Demo Farm - Estonian participants

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Demo Farm - Estonian participants

The main aim of the Demo Farm project is to develop a network of farms for demonstration of sustainable farming practices in Latvia and Estonia.

Estonian participants:

Kanarik-Jakobi Farm

Does cucumber business enable organic mass production? While middlemen refuse to pay extra for organic cucumber, how to combat pests with low costs?

Overlaps with Tilleoru Landscape Protection Area
River Ahja borders the farm within 2-3 km
Beaver nests
Participates in Hurmioru network of farms

Farm lands - 13 ha
Forest - 17 ha
Sheep - 50
Cucumbers for factory processing

Kurese Village

The village has died out but its life is still visible from cradle to grave: we see how Kurese was born just after the rise of land from the Baltic Sea, how ancient fields fed it, how castles protected it while ceremonial stones and oak groves brought its people together. Death shows off in the oldest Estonian stone burial site as well as in the ruins of buildings everywhere. However, new life emerges nowadays in the wooden pasture where a herd of beef cows combat raiding wolwes.

Two springs, including a legendary ceremonial spring
An old stand of hazel-trees
Limestone-based forests and meadows
Wooden pastures
Heritage landscape with a potential to become a national landscape
A ceremonial stone
The oldest Estonian stone burial site
Oak grove sites
An archeological site

Farm lands - ca. 265 ha
Forest - 30 ha
Young stock grazing ~200 animals

Alt-Lauri Farm

Being a niche business, marketing of organic products requires cooperation of many farms. How can it be achieved? Go shopping to Alt-Lauri farm which offers a wide range of organic food and other products, and check it out!

Luhasoo wetland, 11 ha
An old alley
A spring
Bordering Haanja Natural Park
Organic shop

Farm lands - 13 ha
Forest - 14 ha
Vegetables
Processing vegetables
Farm store

Koivakonnu Farm

Koivakonnu Farm works as the first business to supply Parmu Eco-village where people desist from globalisation and technology-dependence. The vision of the community is to live from low-tech and local work such as breeding beef cows in Gauja river valley.

Söa oak-tree
River Mustjõgi and River Koiva with numerous sheets
Koiva wooden meadow
Natura forests and grasslands
Koiva-Mustjõe Landscape Protection Area
A ceremonial stone
Plantations of ‘Kikkapuu'-trees
Potential for the establishment of an eco-village
Organizes bees to train in nature conservation work
Produces tar

Farm lands - ca. 800 ha
Forest - 150 ha
Meat cows ~ 400
Horses

Pajumäe Farm

How to convince diary manufacturers that organic milk is better? If they do not come together, just manufacture yourself! Pajumäe farm runs its own organic diary industry, selling a wide range of final products. We tried their yogurt - mmmm!

Borders with Pätsi bog
Runs a small-scale diary industry
Cooperates with Stockholm Environment Institute

Organic farm
Farm lands - 360 ha
Forest - 151 ha
Dairy cows (ca. 80)
Other Sectors- Milk Processing

Riido Eco-Farm

For safe stops in long journeys, European birds need semi-natural open coastal areas. Beef cows, crazing on coastal pastures of the organic Riido eco-farm, provide such habitat for hundreds of bird species. Crazy hikers can pass through the extreme nature path which crosses a mile of shallow sea.

On the coast of the Baltic Sea: Kasti bay and Sutu bay
A wooden meadow with pine-trees and granaries
Nests of white-taled eagles
Natura Coastal pastures
Potential to expand to Laidevahe Nature Protection Area with a challenging coastline
Potential to establish a nature path, crossing 2 km of shallow sea

Organic farm
Farm lands - 750 ha
Forest - 50 ha
Dairy cows ~55, cereals, meat cows
Other Sectors- insemination, making silage

Sepa farm

Sepa farm, in the heart of Pikavere village, serves as an island of pre-industrial milieu and life-style. However, the environment and tranquility of the village is threatened by a planned dolomite excavation nearby.

A well-preserved pre-industrial village
A temporary set of carst lakes
Ura Landscape Protection Area
Wet areas
A ceremonial stone
Potential to demonstrate heritage architecture, life-style, farming activities etc.

Farm lands - 140 ha
Forest - 20 ha
Meat cows 10, bees, chicken
Smallest farm in Estonian 10 (agricultural production view)

Sürgavere collective farm

A large diary farm provides bird watching service, monitors and protects rare birds. To help lesser spotted eagle, the Sürgavere farm avoids application of pesticides near its nest and maintains grassland instead to provide food supply for the endangered bird.

Farm lands - 1290 ha
Forest - 12 ha
Dairy cows ~450
Cereal production
Other Sectors- agricultural services

Viraito Farm

Estonian national winner of the Baltic Farmer 2010 cleaned up River Põltsamaa which used to receive polluted water from Põltsamaa town. Viraito dairy farm cooperates with the wastewater treatment plant, applying flotosludge to fodder fields.

A flooded meadow on the bank of River Põltsamaa, hosting an elk

Protected graveyards nearby

Cooperates with Põltsamaa Diary to apply its flotosludge to the fields

Treats wastewater of a nearby village

Odoration of manure conflicts with the nearby town

Farm lands - 1577 ha
Forest - 32,2 ha
Dairy cows ~500
Cereal production

Väike-Nakatu Farm

Hilly landscape of the Nakatu tourism farm is taken care by beef cows. Within Demo Farm project, the farm is looking for a solution to replace the existing electric heating system of the hotel building with a sustainable technology.

A wooded meadow and a deep canyon (ancient river valley) near River Koiva
Mägiste oak-tree alley
Springs
Memorial to Jaan Lattik, a writer
Operates a country hotel
Organises jeep safaries and other activities in nature

Farm lands - 160 ha
Forest - 7 ha
Meat cows ~100