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- Wild berries
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- Berries of Karelia
Berries of Karelia are discreet, small, but very tasty and aromatic. Nature itself took care of the northerners who were deprived of the sun and vitamins, she created the northern miracle, wild berries. There are not so many of them, but each berry is a real treasure of health. All contain a huge amount of vitamins, enzymes, trace elements, pectins and other biologically active substances.
The leaves and roots of many berry bushes are useful for health, for example, raspberry leaves, which, according to some sources, are many times superior to fruits in terms of vitamin C. Berries of Karelia, along with mushrooms and fish of the clean northern waters, are very attractive for tourists. Just do not forget the size of Karelia, the ripening dates of berries in the north of the republic are later. Cloudberries, drupes and strawberries are the first to ripen in Karelia; they are harvested in July.
CLOUDBERRY
There is not a lot of marsh beauty cloudberries. A low (10-15 cm) plant with one flower blooms in May, when frosts or strong cold rains occur in Karelia. Such weather greatly affects the yield of this berry, moreover, large white flowers are mostly male, not tied into a fruit (prefabricated drupe). Ripening of cloudberries lasts 30-45 days, during which time the hard, red-cheeked berry becomes amber-transparent and soft. It tastes sweet and sour, very juicy and aromatic. It grows all over Karelia, where sphagnum bogs are not damp, less often in swampy spruce and mixed forests.
This Karelian berry has a lot of advantages, not only fruits with a high content of vitamins A and C are useful, leaves and roots are also used. Pomors of Karelia used to fish a barrel of soaked cloudberries, which saved them from scurvy. The leaves were placed on wounds and burns as an anti-inflammatory and blood-stopping agent. Decoctions of roots and infusions of cloudberry leaves were used to treat heart ailments, diseases of the kidneys, liver and stomach, the sepals of fruits were used as a diuretic... The only drawback of cloudberries are large seeds. Delicious liqueurs, compotes, preserves, jams and jellies are prepared from the fruits. Or they simply fill it with a weak sugar syrup, in which it is stored all winter.
STONE BERRY
There are two types of this berry in Karelia. The stony drupe is a rather tall plant (20-30 cm) with small white flowers gathered in bunches in a scutellum. Arctic drupe (10-15 cm) in Karelia kumanika, with single pink up to 2.5 cm flowers. It blooms in May and turns into a red drupe a month later. The berry is juicy, slightly sour with large seeds.
Bone bones contain organic acids, vitamins, and minerals. Traditional medicine used the infusion of leaves in the treatment of WK T, heart disease, as a diuretic and anti-inflammatory agent. This berry in Karelia is found almost everywhere, in the forest, in the meadow, on the outskirts of bogs, on rocky slopes. Bone bone does not grow in large quantities and is consumed fresh. Although it is suitable for juices, jellies, compotes and the like.
STRAWBERRY
Wild strawberry, sweet, slightly sour and fragrant. Small bushes with red, round or oblong berries with tiny seeds are remembered from childhood. It is impossible to confuse the humble strawberry with other berries. Strawberry is appreciated not only for its unique taste and smell, it contains a huge amount of ascorbic acid and other organic acids, vitamins, trace elements, mineral salts, essential oils, pectin.
The roots and leaves of wild strawberries are healing, which is widely used by folk medicine. Fresh leaves were used to treat cuts, infusion to reduce blood pressure, treat diabetes mellitus and much more. Strawberry flowers bloom in mid or late May and after 3-4 weeks the fragrant berries can be picked. In Karelia, it occurs in forest clearings, paths, meadows and rocks. It is unlikely that you can get at least a basket, a very small berry. The best use is to cook jam, a jar opened in the winter cold will vividly remind you of the summer.
BLUEBERRY
What is abundant in Karelia is blueberries. A blueberry bush (30-40 cm) blooms in May and the harvest depends on return frosts. Numerous pink, berry-like flowers completely cover the blueberry plantations. If it does not beat them with cold, there will be a rich harvest in July. The berries stay on the bush for a very long time, when the blueberry leaf falls in September, the fruits continue to hang... Dark blue with a touch of blueberries are not very large sweet, have a unique ability to stain the mouth and hands with a deep purple color.
This healing berry contains a large amount of vitamins, sugars, trace elements, organic acids and the like. Fruits and decoctions of leaves improve vision, reduce blood sugar and cholesterol, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, have a diuretic, anti-inflammatory effect. Blueberries grow in pine forests, clearings, overgrown burned-out areas, found in spruce and deciduous forests. Delicious jam, marshmallow, fruit drinks are made from it ...
