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Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων

Prickly Pear Cacti and Anemones Field

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Prickly Pear Cacti and Anemones Field

Name: Prickly Pear Cacti and Anemones Field
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Aguara01

February 11, 2023

In one field, a commendable attempt was made (temporarily) to break the monotony of agricultural products (olives and sheep) with opuntias, which bear delicious prickly pears from August onwards; in the opposite field, the anemones do this quite spontaneously on their own from November to March.

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Drschminke

September 8, 2025

Unfortunately, the prickly pears have since been razed to the ground. Presumably, their cultivation was not profitable.

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Aguara01

September 8, 2025

Thanks for the update! Indeed, the owner had already told me about this, precisely because it wasn't worth it for him to market it (there were EU subsidies, but only initially). A few hundred meters further east (see komoot.com/de-de/tour/1028199187) is another (abandoned) cactus field, but it's not fenced in and therefore exposed to sheep and goats. It will be interesting to see what use the property will be put to now. I'm fairly sure it will be another "luxury villa" (as is already planned across the road to the south), because the entire area is increasingly falling victim to landscape-destroying development, apparently more lucrative in the short term than traditional or even alternative agriculture. The prickly pears were, in principle, a very good approach!

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