The current increasing interest in the nutritional and therapeutic value of plants and herbs has motivated the nuns of the Holy Monastery at Mikrokastro to invest in this trend by exploiting the herbs growing wild in the surroundings and by cultivating many of them in the Monastery’s gardens.

Since about ten years ago, the Sisters have been preoccupied with collecting and processing the herbs using the latest technological aids, keeping to the necessary hygiene and conducting thorough microbiological tests complying with the Greek National Organization for Medicines. Some of these tests are conducted in the Monastery while others in an authorized laboratory outside the Monastery.