Ascension Day + Kinnari Farm
Ascension Day is a national holiday in Finland. We are all having a day off. I drove my daughter to Laune Family Park to spend some time with an old friend of hers from the district of the city, Ahtiala, we lived in before moving out of there. My wife and I visited Kinnari Farm, one of the oldest continously operated farms in the region. Kinnari Farm has been owned by the same family since 1667. There is a cafeteria and a small farm shop. The same owners also own a small mill, Okeroisten mylly the products of which were sold in the shop. There was also a small selection of flowers, pots and other gardening paraphernalia.
I met the current owner of the farm at the shop. He told me he had owned since 2004. The farm has 220 hectares of land and has rented some fields. The average farms size in Finland was 44 hectares in 2015. The average size has been growing because farming is very capital intensive and because profit margins are very thin. When I asked him whether it was necessary to invest in more field hectares or other activities he said that one should still be very careful about investements and not just invest for investment's sake. The tourism business is under a separate company and the farm itself has fields for growing crops, forests and sand and gravel pits. Okeroinen mill is also owned by the farm.
The cafeteria and the farm shop were in that building.
Entrance to the cafeteria and shop with some of the merchandise on display
Economical use of space. A combine harvester shares this space with the gardening paraphrenalia for sale. This is where the owner greeted us and where we had a chat.
The grain is dried and stored in this building, I think.
The grain must is loaded for transport towards a mill via that tube.
I imagine that the type of grain harvested is the true wheat.
What pride must that family have to be able to keep a family asset for so many generations, there must be many stories of that family.
How good is that visit? Another question the items that sell is the store are products of that same farm?
That's the whole idea.
Here in this continent it is not common to hear that something is 500 years old or more as I commented to you recently. That family literally has its roots there in that place, and I do not blame them. It seems a good place to take root for its landscapes and the best is the spacious and without the noise of the city. From what you say, you were a neighbor, I imagine nostalgia every time you visit that beautiful farm.
Very nice story. 5 x bigger than the average farm. Nice to get out for the morning. Thanks for letting us know.
Thanks for the photo tour. One of my favourite things about Steem (and the Internet in general) is getting to explore places I know I'll probably never see in person.
Looks like a cozy little farm. Hope you enjoyed your holiday :) What does the sign on the barn say?
Just Kinnari Farm. The sign in front of the grain drying and storage building (the tall metallic one) has the opening hours on it.
Oh; I got that one from context. I was wondering about this one:
I think the first part has something to do with "Farm?"
Tilamyymälä = Farm shop.
Maatila or just tila = farm
Myymälä = shop
Nice trip @markkujantunen the gardening space is very cool, is it one of those farms that does not have animals? I wonder if it generated more income the tourist market, here with the launch of the petro the government now allows the payment with cryptocurrencies in the tourism sector I guess that to increase the income of US$ and avoid penalties, did you offer to pay with sdb? : D, It is incredible the time that farm has, my family has had the workshop and the sale of spare parts of electrical equipment business since 1963, and we are going for the 3rd generation.
How does the Venezuelan government treat small businesses?
Well depends on what we are talking about, we don't really deal directly with the national government that despite being terribly centralized does not come down from its pedestal to deal with small companies, we deal rather with the Seniat, the Sabat, and Alcandia in payment of tax and trade permits.
Now what is making us suffer as companie is the foreign exchange controls since we depend on local suppliers that bring the merchandise through the importers, but those guys are really in problems from what the suppliers have told us.
This topic is much longer @markkujantunen and everything is on the internet I know what you want to know from the perspective of someone who sees it but in reality I can only tell you what I experienced that is little respect to the whole picture.
I don't actually know. Could be.
Offering to pay in SBD and insisting on it... :D I would've had to also offer a very long explanation.
It's a good thing to go around with family. A holiday is created in the house with a holiday. :)