Farms

Quail Farm Rīta Putni / Olalā Koknese

10 August, 2022 seen 44
Rīta Putni is located in one of the most picturesque places in Latvia - Koknese county Bilstini just a few minutes away from Perse and Daugava river, where an impressive view of Koknese castle ruins can be seen. I first heard about this…

Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery Sri Lanka

3 March, 2022 seen 34
Kosgoda Turtle Care program aims to protect sea turtle eggs and increase hatching rates. I had a chance to visit Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery in Sri Lanka at the start of January 2022, during a day trip from our hotel at Bentota. After…

Rose Garden 'Dailas Rozes' near Tukums in Latvia

11 September, 2017 seen 202
We received a special request, from a special person, to deliver park rose Rītausma, which could translate as Dawn in English. Rītausma is a local, Latvia selected park rose breed. To get one (seedling price was about EUR 5), we had to…

Peony Nursery „Ziedoņi”

24 July, 2016 seen 324
Peony nursery Ziedoņi is located in the Western Latvia, district of Kuldīga in Pelči village. I had a chance to visit this garden mid June 2016, at time when flowers did bloom. I wouldn't call this a little Latvian Keukenhof, but some…

Deer Park "Rudiņi" in Latvia

15 October, 2015 seen 477
Lovely things happened on June's late evening, we most probably traveled back from Riga to our wolf's lair and noticed a strange construction - The Bridge to nowhere, after I took few photos back there, we continued our drive and suddenly…

Bandžēni Farm

30 July, 2015 seen 686
Now, some of you already of you know my love of different agricultural farming things, like once I visited a dairy farm in Georgia, then I visited a fish farm (again in Georgia), this time I visited an agricultural company in Latvia - meet…

South African Fish Farms in Georgia (Sagarejo, Sartichala)

14 January, 2015 seen 2,376
The other day I was contacted on my blog's contact form by locally living foreigner in Georgia originally coming from South Africa. It turned out Afrikaner guy (Johann Kritzinger)  is a manager of South African owned fish farms here in…

"Piena Ceļš Georgia" - Visit of Dairy Farm

6 December, 2014 seen 1,859
In my childhood there was a time I lived in countryside next to a cattle farm. They had around 100 cows and as for a child in a village were nothing else interesting is happening I spent pretty much time with cows though I never have…