O kmetiji
Smo manjša družinska kmetija na obronkih Pohorje na Tolstem Vrhu pri Mislinji. Ukvarjamo se predvsem s predelavo jabolčnega soka, kisa in sorodnih sadnih izdelkov iz starih, nekomercialnih sort jabolk, ki rastejo v naših travniških sadovnjakih.
Domačija pri Ramšaku
The name Domačija Pri Ramšaku translates to "The Ramšak Homestead" and is our farm's local/traditional name since the 1800s. In the Slovenian countryside a farm typically has a "local" name that stays with the farm regardless of the legal name of the family living there. The first people to develop the farm were named Ramšak—a common last name in the local Koroška region—and the name stayed with the farm.
Zgodovina domačije
Our farm was founded in the 1800s by the Ramšak family, who gave the farm its name—Pri Ramšaku. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, the Ramšak family maintained a thriving homestead, raising livestock, growing grains and produce, and operating a grain mill and sawmill on the unforgiving mountainous terrain. But for lack of a younger generation to take over—as is unfortunately all too common in the rural European countryside—the farmstead drifted into dormancy in the early 2000s.
The last representative of the Ramšak lineage living on the farm kept up small-scale farming for as long as he lived on the property. Operating as Center Gaia d.o.o., he produced and sold apple juice, cider vinegar, and herbal products throughout Slovenia, but slowly scaled down production and eventually sold the property in late 2022 to the Mastnak family, who took on and continued operation of the farm.
The voice you're reading on this page is that of Mastnak family. We are primarily a father-son team who took over the farm in 2023 and have enthusiastically, if on a small and humble scale compared to the former Ramšak family, continued cultivating the land to present day. Although we are not originally from the Koroška region nor full-time farmers, we have done our best to keep the land in cultivation, plant a new generation of fruit trees, and preserve the farm's operation and tradition.
Pridelava starih, nekomercialnih sort
Od kar smo prevzeli kmetijo poudarjamo uporabo starih, tradicionalnih sort jablan, ki rastejeo v naših visokodebelnih travniških sadovnjakih. Jabolka, ki jih gojimo, so tipično bolj okusna in aromatična, kot konvencionalne komercialne sorte. Ampak hkrati rodijo manj obilno in zanesljivo kot moderne komercialne sorte, zato jih ne pridelujejo na večjih sadjarskih kmetijah. Prav tako jih ne najdemo v konvencionalnih živilskih trgovinah.
We choose to grow these varieites out of appreciation for tradition, our love of heirloom varieties, and also motivated by the practical reality that we are a small-scale, family operation and not full-time farmers. Because our resources and manpower is limited, we prefer to produce less and offer interesting, high-quality products than try to compete on a basis of scale or price with high-volume commercial farms.
Zanimivost: Od kar smo prevzeli domačijo se trudimo, da bi poslikali in opisali sorte jabolk in hrušk, ki rastejo na kmetiji. Opise in slike si lahko ogledate na sledeči strani:
Slike in opisi starih sort →Prav tako smo pripravili predstavitev visokodebelnega travniškega sadovnjaka—to je ekološko pomemben habit, ki je značilen za slovensko kmetijsko krajino in ki ga najdemo tudi na naši kmetiji:
Opredelitev travniškega sadovnjaka →