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Production takes place every two days and starts in the morning, both in summer- and wintertime. The fresh milk together with the live lactic acid bacteria is brought to a moderate temperature. For the fitness cheese we use 50% whole milk and 50% skimmed milk; for the other cheeses we use whole milk. The rennet is added and after curdling this mass is cut into small cubes (cheese curds) and filled into the moulds. The spices and herbs are added, which give the cheeses the special flavour of the "Gatscher cheese". For the next 24 hours, the product remains warm to ensure adequate fermentation and the right degree of acidity. Then the loaves are put into the salt bath, stored and cared on spruce boards in the cellar. The cheese is stored for between three and six months for the mountain cheese, five weeks for the fitness cheese and six weeks for the others.

Bakery - Pastry with Cafè - homemade ice cream, strudel di mele

Philosophy and Tradition
Our family business is set in midst of the South Tyrolean Alps at 850 m altitude. Our name stands for tradition - we have produced essential oils and herb products for 4 generations. Our raw material derives form high alpine altitudes and is ethically supported by the surveillance of rangers in order to maintain the balance of pasturage. Our customers can trust on our traditional knowledge which allows us to produce pure high quality essential oils. The herbs cultivated derive from own produce according to organic certified agriculture. In order to mantain the plants’ energy that determines the high quality of our products our customers can trust on handcraft produce from harvest to filling. Our 110-year-old tradition as well as our produce and harvest according to the moon calendar allows us to do so. We are dedicated to obtain not just quantity, but also high quality produce. Our concern is to offer our customers 100% pure and high quality essential oils and herb products that contain a high proportion of herb ingriedients and agents. Satisfied and regular customers confirm our commitment to develop products that are natural and free of harmful synthetic chemicals.
Attention: The oil distillery is currently closed.

Freshly-made farm sauerkraut from the Lechner family in Lasa is available for purchase in butcher shops, grocery stores, the new farm shop at the cabbage storehouse, and from their own shop in the village square.

Fresh cabbage in different varieties, spice cucumbers, antipasti, jams and juices, including sauerkraut juice.

Products: seasonal fruits and vegetables (apricots, pears, cherries, cauliflower), jams, juices, apricot and pear distillates.

 

From June visitors can enjoy guided tours of the restored grain mill in Carezza. As well as an explanation of how the mill worksand where the water comes from, guests can observe the mill in action as it grinds grain to make fl our. From June every 1st Tuesday of the month from 10:30–11:30 am, during the guided excursion.

On request for groups from 6 people (also from May).

 

We are a small farm dairy and we produce various cheeses from raw milk and yogurt with different flavors. We only work with the milk of our own cows, which are feeded only with hay. Until our cheeses go on sale, they are turned and brushed every two days. We offer home delivery and sell our products in selected shops and also at our selling point "Kashittl" (Moarhans) in Caprile (see opening hours).

In summer the selling point "Kashittl"moves and stands in front of the "Restaurant Bad Gfrill" in Caprile.

The scheme to promote mountaineering villages in the Alpine regions supports environmentally-friendly, natural tourism. The network unites villages with a thriving natural and cultural landscape, which have been spared major technical innovations and where mountains and mountaineering are an integral part of the identity.
From leisurely “Waalweg” irrigation-channel trails through to the three-thousand metre climbs – enjoy all the authenticity of the Matsch Valley. The living traditions and customs offer you an insight into the active village community, and a stop-off to wander round the castle ruins at the entrance to the village brings the dreaded Matsch robber-barons back to fearsome life.

The herb castle in Coldrano attracts attention from afar. The radiant yellow of the facade seems like a splash of colour, a shooting one, in the midst of large-scale, green and groomed apple orchads. It is indeed a small paradise for the senses, a botanical world of its own. Nature in spades, a sea of blossoms aromatically fragrant, spreads out in the herb garden and lovingly encloses the show garden of the herb castle. However, herbs are not only to be found on the ground at the herb castle, but also at lofty heights. On the roof terrace we have set up a love nest, the love garden. Everything is free accesible to everyone, 7 days a week.
In the herb fields in Coldrano (700m above sea level) and Taufers/Tubres (1.400m above sea level) the herbs are cultivated, harvested, dehumidified and refined into quality products from 3 generations with much diligence and love. In keeping with the ecological cultivated methods of the "Bund alternativer Anbau" (association of alternative growers), plant growth is promoted trough targeted soil cultivation, diversity in cultivation and oragnic fertiliser.
The variety in the fields is as rich as the product selection in the farm shop - a real treasure trove for the environmentally conscious:
-herbs, tea and spice blends, herbal salt, pasta, vinegrads and oil
-honeys and fruit honeys from our own apiary
-fruit spreads, syrups, chocolates and sweets
-healing oinments, cosmetics and perfume

The farm shop is open 7 days a week, all products are also available online.
Guided tours are available on request with a minimum of 10 participants.

