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🚜 managing director: akhateli.org - an experimental vineyard/nursery focused on the agricultural traditions of the South Caucasus.
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Far superior photo of the pergola by videographer Polina Linovitskaja, who was visiting the farm one day. 🍇🌱
November 21, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Far superior photo of the pergola by videographer Polina Linovitskaja, who was visiting the farm one day. 🍇🌱
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Artichokes as graveside garnish - food exclusively for the dead. 😢 Samegrelo, Georgia 🪦🌱☠️
October 5, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Artichokes as graveside garnish - food exclusively for the dead. 😢 Samegrelo, Georgia 🪦🌱☠️
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Mixed-use development. Sadly, closed to the public.
July 6, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Mixed-use development. Sadly, closed to the public.
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საშინელი სეტყვა თელავში. ვენახები დაისეტყვა, განადგურდა მოსავალი. 🌱🍇⛈️🌿
June 12, 2024 at 8:43 PM
საშინელი სეტყვა თელავში. ვენახები დაისეტყვა, განადგურდა მოსავალი. 🌱🍇⛈️🌿
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Ruined bus stop mosaic of winemaking (top) and ladies making churchkhela, surrounded by oranges (?) 🌱🌰🍇🌿
Bonus poetry + despotic iconography!
Bonus poetry + despotic iconography!
March 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Ruined bus stop mosaic of winemaking (top) and ladies making churchkhela, surrounded by oranges (?) 🌱🌰🍇🌿
Bonus poetry + despotic iconography!
Bonus poetry + despotic iconography!
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New vineyard pest - it's stray puppy season in the village.🌱🌿
March 9, 2024 at 6:40 PM
New vineyard pest - it's stray puppy season in the village.🌱🌿
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March 1, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Never forget the coconut palm's official tribute song, penned by renowned Congresswoman Malinda Jackson Parker. 🌱🌾🧪
youtu.be/8k0GqLCAkIw?...
youtu.be/8k0GqLCAkIw?...
February 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Never forget the coconut palm's official tribute song, penned by renowned Congresswoman Malinda Jackson Parker. 🌱🌾🧪
youtu.be/8k0GqLCAkIw?...
youtu.be/8k0GqLCAkIw?...
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Our (captured) wild garlic, ღანძილი, delicious & potent - the true mark of springtime. 🌱🧄
February 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Our (captured) wild garlic, ღანძილი, delicious & potent - the true mark of springtime. 🌱🧄
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Guard-kitten at the drying house, Meghri, Armenia 🌱
February 9, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Guard-kitten at the drying house, Meghri, Armenia 🌱
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The folly of Soviet make-work agriculture: see these terraced slopes? Imagine the years of brutal labor that went into forming them from the bare, rocky, granite gravel, silicate dust mountainsides.
All that misery in a failed attempt to supercharge agricultural productivity in Meghri, Armenia. 🌱 🌿
All that misery in a failed attempt to supercharge agricultural productivity in Meghri, Armenia. 🌱 🌿
January 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM
The folly of Soviet make-work agriculture: see these terraced slopes? Imagine the years of brutal labor that went into forming them from the bare, rocky, granite gravel, silicate dust mountainsides.
All that misery in a failed attempt to supercharge agricultural productivity in Meghri, Armenia. 🌱 🌿
All that misery in a failed attempt to supercharge agricultural productivity in Meghri, Armenia. 🌱 🌿
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The pomegranate no one could reach - now freezer burnt. 🌱Kakheti, Georgia.
January 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
The pomegranate no one could reach - now freezer burnt. 🌱Kakheti, Georgia.
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Desolate hilltop, peering through this tall wild rose (rubiginosa?) 🌱🏵️ toward the mountains of northernmost Iran.
December 15, 2023 at 1:27 PM
Desolate hilltop, peering through this tall wild rose (rubiginosa?) 🌱🏵️ toward the mountains of northernmost Iran.
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Akhateli Acres finally assembled 100 followers @bsky.app, at least 75% of which are real people!
Thx especially to the #GardeningFeed for attention & support🌱
If there’s interest, we'll continue to offer insights into our little corner of the world - where wine was invented & fruit reigns supreme.
Thx especially to the #GardeningFeed for attention & support🌱
If there’s interest, we'll continue to offer insights into our little corner of the world - where wine was invented & fruit reigns supreme.
January 7, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Akhateli Acres finally assembled 100 followers @bsky.app, at least 75% of which are real people!
Thx especially to the #GardeningFeed for attention & support🌱
If there’s interest, we'll continue to offer insights into our little corner of the world - where wine was invented & fruit reigns supreme.
Thx especially to the #GardeningFeed for attention & support🌱
If there’s interest, we'll continue to offer insights into our little corner of the world - where wine was invented & fruit reigns supreme.
