A Mykonos farm tour is a visit to a working farm in the countryside around Ano Mera, the inland village of Mykonos, with its animals, gardens, bakery or vineyard and a taste of island food. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours.
The sections below cover the tour formats, where the farms are, the Ano Mera farm tour, baking with brunch, the farm barbecue, wine tasting, entrance tickets, private tours with a farm lunch, the local products, the Panagia Tourliani monastery, children, getting there and booking, with links into the Mykonos pages. The tours shown are checked on GetYourGuide and Viator.
What is a Mykonos farm tour?
A Mykonos farm tour is a guided visit to a working farm in the island’s countryside, where you meet the animals, walk the vegetable garden and the vines, taste produce grown on the property and learn how farming shaped daily life here.
The farms sit inland, in the agricultural belt around Ano Mera, away from the beach clubs and the harbour. A guide walks the group through the grounds, explains how the animals are kept and how the vegetable plots are worked, then seats everyone at a table with food made on the spot.
A Mykonos farm tour lasts between two and four hours and the pace stays slow. Farming was the island’s main livelihood long before tourism arrived. The land is rocky, dry and swept by north winds, so families kept goats, sheep and pigs and made cheese, cured meat and wine that kept without refrigeration.
Guests on a Mykonos farm tour can join the working side of the day, weeding, watering or feeding the animals, or they can sit on a stone bench with a glass of raki and watch the farm go about its business. The groups stay small and nothing on the day is rushed.
Which Mykonos farm tour formats can you book?
You can book a Mykonos farm tour in seven shapes, from a simple farm visit in Ano Mera to a bread-baking class with brunch, an evening barbecue, a seated wine tasting or a private island tour with farm lunch.
Durations run from two hours to six. The Ano Mera farm tour takes about two and a half hours, the baking class with brunch about three and a half, the barbecue about three and a half hours in the evening, the seated wine tasting three hours, and the winery vineyard walk two hours.
- Ano Mera farm tour: a guided walk of the smallholding with a farmer’s snack
- Baking class with brunch: bread made in a wood oven, then a full morning meal
- Barbecue at the farm: grilled meat, salads and unlimited wine
- Wine tasting at the farm: four local wines poured by a sommelier
- Entrance ticket with a sweet treat: entry for a day at your own pace
- Winery vineyard walk: olive grove, vines and organic wine with food
Group sizes differ. The Ano Mera farm visit, the seated wine tasting and the barbecue cap numbers at fifteen participants. The private Mykonos farm tour with farm lunch carries only your own party, so the pace and the stops follow your group, and hotel pickup comes with the guided formats.
The farm also sells its own versions directly, including a longer farm evening of about four hours with a cooking demonstration of two Greek recipes, a tasting of three local wines and a light lunch of spinach pie, stuffed tomatoes, Greek salad with feta, a baked potato and a souvlaki skewer.
Where are the farms on a Mykonos farm tour?
A Mykonos farm tour stays in the centre of the island, around the village of Ano Mera. The Mykonian Farm sits four hundred metres from the village square, and the Vioma organic farm and vineyard works land once held by the old Maou monastery.
Ano Mera is the island’s farming centre and its second settlement, seven kilometres from Mykonos Town along the road that crosses the middle of the island. The square holds tavernas, coffee shops and a bakery, and the Panagia Tourliani monastery stands beside it. Every Mykonos farm tour in this part of the island begins or ends in the village. More on it sits in the guide to Ano Mera village.
The Mykonian Farm lies four hundred metres from that square, on the edge of the village, and guests walk the last stretch on foot after the transfer. The smallholding keeps pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens and cows, plus a donkey called Konstantis, and a walled vegetable garden supplies the kitchen.
Mykonos Vioma works a historic vineyard further out, at the old Maou monastery estate. The family leases three and a half hectares of vines from the Panagia Tourliani monastery, farms them biodynamically, and keeps fifteen beehives on the property. That shared belt is why a Mykonos farm tour keeps to one small inland area.
