Four years ago, Poppy Georgiou returned to the village where she grew up in north-east Pelion in the hope of creating a better life among the apple and chestnut orchards. She had studied in Thessaloniki but it had been difficult to get by and she decided to move back to Pouri to work alongside her family and community on the mountain in Thessaly that looms above the Aegean.
But that future, along with many others’, is in jeopardy. The 28-year-old, who cultivates apples, chestnuts, cherries and olives across 50 acres of land with her husband and parents, found hope hard to find after Thessaly was battered by Storm Daniel at the beginning of the month, devastating the agricultural region that is one of Greece’s breadbaskets.
