Residents and visitors of the Region will have the opportunity to get to know up close Attica’s agricultural production, its people, and the journey of the agri-food chain from the field to the table, through the Open Farm Days – “Attica Open Farm Days 2026”, which the Region of Attica is organizing for the first time this year from September 26 to October 4, 2026.
For nine days, farms and primary production and processing units in different areas of Attica will open their facilities to the public, offering tours, tastings, workshops, educational activities and hands-on experiences around agricultural production and local gastronomy.
As the relevant announcement notes, the new agritourism institution has as its main goal the creation of a dynamic network of visitable farms and units throughout Attica, highlighting the region’s agri-food and gastronomic wealth and bringing consumers into direct contact with the people who produce their food. At the same time, it aspires to function as a driver for the development of agritourism and the sustainable local economy, creating new opportunities for promotion and networking for producers.
Producers of plant and animal production are participating in the initiative, as well as food and beverage processing businesses, such as wineries, olive mills, flour mills and cheese dairies. Visitors thus have the opportunity to step into the “behind the scenes” of production, get to know modern cultivation and processing methods, and discover how tradition is connected with innovation and sustainable development.
As part of the event, an educational program is also being implemented on modern agritourism as a tool for sustainable development, the empowerment of local communities and the creation of authentic experiences in the countryside.
The school goes out of the classroom – Students get to know nature and agricultural production
A special place in this year’s “Attica Open Farm Days” is held by organized school visits, through which students will have the opportunity to turn knowledge into real experience. Farms, gardens and agri-food units are opening their doors to school groups, giving children the opportunity to discover where food comes from, how it is produced and how it reaches our table every day.
From September 28 to October 2, educational visits have been scheduled in areas such as Marathon, Afidnes, Kythera, Markopoulo Mesogaias, Keratea, Megara and Sykamino Oropos.
Depending on the site and the program of each visit, students can tour crops and vegetable gardens, learn details about the animals and their care, talk with producers about their daily work and participate in educational and experiential workshops, creative activities and games in nature. At the same time, they become familiar with concepts such as organic farming, sustainability and environmental protection.
In this way, the initiative is directly linked to different themes of the school curriculum – from the environment, nutrition and agriculture to biodiversity, culture, sustainability and agri-food – offering students a different form of learning, outside the boundaries of the classroom.
Nikos Hardalias: “We are opening a new path for productive Attica”
On the occasion of the launch of the “Attica Open Farm Days 2026”, the Governor of the Region of Attica, Nikos Hardalias, stated:
“For the first time in Attica, we are opening our farms and production units in an organized way to citizens and, above all, to our children. We want everyone to get to know up close a side of Attica that often remains unseen: the Attica that cultivates, produces, processes, innovates and creates. To get to know the people behind the products that reach our table every day.
For us, the “Attica Open Farm Days” are not a fragmented initiative. They are part of an overall strategy for a primary sector that is modern, resilient and outward-looking, with emphasis on peri-urban agriculture, on high value-added production, on innovation and on the distinct identity of the products of Attica’s land.
We invest in education and knowledge, support young and new producers, encourage cooperation with the scientific community and make use of new technologies throughout the production chain.
At the same time, we support the outward orientation of our producers and the promotion of Attica’s quality and certified products in international markets, investing in a model that connects production with gastronomy, tourism and local development.
Because Attica is not only the country’s largest metropolitan hub. It is also a place with land, products, people and a deep productive tradition. And this is the Attica we want to make better known, more competitive and more open to the world”.
It is worth noting that the initiative falls within the pillars of the agri-food policy presented by the Region of Attica, with emphasis on connectivity, innovation and identity, on modern and sustainable production, on the training of professionals in the sector and on the organized connection of the primary sector with the market, science and international networking.