Staramaki

🌾 Harvest 2026 is complete.

Another agricultural cycle has come to an end in the fields of Kilkis — and the raw material for the next generation of Staramaki natural straws is now safely collected.

For us, harvest is much more than the first step in production. It is where Staramaki begins: in the field, together with our farmers, experimenting with varieties and cultivation practices to produce better stems while creating value from a simple agricultural material.

Over the coming months, these stems will go through our production process in Kilkis and be transformed into millions of natural drinking straws — grown by the land, not manufactured from plastic or paper.

A big thank you to Hatgiparadisis Costas, our farmers, and everyone involved in this year’s cultivation and harvest. Every season teaches us something, and every harvest brings us one step closer to making natural plant-stem straws a real alternative at scale.

From the field to the drink. Naturally. 🌾

Dawn in Kilkis.
Off to the fields where every Staramaki begins. 🌾

Πολλά μπράβο και πάλι για την αξιοθαύμαστη προσπάθειά σας, χαιρόμαστε πολύ που μας δόθηκε η ευκαιρία να βρεθούμε δίπλα σας.

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming students and professors from Perrotis College of the American Farm School of Thessaloniki to Staramaki in Kilkis.

The visiting group included students from the University of Georgia (UGA), USA, who came to see first-hand how a simple wheat stem can become a natural drinking straw — and how local agricultural production can be transformed into a higher-value circular product.

During the visit, we shared the story behind Staramaki: our work with farmers in Kilkis, our production process, our sustainability mission, and our effort to connect circular economy, rural development and innovation in practice.

It is always inspiring to open our doors to young people studying the future of agri-food, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Their questions, curiosity and fresh perspective remind us why education, research and real production must stay closely connected.

Thank you to Perrotis College, the Αμερικανική Γεωργική Σχολή of Thessaloniki, the professors, the group leader and the students from UGA for visiting us today.

From the field, to the factory, to the glass.
This is where circular economy becomes tangible.