The Niedereben organic farm is located on the "Nörderberg" at an altitude of 634 meters above Rabland/Rablà.

Climatically favored apples, olives, wine and cacti thrive here. The Hofer family supplies fruit and vegetables for the organic box „Biokistl” and runs various home-made organic products typical of South Tyrol in their own farm shop.

Sale of own products: fruits and vegetables depending on the season, Speck and tipical South Tyrol sausages; in autumn: pumpkins, chestnuts, apple juice, Vernatsch and Riesling wine.

Farm shop in Caminata/Kematen: jam, farmer's sausage, bacon and eggs.

In our mountain herb garden at almost 1400 metres above sea level, old and new knowledge about the recognition and use of wild aromatic and medicinal herbs comes alive again. 
Around 150 different, mainly native plant species thrive in our herb garden. 
In guided tours, the herb specialist teaches interested visitors the identification of wild herbs and their use in cooking and folk medicine. 
Our herbs are only fertilised and treated organically; due to the altitude, the plants develop high-quality secondary ingredients.
The herbs are air-dried on wooden shelves, placed in breathable sacks and only cut, mixed and bottled when needed. The blossoms are collected individually and gently dried so that the magnificent colours are preserved. Everything is handmade!

At the Wieserhof Farm in Vöran/Verano the cattles are reared by Markus in the form of suckler cows. Due to the natural husbandry the meat is of special quality.
Mixed packages from the beef are offered (8 or 12 KG): roast beef, escalopes, roasting joints, goulash, mince, meat for soup and boiled meat, house sausages.
Sale only on request!

The Eichernhof farm in Vöran is specialized in cultivating herbs.
The cook and young farmer Elisabeth offers cooking and baking courses, her mother Erika is guiding farm and herb garden tours.
Their homemade products such as jams, honey, bath and herbal salts, tea, syrups, fruit, vegetables and dried fruits are sold at the farm.

At the Spitalerhof farm in Vöran/Verano different kinds of fruit, vegetables and herbs are cultivated.
This products can be purchased directly at the farm: fresh vegetables and eggs, fruit spread, cordials, teas, dryed fruit, herbal salts and pickled vegetables.

Farm shop: "Ahrntaler Graukäse" (grey cheese), butter, herbage, eggs

Cheese dairy: Ahrntaler Graukäse (Valle Aurina grey cheese), butter, yogurt and various cheese types.

Cheese dairy Neuhaus Hof in Acereto/Ahornach: various hard cheese types.

The Plattner farm house in Costalovara is more than 600 years old. The Gramm Family, a mercantile family from Bolzano, has carried out an exemplary restoration of it liaising closely with the provincial historic preservation agency and so, also because of its unique location, it is one of the most picturesque farmsteads in the region. Today it accommodates a bee-keeping museum that illustrates in a lively and vivid way the sweet art of making honey. The magnificent Plattnerhof is the largest private collection of South Tyrol’s beekeeping and it is also a monument of rural architecture and savoir vivre. A nature trail on the picturesque hill near to the house explains the world of bees to visitors.

The Plattner Bienenhof offers various products around bees and honey.

"You are what you eat!" We also want to bring this motto closer to our guests and offer various products from our farm for sale: fruit spread, fruit syrup, dried fruit, apple juice, eggs, vinegar, honey, herbal salt, fruit and vegetables depending on the season.

Anyone who knows Hermann also knows that he stands behind his products with his heart and soul.
The product range on offer diverse: bacon, pork belly, wine and apple juice.

Above all, Hermann Schönweger has a special relationship with wine. The approximately 250-year-old vine of the "Versoaln" grape variety thrives here.

Tradition has it that this vine was destroyed by the French during the pillaging of the courtyard during the Napoleonic Wars in 1809. When the farm was rebuilt in 1810, the vine began to sprout again. The base of the grapevine has a circumference of 106 cm. This formerly widespread grape varietal can now be found almost solely on old stock located on the viticultural fringes.

