Pia’s sheep are potential participants of the project. They are not the sheep of a pure Finnish breed that is only good for grazing and meat but not milking. They are mongrels, mix of different breeds and could be considered for a milking experiment.
March 31st, 2011
visiting Maarit farm
on Thursday morning, March 31, we are visiting Maaret’s farm in Korpo. Maarit has a great family, a goat, three sheep and is excited about her life on the island. She is educated as historian but at the moment studies agronomy and already knows how to drive a tractor. She is a believer in small scale farming and seems very interested in our project and would be a great collaborator.
March 30th, 2011
Cecilia Persson
After some investigation Lotta gets a contact of Cecilia Persson who runs a farm in the Postad village in Åland and produces sheep cheese. Cecilia is the only sheep cheese producer in Finland! Autonomous cheese in an autonomous island. We call her today, March 31 and she agrees to collaborate in the project.
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March 30th, 2011
meeting Sonja
meeting Sonja, sheep project leader, for lunch on Wednesday March 30, in Korpo, to tell about our idea of wireless-less sheep cheese.
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March 29th, 2011
Sheep Club
participating in the re-union of Old Sheep Club on Nagu island, Tuesday evening, March 29.
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March 29th, 2011
meeting Katja
Lotta and us meeting Katja, biologist and sheep program supervisor for a lunch on Tuesday, March 29. Katja introduced us to the concept of biosphere and told about the changing landscape of Archipelago and the bigest challenge there – reduction of cattle that graze the meadows.
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March 29th, 2011
German-tv
meeting with Antonia and German TV crew at Antonia’s place on Tuesday morning, March 29. Everybody is positively surprised with our idea to produce a wireless-less sheep cheese, but it provokes smile, laugh and wonder and that is a good sign for us.
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March 28th, 2011
Pia’s sheep
On Monday evening , March 28, visiting Pia’s sheep and their barn. One sheep is expecting baby-lambs in a week or so.
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March 28th, 2011
market investigation
On Monday morning March 28, we are heading to investigate the cheese market at Turku Market Halle. The women selling all kinds of cheese doesn’t have anything of local sheep products. We could only get several types of goat cheese. We choose pieces of Gouda and Cheddar and a big piece of traditional chewy cow cheese, our favorite.
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