What happens on the Ano Mera Mykonos farm tour?
On the Ano Mera Mykonos farm tour you drive to the village, walk to the farm, meet the superintendent, sit with a glass of raki and a farmer’s snack, tour the grounds, and join the garden or animal work if you wish.
The Ano Mera Mykonos farm tour takes about two and a half hours and a live guide speaks English. The transfer crosses the centre of the island from Mykonos Town to Ano Mera, and the group walks the last stretch past the village square to the farm gate.
At the farm the superintendent greets the group and leads it through the property, explaining how the organic plots and the animal pens are run and telling the story of Mykonian farming, its livestock and its crops. Guests sit on a traditional stone-built bench for the talk as it goes on. Guests who want to help choose from a short list of jobs.
- Cleaning the garden and weeding the beds
- Trimming the garden and the vineyard
- Watering the plants by hand
- Feeding the goats, sheep and rabbits
- Free time at the farm instead of the work
A farmer’s snack arrives with the talk: bread, tomatoes, kopanisti cheese, cucumbers and poor man’s black olives, with a glass of raki poured first. Produce is cut from the vegetable garden when the season allows, so the plate shifts through the year. The food follows the older island kitchen, the pace on a Mykonos farm tour stays gentle, and the transfer returns everyone to their hotels before the evening.
What does the Mykonos farm tour with a baking class and brunch include?
The Mykonos farm tour with a baking class and brunch includes hotel transfer, a welcome treat, a hands-on bread lesson at a wood oven, a farm walk while the dough rests, and a brunch of local dishes with wine or juice.
The Mykonos farm tour with a baking class begins in the morning and runs about three and a half hours. Guests arrive at the farm, receive a traditional treat, and start kneading dough, which takes about an hour. The dough then rests for about forty-five minutes, and the guided farm walk fills that gap.
Shaping the loaves takes about an hour and a half, and the bread then bakes for about forty-five minutes. A baker leads the session and explains the traditional technique as the work goes on. The morning of the Mykonos farm tour with a baking class ends around half past twelve, when guests sit down to eat what they have made.
- Sour cherry juice and a mastic or vanilla submarine
- Greek coffee with a cookie
- Bread fresh from the oven, such as peinirli, pizza, cheese bread or olive bread
- Egg dishes such as strapatsada or a wood-fired omelette with cheese and vegetables
- Greek salad with a cucumber and yogurt sauce
- House wine or a refreshment, bottled water, and yogurt with spoon sweet
Brunch is built from farm and island produce, and the table holds a set menu rather than a buffet. Everything is fresh and local, and nothing is fried in advance. For travellers who want to cook more than bread, the island’s wider lessons are covered in the guide to Mykonos cooking classes.
What is the barbecue Mykonos farm tour?
The barbecue Mykonos farm tour is an evening at the farm that starts around five o’clock with hotel pickup, moves through a guided walk past the animals, and ends with grilled meat, salads and unlimited wine under a shady pavilion.
The barbecue Mykonos farm tour lasts about three and a half hours and the group is capped at fifteen people. It finishes shortly after half past eight, when transport takes guests back to their hotels or to another address on the island. The first stop is the stone-built bench, where a glass of raki is poured.
The welcome treats are small and traditional, such as loukoumi, dried figs or a sour cherry juice and vanilla submarine. From there the superintendent leads the group through the pens to show how the animal side of the farm runs. Guests meet the pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens and the donkey Konstantis.
The grill then takes over. Guests take turns learning the Hellenic method under the grill master’s eye, and the side dishes are made in front of them, including horiatiki salad, a tzatziki sauce with fresh cucumbers, and a Mykonian sausage omelette with farm-fresh eggs. Everyone eats at long tables under the pavilion, and casual clothing works better than anything formal there.