The house wine Vernatsch, a dark Cuvée, Rosé and Müller Thurgau are offered for sale. Tasting of farm-fresh produce in the adjoining tavern is possible.

Every Friday from may - september: Cooking "Muas" with Hermann. Registration: +39 0473 967008

sea.wies is a small fine shop in the middle of a cozy café with the best products from the Val d'Ultimo and Alto Adige. Here, take a piece of our home after. Alpine cheese, farmer cheese, goat cheese, bacon, wine brandies, organic bread, decoration, wool products, wood clocks, jewelry.

Boarbichl: genuine and pure. Experience the mountain farm in the rhythm of nature. Fresh milk is processed daily into high-quality, regional food directly in the farm’s cheese factory and sold among others in the farm shop. Consider the gift basket “Hofkistl” as a very special souvenir to bring back home (upon request). In addition, a delivery service to hotels and private homes is offered.

Farm Products:

Raw milk cheese from original South Tyrolean grey cattle, yoghurt, fresh cheese and ripe cheese, quark (curd), Kaminwurzen (smoked Tyrolean sausages), fruit spreads, herbal salt.

Events:

Farmers markets:

Schenner Dorfmarktl: every second Thursday of the month from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm on the Raiffeisenplatz square in Schenna

Obermaiser Bauernmarkt: every Wednesday from 7.30 am to 1.00 pm on the Brunnenplatz square in Obermais, Merano

Direct sales from the farm: freshly harvested fruit, homemade fruit spreads, fruit syrups, dried fruit, blossom honey, Val Venosta quality wines and much more.

Certified organic farm-produced meat (beef, pork and turkey). Ordered in advance.

Alto Adige’s smallest “teaching dairy”.  Come and see how butter, cheese dairy products,... are made from milk: you’ll be amazed and learn many interesting things. There is also a store where the Huber family sells their products.

At the moment it is not possible to visit the cheese dairy. The farm shop is open.

One egg is the same as another. Or not?
Our organic chickens live in the mobile stable in the middle of our meadows, so our chickens get fresh grass, air and sun. We also keep dual-purpose chickens. With “dual use” we mean eggs & meat, which means that the meat of our organic chickens is also used as soup chicken after their active time as laying hens and the male chicks are also raised. Unfortunately not a matter of course these days …But for us an affair of the heart! ♥
Even if ethical and sustainable use of our earth’s resources is important to you, eggs from dual-purpose chickens are a matter of course! Why do organic meadow eggs cost more than normal free-range eggs? The workload with a mobile stable is greater because it gets a new place in our meadows around every 2 weeks and additional feed and water have to be brought to the stable.
In addition to the higher costs for the purchase and rearing of organic laying hens themselves and the larger land requirement per animal provided for by the guidelines for organic agriculture, it is above all the costs for the feed that have an impact on the books. Grains and pulses in organic quality are much more expensive than corresponding products from conventional cultivation.

Our chickens only get certified GMO-free organic feed. Due to the good feeding, the fresh grass and the great freedom of movement in our meadows and fields, our organic meadow eggs simply taste better and contain a particularly large number of vitamins (A, D, E), healthy omega 3 fatty acids and carotenoids. That is what is special about our organic meadow eggs!

The Houfabox...the self-service box with farm products from the farm Houfahof.

Products for sale:
* Salami and Kaminwurzen: the salami and Kaminwurzen are made from meat from our animals.
* Quail eggs: We attach great importance to the fact that our quails live in species-appropriate floor husbandry, which means sufficient space, the best feed and beneficial sand baths. All this is the basis for our high-quality quail eggs. And you can taste it! The vitamin bombs in miniature can have positive effects on allergies, positively influence health and increase well-being.

Premium eggs from Lonzahof. Eggs from the Lonzahof  have been laid by free-range or organic chickens. This means that hens are free to roam during the day, have sufficient space available to them, and are nourished with animal feed that is free from hormones and antibiotics.

Other products for sale: homemade egg pasta with wheat and wholemeal spelt flour.

Organic cultivation of cereals, raspberries and potatoes. Sale of: Flour (wheat, rye, spelt) milled in the farm's own grain mill; fresh raspberries from around mid-July to the end of August; raspberry syrup and raspberry jam; potatoes. Reservation by phone