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We support the local community by giving charity to the church of the nearby Vourvoulos village which provides help to poor people. We do this three times a year. We encourage our guests to visit local attractions such as music events, theatres, and ecclesiastic fiestas. We encourage guests to eat at captain John's fish tavern, 800meters away from the windmill, at Pori small harbour. We also suggest buying local products from the neighbour Mrs. Stella such as fava beans, dry tomatoes, caper and local wine.
We use solar system to heat the water and energy efficient light bulbs and appliances. We turn off the lights and turn appliances off stand by when not in use. We have locks on rooms that turn off appliances when guests go out except refrigerator. We use low energy consumption, A category, for the electrical devices. For the offset of carbon emission we have planted a lot of trees and plants. We collect rainwater for use in the house. All the plants and the garden vegetables grow up without any water (the volcanic ground keeps the nightly moisture). We have 100 m3 underground water tank to collect rainwater.
We have showers and half flush toilets. We change seats and towels and we clean the house once a week. We use Korres natural products for shampoo and shower gel and we plan to use more eco-cleaning products. We use only animal manure for the garden from mules and biological fertilizer products. We make compost from garden and kitchen waste. We leave an area of our garden uncut for beautiful spring flowers like margaritas, poppies, etc. We feed food waste to the stray dogs and cats. We recycle plastic, glass and paper. We only use internet for our reservations so we do not use any paper and we do that from our home.
We employ 2 women for cleaning the house, one of them is from Fira town and the other one from Oia village. We also use 2 men for gardening and they are from Pori village. We buy local products from our neighbours such as tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, figs, Indian figs, caper, fava beans, organic cheese and meat. Also we cultivate our own vegetable garden behind the windmill. In addition in our field we have figs, Indian figs, olive trees, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, zucchinis, eggplants and a lot of grapes. We use local services for construction. We use Antonis Fitros and his team from Pyrgos village. We use the electrician Mr Pantelis from Messaria and the plumper Mr Stathis from Emporio. We use always the same people.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