- Mykonian sausage, pork chop and burger from the grill
- Grilled vegetables and roast jacket potatoes
- Tzatziki and bread
- Yogurt with honey or a spoon sweet to finish
- Wine and water without limit through the meal
How does wine tasting work on a Mykonos farm tour?
Wine tasting on a Mykonos farm tour takes place in a set corner of the farm, where a sommelier pours four local wines and walks the group through the tasting stages, paired with a plate of local products.
The session lasts three hours and starts at midday or at six in the evening. Hotel pickup is included and the group is limited to fifteen people. Guests on a Mykonos farm tour with a tasting sit in a wine corner built for the purpose, and the host is the sommelier Mr Stathis Pasoglou, who opens white, rosé and red wines from the island.
The tasting works through four wines step by step, and guests pick up the basic technique as they go. A snack of local products arrives with the pour, so the wines are matched with cheese, cured meat, bread and olives, and the grape varieties behind each glass are explained along the way.
The vineyard walk offers a second Mykonos farm tour format in place of the seated tasting. The winery vineyard experience runs for two hours and takes guests through an olive grove and the vines with the owner, explaining how organic wine is made from cultivation to bottling, before a tasting of organic wines and local delicacies with live music.
A fuller look at island bottles sits in the guide to Mykonos wine tasting, and the grape varieties, producers and vintages are covered in the page on Mykonos wine. Aegean varieties grown here include Assyrtiko, Athiri, Monemvasia, Malagouzia, Agiannitis and Mandilaria, which appear in the glasses poured at the farm.
What does the Mykonos farm tour entrance ticket include?
The Mykonos farm tour entrance ticket gives access to the farm for a day, so you can wander the animal pens and the vegetable plots at your own pace rather than on a fixed guided walk with a group.
The Mykonos farm tour entrance ticket is the simplest way into the farm, and it comes with a sweet treat on arrival. The property sits four hundred metres from the Ano Mera village square and seven kilometres from Mykonos Town, and it opens to visitors every day from ten in the morning until seven in the evening.
Guided farm tours run at eleven in the morning and at six in the evening for guests who want the full explanation, and the property keeps animals and an organic garden on the same site. The farm began working to re-establish traditional Mykonian farming, and it keeps the older methods alive for visitors to the island.
- Entry to the farm for a full day
- Access to the animal pens
- Access to the organic vegetable garden
- Guided farm tour at eleven o’clock in the morning
- Guided farm tour at six o’clock in the evening
Because the ticket carries no fixed schedule, it works well on a day when the rest of the plan is loose. Guests can arrive in the cool of the morning, spend an hour with the animals and the garden, then walk into the village for a coffee on the square before heading back.
A Mykonos farm tour with a guide and a tasting stays the fuller option, while the entrance ticket suits a quiet, self-directed hour. The same ticket pairs neatly with a village visit, since the square, the monastery and the bakery all sit within a short walk of the farm gate.
Can a Mykonos farm tour be part of a private island tour?
Yes. A Mykonos farm tour can be part of a private island tour with a traditional farm lunch, which runs for six hours and ends at a farm table after Mykonos Town, the Armenistis lighthouse, Kalafati beach and the village of Ano Mera.
The private format keeps the vehicle and the guide for your own party. Because nothing is shared, a Mykonos farm tour inside a private day feels unhurried, and the day opens with a walk through Mykonos Town, taking in the Old Port, the Paraportiani church, the windmills and Little Venice.
The van then leaves the town for the Armenistis lighthouse and the beach at Kalafati, before Ano Mera and lunch at a local farm, a sit-down meal of about two hours built from fresh local ingredients. The lunch is the point of the booking rather than an add-on for a Mykonos farm tour group. Children under five are not accepted on that six-hour private tour for safety reasons.
The shared farm visits carry no such age bar, so a shorter afternoon at the farm suits families with babies far better than a full island day. The private route makes sense for guests who want the whole day shaped around their own interests, with the farm as the closing chapter. Further options sit in the guide to private tours of Mykonos.
Which Mykonian products does a Mykonos farm tour show?
