At the age of 30, Sotiris Lyberopoulos left Greece for postgraduate studies in England and worked in a multinational company. “There you find more opportunities to develop your talents. One morning, though, I woke up and wondered, is this what I want to do? Is this real life? If I continued, I would have stayed forever, but something inside just ate at me.”
So he decided to return to Athens and began writing for a motorcycle magazine, which gave him plenty of time to think about what he really wanted to achieve.
It was then where it struck him to return to his hometown and his father’s village of Raches, Messinia and to get back to nature that many have forgotten about. He began living on homegrown produce. “A month later my mother came, opened the fridge and found it empty and asked me how am I surviving? That’s when it clicked to Sotiris that he could start a business where he could promote local produce.
He looked to local Greek produce, organic greens that he could sell and today his business Radiki is selling products to award-winning restaurants in Athens and have gone as far as five-star restaurants in Paris.
“Between the mountain and the sea, you see all the seasons. The village where we spent holidays when we were kids, with a garden on the edge, the sea 10 metres away and nice memories.”