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Here’s a brief, insightful look at a Ugandan fermented banana homebrew called 'tonto' - and the scarcity of special local banana cultivars required to make the drink. 🌱 🌾🧪
apnews.com/article/ugan...
apnews.com/article/ugan...
A boozy banana drink in Uganda is under threat as authorities move to restrict home brewers
Tonto is a legendary traditional drink in Uganda. But the fermented banana juice is under threat as authorities move to regulate the production of what are considered illicit home brews.
apnews.com
January 3, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Here’s a brief, insightful look at a Ugandan fermented banana homebrew called 'tonto' - and the scarcity of special local banana cultivars required to make the drink. 🌱 🌾🧪
apnews.com/article/ugan...
apnews.com/article/ugan...
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Where little else grows, you'll always find a feral fig infiltrating the walls of a ruin. 🌱Fieldwork sighting - 🏺Meghri, Armenia.
December 26, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Where little else grows, you'll always find a feral fig infiltrating the walls of a ruin. 🌱Fieldwork sighting - 🏺Meghri, Armenia.
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In theory, it only gets better from here.
🌱🌞Happy solstice from Akhateli Acres! 🌿🧪
🌱🌞Happy solstice from Akhateli Acres! 🌿🧪
December 20, 2023 at 5:21 PM
In theory, it only gets better from here.
🌱🌞Happy solstice from Akhateli Acres! 🌿🧪
🌱🌞Happy solstice from Akhateli Acres! 🌿🧪
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🌱 The farm's lone medlar tree (Mespilus germanica - მუშმულა).
Most folks around here just ignore this fruit now.
[Sometimes conflated with the more common loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, მუშმულა სუბტროპიკული) - a slightly less-neglected fruit, but no selected hybrids exist here - much like medlar].
Most folks around here just ignore this fruit now.
[Sometimes conflated with the more common loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, მუშმულა სუბტროპიკული) - a slightly less-neglected fruit, but no selected hybrids exist here - much like medlar].
December 11, 2023 at 12:20 PM
🌱 The farm's lone medlar tree (Mespilus germanica - მუშმულა).
Most folks around here just ignore this fruit now.
[Sometimes conflated with the more common loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, მუშმულა სუბტროპიკული) - a slightly less-neglected fruit, but no selected hybrids exist here - much like medlar].
Most folks around here just ignore this fruit now.
[Sometimes conflated with the more common loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, მუშმულა სუბტროპიკული) - a slightly less-neglected fruit, but no selected hybrids exist here - much like medlar].
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Many churches/monasteries have adjacent gardens tended by clergy. But few mediaeval cemeteries get this deluxe treatment of being converted into a compact fruit/nut orchard.
Much respect to the keeper of these grounds.
The massive stones are grave markers.
#Yerevan #Armenia #agriculture 🌱 🌾 🌿
Much respect to the keeper of these grounds.
The massive stones are grave markers.
#Yerevan #Armenia #agriculture 🌱 🌾 🌿
November 22, 2023 at 11:53 AM
Many churches/monasteries have adjacent gardens tended by clergy. But few mediaeval cemeteries get this deluxe treatment of being converted into a compact fruit/nut orchard.
Much respect to the keeper of these grounds.
The massive stones are grave markers.
#Yerevan #Armenia #agriculture 🌱 🌾 🌿
Much respect to the keeper of these grounds.
The massive stones are grave markers.
#Yerevan #Armenia #agriculture 🌱 🌾 🌿
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Meanwhile back on the 🌱 farm, this persimmon (კარალიოკი, Diospyros kaki) is finally plundered by high winds & hungry birds.
November 5, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Meanwhile back on the 🌱 farm, this persimmon (კარალიოკი, Diospyros kaki) is finally plundered by high winds & hungry birds.
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Vestigial flower holding on to a giant, mature pomegranate. Meghri, Syunik, Armenia - where autumn has barely started. 🌱
October 30, 2023 at 6:54 PM
Vestigial flower holding on to a giant, mature pomegranate. Meghri, Syunik, Armenia - where autumn has barely started. 🌱
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A very special little 🍇 harvest on this young vine. 🌱
October 20, 2023 at 6:27 PM
A very special little 🍇 harvest on this young vine. 🌱
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This accidentally artful block of tufa will be placed in our Armenian agricultural section, along with hundreds of other stones transported for that purpose.
Every farmer becomes an amateur geologist eventually🗿🌋🌱
Every farmer becomes an amateur geologist eventually🗿🌋🌱
October 11, 2023 at 2:32 PM
This accidentally artful block of tufa will be placed in our Armenian agricultural section, along with hundreds of other stones transported for that purpose.
Every farmer becomes an amateur geologist eventually🗿🌋🌱
Every farmer becomes an amateur geologist eventually🗿🌋🌱