A Mykonos farm tour shows kopanisti cheese, louza cured pork, island honey, bread baked in a wood oven and wine from local vines, served with olives, sun-dried tomatoes and seasonal vegetables grown on the farm.
Kopanisti is the signature cheese of Mykonos. It is salty, spicy and soft, holds protected designation of origin status, and has been made on the island for more than three hundred years. Its peppery bite comes from heavy microbial activity during ripening, encouraged by repeated kneading while the cheese matures. It appears on the mezze plate at the farm and on tables across the island.
- Kopanisti cheese, salted and peppery
- Louza, cured pork sliced thin
- Honey from the farm beehives
- Bread and paximadi rusk from the wood oven
- Wine from Aegean grape varieties
- Olives, sun-dried tomatoes and garden vegetables
Louza is the island’s cured pork, close in style to the Cypriot lountza, cut thin and served with bread. Other local specialities on the same table include kremmydopita, omeletta, amygdalota, lazarakia, melopita, ksinotira and baklava, and a Mykonos farm tour plate holds a number of them at once beside the kopanisti and the louza.
Vioma adds honey from fifteen hives, and the family also makes vinegar, vine leaves, grape molasses and table grapes. Bread and food are baked in a traditional wood oven on the property, and the vines grow two metres apart, with a yield kept low by the wind and the dry soil.
A plate of mezze at the vineyard shows how these products fit together. Louza, kopanisti, feta, xynotyro and a plain or chilli gruyere arrive with sun-dried tomatoes, olives and mostra, a paximadi rusk topped with tomato and kopanisti. The cheeses are described in the guide to Mykonos cheese, and the wider table under traditional Mykonian food.
Can a Mykonos farm tour be combined with the Panagia Tourliani monastery in Ano Mera?
Yes. A Mykonos farm tour can be paired with the Panagia Tourliani monastery in Ano Mera, the island’s chief religious landmark, which stands seven kilometres from Mykonos Town and owns land worked by the Vioma vineyard.
The monastery was built in the sixteenth century and is named after the patron saint of Mykonos. Its whitewashed walls, marble bell tower and richly decorated interior make it the leading historic site on the island, and it sits in the middle of the village rather than on its edge, so a Mykonos farm tour in Ano Mera pairs with it naturally.
The village square in front of it holds tavernas, coffee shops and a bakery, and the farm gate is a walk of four hundred metres from there. That short distance is what makes a combined morning work: a monastery visit, a coffee on the square, then the farm, all on foot.
The monastery also owns part of the land where the Vioma vines grow. The family leases a three and a half hectare vineyard from it and rejuvenated the plot, which ties the religious history of Ano Mera to the wine tasted at the farm table, and makes a Mykonos farm tour easy to combine with the village.
A half day covers both comfortably, and the walk between the monastery, the square and the farm gate takes minutes. More on the building’s history, its interior and the walk around it sits in the guide to the Panagia Tourliani monastery. Visitors who drive can also stop at the red-domed churches in the village lanes.
Is a Mykonos farm tour suitable for children?
A Mykonos farm tour suits children well. The animals are used to visitors, the tasks are light, the food is plain and the visits are short, so families can feed, water and stroke the goats, sheep, rabbits and the donkey.
Children on a Mykonos farm tour take to the animal side first. The pens hold goats, sheep, rabbits, pigs and cows, and guests are invited to help with the feeding and the watering rather than watch from a distance. The tasks are offered, not imposed, so a shy child can stay at the table. The animals stay in their pens, so a toddler can watch from a safe distance while an older child works beside the farmer.
The food is plain enough for young eaters: bread, tomatoes, cucumber and cheese at the farm, and a brunch with egg dishes, Greek salad, a cucumber and yogurt sauce and yogurt with spoon sweet in the bakery class. Hosts have watched a baby during the meal so that parents ate in peace.
