Greek Summer 2012: The American Farm School’s Work and Travel Odyssey for U.S. Teenagers
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Greek Summer 2012: The American Farm School’s
Work and Travel Odyssey for U.S. Teenagers
The American Farm School’s renowned program for U.S. teenagers, “Greek Summer,” is now in its 42nd year of continuous operation. This year the program was based in the small farming village of Agios Antonios on the border of the prefectures of Thessaloiniki and Halkidiki in northern Greece.
The village is famous for its Women’s Agricultural Cooperative, whose members hosted the American teenagers. Each girl or boy lived with a different family, while as their community service project they built – with concrete and fieldstones – a small park adjacent to the Cooperative’s outdoor Coffee and Sweet Shop. Here the teenagers enjoyed making and feasting on the perek and other Pontian flat breads and pastas that the women in the Cooperative distribute in gourmet and specialty shops throughout Greece.
