Our neighbors are taking good care of us here in Arfara. There are plenty of grocery stores here, but many of our neighbors are quite self-reliant ... raising roosters, turkeys and lambs for meat, hens for eggs, goats and cows for milk ad cheese. their vegetable gardens are abundant with greens, zucchini, cucumbers and tomatoes. Trees in their gardens provide oranges, figs and olives. Grape vines provide shade on terraces as well as huge clusters of ripe grapes. In our garden, we have two olive trees... one for oil and one for eating, three fig trees, two orange trees and grape vines. We haven't planted any vegetables because of the relative shortness of our stay. However, our neighbors have been more than generous with their abundance. We now have jars of olives stacked in the cupboard and a basket of tomatoes in the windowsill, cucumbers, zucchini and fresh eggs chilling in the refrigerator and a freshly plucked (!!!) chicken waiting to be cooked. I think we just need to make friends with someone who makes cheese and another who bakes their own bread and we'll be set!

XOXO,

Karen June