More ideas for a family day sit in the guide to Mykonos with children, which covers the island’s gentler activities. The farm remains a place where a child can touch a goat, knead dough and eat the result on the same morning, which makes a Mykonos farm tour an easy family outing.
How do you get to a Mykonos farm tour?
Reaching a Mykonos farm tour is simple. Hotel pickup comes with the farm visits, or you can take the bus to Ano Mera from the Old Port stop and walk the last stretch of the way.
A Mykonos farm tour starts seven kilometres from Mykonos Town, along the road that crosses the centre of the island. Public buses run to Ano Mera from the Old Port bus stop in Chora, and the trip is short. Tickets are bought from the driver or at the ticket office at the stop.
- Hotel pickup and drop-off included on the farm visits
- Bus from the Old Port bus stop in Chora to Ano Mera
- A walk of four hundred metres from the square to the Mykonian Farm
- A walk of two and a half kilometres from Ano Mera to Vioma
- A hired car or taxi for guests who want to combine stops
Guests on a Mykonos farm tour with pickup do not think about any of this. The van collects them from the hotel or from the cruise port, drives across the island, and drops them at the village, where the group continues on foot. Remote areas such as Elia and Kanalia sit further out.
Guests who arrive by bus walk the last four hundred metres from the square to the Mykonian Farm gate, a straight and easy stretch. A Mykonos farm tour with hotel pickup removes that walk altogether, which suits anyone staying outside the village or arriving with luggage or late in the day.
How do you book and cancel a Mykonos farm tour?
Book a Mykonos farm tour in advance, choose a date and a start time, and pay later if you prefer. Cancellation is free up to twenty-four hours before the visit, and the refund is full.
Tickets arrive as mobile passes and need no printing, and confirmation lands at the time of booking. Live guides speak English on the guided visits. The reserve now and pay later option holds a place without payment on the day of booking, which helps when travel plans are still moving.
The seasons matter when you choose a date. The farm activities run every day from the first of March to the thirtieth of November. Vioma opens from late spring to October, closes on Wednesdays, and shuts completely between November and April, so a winter visit to the vineyard is not possible. In July and August the early slots fill sooner.
Guests can also book with the farm directly, choosing a morning or an evening slot. Booking ahead helps at Vioma in particular, since the family serves cruise ship groups on certain mornings and advises guests to confirm their preferred date. A guided Mykonos farm tour with transfer and tasting remains the simplest introduction for a first visit to the island.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you need to book a Mykonos farm tour in advance?
Booking ahead is sensible, though not always essential. The farm visits accept guests who turn up on the day, and the entrance ticket carries no fixed time. The guided formats with a sommelier, a baker or a grill master have limited places, set at fifteen participants, and they fill faster in July and August, so a place booked early is safer.
How long does a Mykonos farm tour take?
Times differ by format. The entrance ticket covers a full day at your own pace, the farm visit in Ano Mera takes about two and a half hours, the winery vineyard walk two hours, the seated wine tasting three hours, the bakery class and the barbecue about three and a half hours each, and the private island tour with a farm lunch six hours.
What do you wear on a Mykonos farm tour?
Comfortable shoes and casual clothes work better than anything else, since the ground between the pens and the vines is uneven and dusty. A hat and sunscreen help in summer, because the farm work and the walk to the vineyard happen outdoors. Anything formal is out of place at the evening barbecue beside the grill.
Are the farms on a Mykonos farm tour open in winter?
Only in part. The farm activities in Ano Mera run every day from the first of March to the thirtieth of November, so spring and autumn visits are straightforward. Vioma closes between November and April and also shuts on Wednesdays through its open season, which narrows the window for a vineyard visit.
Can you buy wine, cheese and honey at the farm?
Yes. Bottles of wine are sold at the farm gate, and Vioma’s wines also reach local supermarkets, hotels and restaurants on the island. Honey from the farm hives, vinegar, vine leaves and grape molasses are sold alongside them. Cheese appears mainly at the table, as part of the mezze served with the tasting.