Berry picking has started?

maximusbym · Post by **maximusbym** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:43 am

Hello!

Does anybody know berry picking started? I'm interesting in (blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries).

Thanks for answers!

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Kayttaja1 · Post by **Kayttaja1** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:30 pm

As a finn I would like to know where you can find a contractor or a company who buys your berries. I know I could sell the berries at the market or straight to the customers, but it would be logistical and economical disaster.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:50 pm

maximusbym wrote:Hello!

Does anybody know berry picking started? I'm interesting in (blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries).

Thanks for answers!

I have been picking blueberries for a couple of weeks already. Picked three more litres this afternoon. Can't find any cloudberries though (lots of leaves but no sign of berries) and I have no idea where to look for cranberries. I have also picked a lot of wild raspberries, in southern Uusimaa (Raasepori).

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:05 pm

Kayttaja1 wrote:As a finn I would like to know where you can find a contractor or a company who buys your berries. I know I could sell the berries at the market or straight to the customers, but it would be logistical and economical disaster.

In where? where i live local K supermarket buys berries, fishes etc around a year (under different company and name but same owner tho) and few businesses come in here in autumn to buy berries. It is virtually impossible to not see their adverts or trucks.
So where do you live?

Kayttaja1 · Post by **Kayttaja1** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:24 pm

onkko wrote:
Kayttaja1 wrote:As a finn I would like to know where you can find a contractor or a company who buys your berries. I know I could sell the berries at the market or straight to the customers, but it would be logistical and economical disaster.
In where? where i live local K supermarket buys berries, fishes etc around a year (under different company and name but same owner tho) and few businesses come in here in autumn to buy berries. It is virtually impossible to not see their adverts or trucks.
So where do you live?

In southern Finland, Kanta-Häme. I know in northern Finland it's easier to find businesses to buy berries than in south.

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:40 am

Hello, could you tell me witch part of Finland is the most famous for berry picking?

Would like to send some cv's if I can find emails from those farms.

Thanks Finland

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:25 pm

tummansininen wrote:Farms? Just go into the forest!

Sorry, wanted to ask about strawberries.

rinso · Post by **rinso** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:37 am

teretana wrote: Sorry, wanted to ask about strawberries.

To late, wait for next year.
(season mid June - end of July, depending on the weather)

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:52 am

rinso wrote:
teretana wrote: Sorry, wanted to ask about strawberries.
To late, wait for next year.
(season mid June - end of July, depending on the weather)

Thanks, will wait for the next year.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:09 am

http://yle.fi/uutiset/southern_european ... ds/6149757

Suonenjoki is the main strawberry growing region. Strawberries are grown in other areas too, but mostly in southern/central Finland. In the article I linked to they give a few details about work permits (eg for workers from non-EU countries).

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:56 pm

Rosamunda wrote:http://yle.fi/uutiset/southern_european ... ds/6149757

Suonenjoki is the main strawberry growing region. Strawberries are grown in other areas too, but mostly in southern/central Finland. In the article I linked to they give a few details about work permits (eg for workers from non-EU countries).

^^^ Thanks for the info, really appreciate it.

Will send emails to the farms at the end of the year, to see if they need someone for the next year and how much they pay. Though it's a really hard job.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:07 pm

Really hard? Down here, around the Salo area, the pickers are lying face down, in a row of 5-6 on a motor-driven cart, under a canopy (ie in the shade). Hardly a back-breaking job! And it only lasts for a few weeks. I can think of many many things which are much more physically demanding. Like standing on your feet teaching a class of small children all day, or sheep shearing, or coal mining...

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:31 pm

Rosamunda wrote:Really hard? Down here, around the Salo area, the pickers are lying face down, in a row of 5-6 on a motor-driven cart, under a canopy (ie in the shade). Hardly a back-breaking job! And it only lasts for a few weeks. I can think of many many things which are much more physically demanding. Like standing on your feet teaching a class of small children all day, or sheep shearing, or coal mining...

Well I was always imagining you're outside on the cold, rain standing all day and picking. That's how I thought it looks like.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 6:13 pm

This farm has a good website explaining how it all works - but apparently they don't have the motorised picking carts.
http://www.jarvenkylamaatila.fi/4

I wish I had taken a photo of the locals picking strawberries this summer - I had never seen those carts before but they looked really efficient and so much easier on the back.

There are also nurseries that employ foreigners during the summer, usually for longer periods that the strawberry farms. I think the work is probably harder since it lasts all day (strawberry picking is usually early morning or evening work) and involves weeding and things like that. These people employ quite a lot of seasonal labour: http://tahvoset.fi/tahvoset/3915-2/toihin-meille/

teretana · Post by **teretana** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:51 pm

Rosamunda wrote:This farm has a good website explaining how it all works - but apparently they don't have the motorised picking carts.
http://www.jarvenkylamaatila.fi/4

I wish I had taken a photo of the locals picking strawberries this summer - I had never seen those carts before but they looked really efficient and so much easier on the back.

There are also nurseries that employ foreigners during the summer, usually for longer periods that the strawberry farms. I think the work is probably harder since it lasts all day (strawberry picking is usually early morning or evening work) and involves weeding and things like that. These people employ quite a lot of seasonal labour: http://tahvoset.fi/tahvoset/3915-2/toihin-meille/

Thank you so much Rosamunda, that site looks great. Will try to send them en email and to apply online.

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