The mastic growers ... can produce a quality resin. But caring for them, making sure they’re established and happy, he said, brings him joy. The post The enduring harvest of the ‘Tears of ...

Greece is famous for the production of mastiha, or mastic, a tree resin collected from mastic ... cosmetics, and food. But harvesting this resin isn't simple. It requires farmers to first hurt the ...

They’re searching for blobs of hardened white goo: mastic, the natural resin prized since antiquity ... and culminates with harvest and cleaning. Most of this process is done by hand.

The name is associated with the harvesting process. As of August each year, people start carving the bark of the mastic trees. Resin is created to close the trees' wounds, or — more poetically ...