farming

In the last years of the 20th century, Glenfeshie, a 17,000-hectare estate in the Scottish Highlands, was in steep decline. Decades of overgrazing by deer had reduced its hillsides to clipped lifelessness. Denied the protection afforded by tree roots, the banks of the River Feshie were losing...

In 1971, a British woman named Sue Coppard wanted a brief respite from her London secretarial job and asked friends if they knew of any rural organic farms that may like an extra set of hands over the weekend. A simple weekend excursion almost 40 years ago has since exploded into a worldwide...

http://www.bugday.org/tatuta/whoweare.php just had this link from a friend...there are loads of eco farms all the way down and around the aegean coast and this side too (med)..a lot of them receive guests and have B& B places.