Food and service with love
Food and people are hearts of our function! We use domestic and local ingredients in our food and we make them in our gorgeous kitchen. We use seasonal ingredients as far as possible!
We use our own organic Black Angus meat, which is produced by us in our Kuona’s farm. Root vegetables come from our own garden or from local farmer, Olli’s organic vegetables. Juices and jellies are made from our own garden berries and apples. Pickles are made with special recipe, and they will make you drool!
Rye bread is made from the root which was imported straight from the Karelia by founders of our farm and we use flour from “Torpparin mäki” and they are just perfectly coarse for our bread. Bread is yeast free and it will be sliced thin just before serving, which gives it a special taste!
Meat from our own farm naturally and responsibly
“I want to be small producer, and it is not possible in big cooperative concerns” -Henrik Kähönen
I want to produce prime, good, ecological, new, different, perfect, high quality and responsible.
Climate is on high value in all what we do. Kuona’s farm’s operation is based on:
- field grazing and grass feeding
- solar power
- certified organic farming
- field grazing and animal’s natural habitat are enabling
- ecological products and born of the different kinds of ecological lockers
- increase of biodiversity
- increase of different kind of insects and pollinator bumble bees
- increase of swallows and biodiversity of different small birds
- organic manure increases moldability of fields and amount of worms-> this increases amount of different small predators
- Traditional environment, which includes leas, meadows, hack lands and forest fields, are different in characteristics but all of the 40 traditional environments are classified as endangered. The work of caretakers and pasture animals is important if we want to keep those environments. At this moment there is 30 000 hectares of traditional environments in Finland.
- Grazing animals take care of landscape and they bring joy for passer-by
- a cultural act
Our farm got it’s name from Finnish word for slag, “kuona”, based on historical Juankoski ironworks. They uplifted lake ore nearby.
They started to uplift lake ore on 1746 to be produced in Juankoski ironworks. Name Kuona farm was registered on 1945 when Armas and Aino Kähönen bought forest land as refugees from Karelia.
Henrik Kähönen took over beef cattle farm as a third generation farmer on 2010. Martti Kähönen decided to start raising beef cattle on 1978. Henrik decided to start raising Aberdeen Angus on 2016 because he was part of local Finnish business “FinnAngus”.
Our environmental responsibilities
- Sustainability in Kivennapa is based on use of local products and services and circulation from fields to table ie. by using our own grazing beef cattle. Sustain forests and continuous sustain grown are in our hearts too.
- Reduce of consumption of energy: solar power. Our young farmer Henrik thought that we should do something to fossil energy so we installed solar panel on the roofs at 2020. Home of our cattle has an upstanding row of solar panels so you can charge your own batteries (mentally too) here!
- Clean water
Clean water is richness! Water comes to Kivennapa from underground water provided by local water cooperative, which is very tasty and exceptionally fresh! - Locality and local products
We take on pride locality and sustainable production methods. We want to know how and where something is produced and that is why we favor everything local!
