ZAIKOS ARISTOTELIS AND LEONIDAS<\/p>\n
NEOCHOROUDA, THESSALONIKI<\/p>\n
Just 2 km from Fromagerie ARVANITI the farmer Aristotle (Telis) Zaikos and his brother, Leonidas, keep since 1983 their farm, continuing the family ranching tradition which passed from their grandparents hands to their parents and now themselves.<\/p>\n
Telis and Leonidas are engaged on a daily basis with the milking, feeding, care and grazing of 850 goats rearing in their unit.<\/p>\n
Most goats belong to the Skopelos tribe and the other in the race of Damascus. They are all regularly checked by the Pentalofos Veterinary Services for the excellent health, living conditions and nutrition..<\/p>\n
Every day, around 7:00 and until 9: 30-10: 00, it is the milking time in modern bail of the Zaikos brothers. There, the goats are placed in the appropriate positions, in batches of 40, and they are milked in an electromechanical way. The procedure takes 2-3 hours depending on the season and the available hands as more individuals are periodically employed in milk collection.<\/p>\n
After milking, Telis shepherd undertakes to lead the whole herd to the surrounding hills, like Sivri, Gorito, Tsitsmitska the Tzarven Kamer, with stops in drinkers at Soumpana and Bormpanar to freely graze the local flora, consisting mainly from clover, holly, sheep grass, ambelaki and suma.<\/p>\n
At 18:30 they come back to corral for rest and care from the farmers.<\/p>\n
Telis milks his goats every day from December to next October to offer fresh milk as raw material for the production of traditional ARVANITI cheeses. The period with the highest milk production is the period from March to May and, so the production can reach up to 450 kgs per day.<\/p>\n
The annual milk production for the Zaikos brothers reach 100 tonnes.<\/p>\n
Telis investment to the modern bail has given him propulsion for more increased production in recent years and provides work for at least three more persons for the needs of the livestock unit, helping to develop the local economy and maintain labor potential in Greek countryside.<\/p>\n
We are SO PROUD of our farmers.<\/p>\n
We are SO PROUD of Telis and Leonidas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ZAIKOS ARISTOTELIS AND LEONIDAS NEOCHOROUDA, THESSALONIKI Just 2 km from Fromagerie ARVANITI the farmer Aristotle (Telis) Zaikos and his brother, Leonidas, keep since 1983 their farm, continuing the family ranching tradition which passed from their grandparents hands to their parents and now themselves. Telis and Leonidas are engaged on a daily basis with the milking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-producers-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}