RASPBERRIES
Forest raspberries are widespread in southern and central Karelia. A low shrub forming impassable thickets grows in clearings, forest edges, along the edges of forest clearings, roadsides and railroad tracks. Often dense raspberry forests are found along the banks of rivers and forest lakes. It blooms with inconspicuous green-white flowers gathered by a brush. Raspberries ripen after blueberries, not very large, but fragrant and tasty. Everyone knows about the healing properties of wild raspberries, "winter, colds, fever and tea with raspberries."
Contains vitamins, minerals, trace elements, sugars, organic acids, including salicylic, minerals. Traditional medicine uses the fruits, leaves and roots of raspberries... Infusions and decoctions from them help with bronchitis, blood pressure, neuroses, gastritis and atherosclerosis. In raspberry-covered large areas, caution is needed. Bears fattening up for the winter, they also visit, I have not seen myself, but I often saw "cakes" with undigested berries.
Cowberry
Along with blueberries, the berry of the Karelian forests is often harvested. A short (15-25 cm) evergreen shrub with leathery shiny leaves blooms in June, flowers are pinkish bells gathered in a bunch. By mid-August, scarlet round berries with a slightly tart refreshing taste appear in their place. Prefers sandy soils in light pine forests overgrown with lichen, grows in places near blueberries.
Berries are rich in minerals, organic acids, vitamins, contain ascorbic acid, pectins. Healing lingonberry leaves have anti-inflammatory, diuretic effects, are effective in the treatment of eczema and other skin diseases. Jam, juices, fruit drinks, jam and lingonberries just drenched in weak sugar syrup, everything is tasty and aromatic.
Cranberry
The berry queen of Karelia cranberry has many advantages. In addition to a huge amount of vitamin C, it contains rare vitamin K 1, which is responsible for blood clotting, and many others. There are many organic acids, minerals in a unique combination, and cranberries are also able to remove heavy metals and toxins from the body. Berries are useful for pyelonephritis, heart disease, lower blood pressure and "bad" cholesterol. Recent studies have shown that the ursolic acid in berries prevents age-related muscle wasting and burns fat.
Juices and fruit drinks from cranberries reduce the temperature no worse than tablets and have an antimicrobial effect. And this is not all the beneficial properties of the unique berry. Cranberries inhabit damp moss bogs. Evergreen creeping plants with shiny leathery leaves occupy large areas, blooming in June with tiny pink lily flowers gathered by a shield. The queen of the swamps ripens in September. Large cranberries of various shapes, ovoid, spherical, flattened, with dense juicy, very sour pulp. The color is burgundy, often with a bluish bloom, sour fruits become sweeter after frost. Cranberries are perfectly kept fresh on the balcony all winter, jelly is made from it, juice, fruit drink, liqueurs and liqueurs are prepared. Where cranberries are harvested see here.
Blueberry
There are a lot of blueberries in the Karelian, not swampy bogs. Ledum is a constant companion of blueberries, its heady, intoxicating aroma has given this berry many other names. A shrub up to a meter high with dark green leathery leaves and bark. From May to June, it is covered with pinkish flowers in the form of a glass. Harvesting juicy berries, but without a clear taste is possible at the end of July, August. Fruits are large, oblong, less often spherical, blue with a matte shade.
They contain vitamins and minerals necessary for a person, organic acids. Blueberry bark, berries and blueberry leaves are used in folk medicine. Fruit drinks are prepared for patients with fever, they drink berry juice for anemia, diseases of the genitourinary system, kidneys and liver. The use of fresh berries is shown to strengthen the walls of blood vessels, has a diuretic and choleretic effect, and reduces sugar. A decoction of dry leaves helps with indigestion, fresh shoots and leaves for heart disease. Jam, compotes, jelly, fruit drinks are cooked from the fruits, marshmallows and other delicacies are made.
Shiksha (crowberry)
In the swamps next to cranberries and cloudberries, there is a creeping evergreen with leaves in the form of needles. This is an edible shiksha berry, the fruits or leaves of which were used by the witch's grandmothers. Crowberry blooms with small pink or reddish small flowers in early spring, ripens in August. The berries are round, black, medium-sized with hard seeds and skin.
The fruits contain vitamins and biological substances necessary for the human body. In the old days, they were used to treat scurvy, nervous disorders and other ailments. Decoctions and infusions of the leaves help with headaches, fatigue and insomnia. The taste of Crowberry is bland, but a handful of berries quenches thirst well.
