Visit to a pig farm named CRETA FARM (www.cretafarm.gr) with vertically organized production of meat and meat products. The capacity of this farm is 2.000 sows, with its own feed unit, slaughter house, meat processing plant and sausage making unit.

Visit to a family-run “Sfakia” breed dairy sheep farm. The farm raises dairy ewes and dairy goats of local native breed which are managed in semi-extensive conditions with a milking parlour. Milk is sold for cheese making. Subsequently, cheese (Graviera, Kefalotiri) making plant will be visited, which makes traditional cheese from sheep and goat milk.

Visit to a commercial rabbit farm of Pavlos Alexandrakis, of vertically organized production, with a capacity of 1.200 dos and modern rabbit slaughter house. Subsequently, the Experimental Sheep farm of the National Greek Research Foundation, where a total of 400 dairy sheep of Sfakia breed are raised, will be visited.
On the way to those farms the historic monastery of Arkadi will also be visited.

Visit to the village of Gonia in the area of Rethymno, in which horses of the local breed “Messaras” are raised by a number of holders who have organized a cooperative named Saint George. The horse holders will present their horses and they will show a performance. The participants who want will have a chance to ride the horses.
The Messaras breed of horse is of small body size (height 1.5 – 1.7 m) with very fast walking (30 km/h) without galloping. This breed is under preservation.