Vardar Valley News Today

For centuries the opium poppy has been cultivated with great success in what is now North Macedonia. After the bans of the Yugoslav era, there are now those who want to reintroduce it for the (legal) needs of the pharmaceutical and food industries

Boxwood growers – listen to your boxwoods. Yes, listen with your ears. This is the time of year when you can audibly hear the larva of boxwood leafminer chewing

World War I in the Balkans: Who Were the "Gardeners of Salonika"? While their comrades manned the trenches of the Western Front, a force of one million Allied troops languished in the dreary Greek port of Salonika. Heres What You Need to Know: The Salonika campaign cost the Allies 165,800 combat fatalities. The Germans mocked it as their largest prisoner-of-war camp, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau was hardly less withering in his opinion of the Allied stronghold at Salonika, Greece. “...