to dissolve any suspicions about who we are, here are some photographs of ourselves.We're just regular people. we're even plainer in reality, and our motives are as plain as we are. We've just got an appetite for hard work and creating, and, above all, a sound respect for the human being, the environment and our local traditions.The philosophy of Milia is to preserve the natural life cycle in such a way that is friendly towards both the environment and the human being. We work according to the traditional principles and history of Crete.We actually throw away very few items. All natural products are recycled, and we try to find alternative uses for everything else. All edible fruit and vegetables more... end up in the kitchen, while their remnants and other plants feed the animals, who provide us in turn with milk and cheese, meat, leather, wool and manure.Our efforts towards an improved natural environment are intensified every year with reforestation and the cultivation of a wider variety of crops and other products. We appreciate and delight in the peculiarities which each season has to offer. In our recognition that every thoughtless act towards the environment has its price, we practice humility in everything we do.We try to promote culture in its essential form by keeping tradition alive, all the while keeping up with current methods and ideas. And, we consider it crucial that our elders remind and instruct the younger generations in how their forefathers lived.

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