Farms

Quail Farm Rīta Putni / Olalā Koknese

10 August, 2022 | 78 views

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 | 49 views

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 | 262 views

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 | 342 views

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 | 504 views

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 | 690 views

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 | 2,421 views

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 | 1,882 views

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…