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Meet Zoe Vratskidi and Agkathas Farm Zoe Vratskidi's life is an inspired example of the power of change and dedication to achieving goals and dreams. With a rich background in agriculture and a professional career that anyone would envy, Zoe could easily have chosen a stable career as a flight attendant, where she had worked for several years. However, her heart led her elsewhere.
In the midst of the crisis, Zoe found the opportunity to return to the village, to nature, and to rural production. Armed with the necessary agricultural knowledge, she and her husband made the decision to permanently settle in Imathia, specifically in the village of Agkathia, and set up there a farm of traditional products, Agkathas Farm, which is even named after the region.
From idea to action
As a farmer, Zoe exceeded all expectations, demonstrating her passion and dedication to producing high-quality and nutritious products.
Her farm covers 115 acres of land. There, she produces and offers to the market high-nutritional-value traditional and diversified fruit products, enriched with nature's superfoods, without additives and preservatives, straight from the farm to the pots.
Among other products, she produces peach jam with chia seeds, without sugar & with grape juice, apple jam with 100% cold-pressed hemp oil, without sugar & with grape juice, peach compost in grape juice without sugar, either with vanilla or with mastic from Chios, as well as more premium products such as apple chutney with white Greek truffle and peach chutney with linseed and mustard.
Zoe herself sells these products mainly online, as there is the option of shipping with Box Now, while they come from peach and apple orchards that she maintains herself.
Participation in the "AgroAnelixi" accelerator
Zoe feels that her participation in the "AgroAnelixi - Farmers of the Future" program, implemented by the organization "New Agriculture New Generation", was a significant step that provided her with valuable tools to help her business evolve.
"AgroAnelixi" served as an accelerator for me. It provided me with knowledge about the new CAP, entrepreneurship in agri-food, food safety, product development, sustainability, marketing, trade, and much more, and it gave me the push I needed to achieve my goals," she says.
Looking to the future with steady steps Beyond the practical aspect, Zoe found in rural life the inner satisfaction and mental balance she needed. Contact with nature and daily work in the field gave her the strength and energy she needed to achieve her goals.
Through the farm she has created, Zoe proves that love for the land and nature can be transformed into a successful entrepreneurial initiative that combines tradition with innovation, offering high-quality and nutritious food to the local community and beyond.
Zoe Vratskidi participated in the fourth cycle of the AgroAnelixi program - "Farmers of the Future".
The program supports agri-food businesses, aiming to shape a new entrepreneurial mindset in the sector and develop new differentiated food products through sustainable business efforts.
It is implemented by the organization New Agriculture New Generation through the founding donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Sponsors of the fourth cycle of AgroInnovation - "Farmers of the Future" are DS Smith, ELBISCO, EFOOD, Letrina S.A., and Specialist Awards.
