Dear Supporter,

You don't know how many things we have to share in our basket while living the warm pleasant days of autumn. Every day is spent discovering new facts and metabolizing all the pleasant and unpleasant aspects of these discoveries. We see unpleasantness as a new opportunity. This is how our social, productive, functional side develops.

This week, we started to collect the stalks of sesame seeds that our village neighbors shake off and leave in their fields. The new application in Zeytinalanı consists of pioneering species such as bamboo, centaury, oxtail piece by piece on the existing plant tissue of our land. Our soil is stony, compact, low in organic matter and humidity. Therefore, the rate of living micro-organisms in its content is very low. The first area we need to start nurturing to feed our own basic needs is our soil. For this purpose, before we start our functional forest plantings, it is an important part of our journey to provide organic materials that will support the survival of the first species we will meet with the soil, without disturbing the balance of nature. An option these days is sesame stalks, which our neighbors do not use and burn. We ask for permission to collect these stalks left in the fields. At this point, there are those who try to set a price and sell the stalks they burn under normal conditions when we are interested. This raises a question to ponder: what happens the moment a commodity becomes a need, it is no longer tradable?

We believe in the importance of sharing with neighbors and we share this view with our neighbors. The fact that our neighbors are happy, healthy and productive in their work paves the way for us to be like that. With these shared thoughts and feelings, we load sesame stalks into our trailer. We collect all the stems left in the field. In this way, our neighbor, who has started planting in the new season, will not have to start a fire, mix the carbon that needs to be returned to the soil, or contribute to global warming, since there is no straw left in his field. He will be able to sow his winter crops directly in his field. Maybe one day he will want to set up a functional forest experiment in a corner of the same neighboring field and it will be up to us to design, implement and observe together.

This week, we harvested the fencing nuts, known by some as meneviş or menengiç, and by some as hackberry, in our fields and in the wild. In the years when there were no ready-packaged nuts, hackberry was very popular in cities and villages. The phosphorescent green grains were picked from the branch, washed, salted, dried and laid out in the sun. Then those oval and flat grains would become a nut in dark duck green tones. It was known by the name "Roast" when it was roasted with spices or plain. In its dried form, it was added to the fig and eaten by fencing. It would be recommended to try it with different dried fruits. Today, in Siirt, dried apricots, figs, grapes and molasses are mixed with çeğluk dessert. When the product is ready, you can order from here .

Persimmon can be a good start for you to meet the fruit species that live after being plucked from its branch. Persimmons stand out with their taste and nutritional value. This valuable fruit, which is fragile when ripe, loses its resistance to cargo conditions. At this point, your contribution to the ripening process means that we share productivity and functionality while consuming this fruit. It also helps us to improve our ongoing cooperation between the producer and the supporter in the transition from being a consumer to being a supporter. We will deliver our apples of paradise to you at pre-harvest maturity. You can find long and short ripening methods on the product page.

The first heavy autumn rain last week enabled some of our olive varieties to reach a harvestable consistency. We harvest the olives at the time of order and offer them in packages, with recipes that you can easily set up in your home with the crushing/slicing, selelik and brine methods. You can order our raw and fermented olive types and other olive products here .

We started to supply materials for our work to keep the traditional basket house architecture of the Köyceğiz region alive. According to this old method, the struts of the main trunk will consist of long and thick branches of the oleander, aka the moon tree. In the coming days, we will start to collect and prepare the thin chaste branches.

With the wish of living productive, functional and peaceful days together.