This looks like it might be fun and even a good day out with the kids if the weather is nice.
http://www.mangsgard.fi/Mangs%20fi/mang ... 20slow.htm
Free entrance, food market, bees, pony rides, eats - all local produce. A working farm in Inkoo, up near the railway line, only 30 mins from Helsinki along route 51 and then the Degerby road.
More info on Länsi-Uudenmaan Slow Food from here:
http://www.slowfoodvastnyland.org/index.php?lang=fi
See you there!
Slow Food event in Inkoo this weekend
Re: Slow Food event in Inkoo this weekend
We visited this "Slow Food" farmers' market today and really enjoyed it. There were farmers from all over Länsi-Uudenmaa (ie Espoo to Hanko) selling their produce: flour and grains, lots of fruit and veg, meat (including lamb from Karjaa and Tammisaari, beef from Scottish Highland cattle raised in Hanko, also pork), goats cheese, bread, honey etc and the usual selection of jam, juice, syrups, mustard and pickles etc. West Chark (from Pohja) is there selling their sausages (eg: Bratwurst made from Scottish Highland beef). There was quite a lot going on such as live animals including two Scottish Highland cows and some alpaga llamas and some sheep. Also live music (tomorrow there is a concert I think, or maybe a play) and some demonstrations and a talk or two on Slow Food.
It's a lovely place (a bit off the beaten track, you might need the SatNav and a pair of wellies, there are signposts once you turn off route 51 at Degerby) and you can certainly take the kids, the grandparents and the dogs. There is coffee etc available but the queues were quite long which is not surprising as the cars filled three fields and the place was packed. I don't think they had expected quite so many people to turn up which is why it seemed a bit disorganised at times, but all in all it was fun and interesting and nice to be outdoors on such a beautiful day!
The event continues tomorrow (Sunday) from 10-16. Next year it will be held in Fiskars so it will be even bigger and even better...
It's a lovely place (a bit off the beaten track, you might need the SatNav and a pair of wellies, there are signposts once you turn off route 51 at Degerby) and you can certainly take the kids, the grandparents and the dogs. There is coffee etc available but the queues were quite long which is not surprising as the cars filled three fields and the place was packed. I don't think they had expected quite so many people to turn up which is why it seemed a bit disorganised at times, but all in all it was fun and interesting and nice to be outdoors on such a beautiful day!
The event continues tomorrow (Sunday) from 10-16. Next year it will be held in Fiskars so it will be even bigger and even better...
Re: Slow Food event in Inkoo this weekend
Nice report. I would like to go this weekend but I'm swamped with work. But let's hope for the next...Fiskar's is so beautiful!
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Re: Slow Food event in Inkoo this weekend
Got there yesterday - quite popular - but was predominantly the local yokels and am sure the average age was 50+ if under 10's omitted (grandchildren) - and that's OK too.
Beautiful day - very enjoyable overall - but I do wonder why the prices for almost everything so high - it's as if everyone selling was trying to make the year's profits in 2 days. It would surely be difficult for average families to buy produce* at those prices on a daily basis.
I would have thought these folks would be trying to INTRODUCE the possibility to buy regularly.
*A lot of the coffee and refreshment prices were pretty much out of sight there too - there's more defense for that I understand as a 'one off' event and expenditure - but still 1€ coffee might not have been an outlandish idea.
Beautiful day - very enjoyable overall - but I do wonder why the prices for almost everything so high - it's as if everyone selling was trying to make the year's profits in 2 days. It would surely be difficult for average families to buy produce* at those prices on a daily basis.
I would have thought these folks would be trying to INTRODUCE the possibility to buy regularly.
*A lot of the coffee and refreshment prices were pretty much out of sight there too - there's more defense for that I understand as a 'one off' event and expenditure - but still 1€ coffee might not have been an outlandish idea.