Also in the moist deciduous and mixed forests of Karelia, red and black currants are found, but there are always few berries.
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The cost of the trip is only $ 200. What is included in this amount you can find out in the section "Cost of travel"
You do not need knowledge of foreign languages, since everyone in the camp communicates in Russian
You do not need a passport or visa. According to the legislation, citizens of Ukraine can stay on the territory of the Russian Federation without registration for up to 90 days. In addition, citizens of the two countries can cross the border with their internal passports.
The proceeds received are not taxed. All that you earn is yours.
- This is the most expensive berry of all types of berries harvested in Karelia. In its appearance, cloudberries resemble raspberries, only a little more. Grows in marshy areas and forests adjacent to marshy areas. The ripening season for cloudberries begins in the second half of July and ends in the first ten days of August. The average daily harvest of an average harvest when working from 6 to 8 hours can be up to 15 kilograms
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- This is one of the most popular types of wild berries on the territory of Karelia. The ripening season for blueberries begins at the end of July and ends in the 1st decade of September. Blueberries are harvested using a hand-held berry harvester. The average daily harvest when working from 6 to 8 hours can be 30-50 kg. Blueberries are collected in buckets and then poured into plastic boxes of 10 kg.
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- This berry grows everywhere in Karelia. The best places for collecting lingonberries are mature felling, also grows in mixed and coniferous dry forests. The price of lingonberries is low, but when harvested, the total income exceeds the income from the most expensive cloudberries due to the large volumes of collection. Lingonberries are harvested using a berry harvester. The average daily harvest when working from 6 to 8 hours can be up to 100 kg.
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“Everyone is walking around the clubs, sitting on computers, and this one is all in his chicken coop ...” Savva's father, Leonid Leontyuk, greets us, smiling, and leads us into the courtyard of the house.
Savva is the son of the rector of the Sretensky Church in Solomenny, Archpriest Leonid Leontyuk. The young farmer has a twin brother, Nikolai. Six months ago, Savva got married. His wife Polina studies at PetrSU as a landscape designer and helps him take care of chickens.
On Staraya Kukkovka, next to modern high-rise buildings, Savva Leontyuk grows poultry on his own small farm - in the yard of his parents' house.
The farm of the 19-year-old farmer is small, but things are going well: sales are established, partners are all over the country, and in May the farmer hopes to receive a grant of one and a half million rubles and to build a new poultry house with this money.
“I got my first chickens, probably, at ten years old,” the young farmer recalls. “My parents are both from Ukraine, and I always visited my grandmother there. There are cows, ducks, goats, chickens. I enjoyed looking after them.
Styrofoam incubator
At the age of 14, Savva asked his parents for money for another purchase, to which the dad replied to his son: “My father told me, and I tell you, if you want to buy something, you have to earn money”. Then Savva found a part-time job. I bought 20 chickens for my first earnings. I made a group on a social network and started selling chicken eggs. And then he learned to raise chickens.
- The first incubator I had was made of foam. There it was necessary to put a plus and a minus on the egg on both sides. And every three or four hours it was necessary to turn it over. I wrote all this in a notebook, because it is impossible for the egg to stand in one place.
Savva recently bought a new modern incubator - he ordered it in Tula, waited for the parcel for eleven days.
- It already holds the temperature well: the error is half a degree. Out of 300 eggs, 250 chicks hatched for me - this is a very good result.And it shows humidity, just add or drain water. And there is also an automatic turning of eggs.
These chicks only hatched a week ago.
These chicks only hatched a week ago.
These chicks only hatched a week ago.
These chicks only hatched a week ago.
These chicks only hatched a week ago.
In 2014, Savva officially registered his peasant farm (KFH) - the parents of a minor entrepreneur, as required by law, gave notarial consent.
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Now Savva already has experience and a lot of knowledge in the field of poultry farming. He speaks with confidence about different breeds of birds:
- The Brama breed - I started with them - meat and egg. After five months, they begin to rush. When their egg production becomes not as intense as at first, they are slaughtered for meat. Broilers are kept for two months - during this time they have the main growth. And after that, more feed is spent, and the meat is not so soft. Russian white breed - pure for eggs. They are not used for meat, because there is nothing to eat there. This is the most unpretentious bird for our region. It can withstand up to minus ten degrees in a chicken coop without heating. Kuchinsky jubilee - brown-red, meat and egg. I will leave them for the parent flock to have my own hatching egg.
Savva is well aware of his advantages over competitors:
Egg Savva mainly buys in the Leningrad region, there is a long-standing trusted partner. Business ties were not easy to build.
“The year before last, I bought 170 turkeys in Moscow and brought them here with chickens. Many of them died, and I stopped working with that farmer, I didn't take more from him. In 2015, he brought turkey French eggs, very expensive - 250 rubles apiece, each one bears the coat of arms of France. At that time I did not have an incubator yet, and I asked another farmer to lay these eggs. Then he called me and said: "I have not seen this yet!" I hatched 125 turkeys out of 140 eggs. I sold them as chickens, they all went away.
Empirically
Savva is not afraid to experiment. Breeds chickens, turkeys, geese, guinea fowls, quails. By winter, the livestock decreases, and in the spring it increases again. So this spring, a young poultry farmer is going to Belgorod for this - he found contacts of a farmer with positive reviews: a good parental herd of geese, tasty meat. And from Kabardino-Balkaria, a transport company will deliver 200 turkey hatching eggs to him.
But the farmer is experimenting with more than just poultry. Kept nine sheep last summer. I traveled to Finland to learn from sheep breeding.
There is also one pig in Savva's farm:
Farm business plans
Recently, at the Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training, Savva took courses for farmers. He says he was the youngest there. During the courses I got acquainted with other farmers, new contacts appeared. Savva also learned about state support for rural producers and is now preparing to take part in the competition for a grant. A business project to create a large poultry house is almost ready.
Since 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture of Karelia has been holding an annual competition for novice farmers. The winners receive a grant of up to one and a half million rubles for the creation and development of the economy. You can also get up to 250 thousand for household appliances. The selection can be attended by the heads of peasant farms who breed cows, sheep, rabbits, poultry, bees, or are engaged in plant growing (except for seed potatoes). At the competition, farmers present their business project to a special commission.
Last year, seven people received a grant for the development of the economy. The program is financed from the federal and republican budgets. This year, 19.5 million rubles were allocated from the state treasury to support farmers - twice as much as last year.
Savva drew his future poultry house by hand. But at the defense of the business project, the poultry house will appear in 3D to impress the commission.
In Savva's poultry house there will be chickens, quails, guinea fowls, geese, turkeys - 500 heads of each bird.
It is impossible to build such a complex near the house - the birds make too much noise. We need a land plot in the countryside.
“The main problem is with the land,” the young farmer complains. - For the third year I have been trying to get a plot in Zaozerie.
Constantly some inconsistencies with the documents. Now it is still more complicated: you need to submit an application through the land committee. Then this committee sends it to the Prionezhskaya mayor's office, where the application is considered. I filed it again, I have already corrected all the mistakes that were. I hope that this time it will be possible to get.
Savva even developed a logo for his products.
Now the farmer sells his products to private individuals and other farmers for breeding. I tried to supply an egg to the store, but stopped: so far, he says, the volumes are not the same. However, Savva is sure that if we manage to expand the farm, there will be sales: they have already called from Murmansk, they were ready to take 600 carcasses of goose a week to the supermarket.
But if it is easy to get a veterinary certificate for an egg - you just need to submit a batch for analysis, then with meat everything is much more complicated:
In the project of the future poultry house, such a workshop is provided.
The farmer is satisfied and enthusiastic about his business. You won't earn super-profits, but you can feed yourself and your family. Savva manages to study as a catering technologist at a technical school.
- At school, some are jealous, because I have something that my peers do not have.
To this I answer: you can have it all. Nothing special here: the main thing is to work. My parents never bought anything for me. When I wanted the same phone, the same car, I saved myself, earned, and everything works out when you work from the heart.
We tried to fit a typical working day of a young farmer into three minutes:
A pig without a name will soon become a mother of piglets.
Bagheera is still a puppy. She is a little over a year old.
Bagheera weighs about 50 kilograms.
The main guard at the farm is Alabai Back.
Alabai are affectionate only with the owner. It is better for a stranger not to meddle with them.
In addition to two Alabai, there are also two German Shepherds on the farm - Jessie and Vanya.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
White Russian chickens are the main egg producers.
19-year-old farmer Savva.
19-year-old farmer Savva.
Savva doesn't like clubs and computer games.
Savva raises brown-red chickens of the Kuchin Jubilee breed for the parent flock.
Broiler chicken. He needs special warmth and care.
These broilers are a month old. In another month they will be sold for meat.
