In transitions, Latvia
The world is now – with the corona virus spreading all over the world – in a transition to somewhere new, but we don’t know what that “new world” will be like. But there has been transitions before. Here is …
Category: Organics
Organic potato starch – is there enough and where does it come from?
A growing organic market with limited supply In a growing market like organic food – which is transforming itself from a very small niche into a part of the mainstream – supply issues are a little different. The organic market …
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Ciranda: Visiting Finnamyl and Aloja Starkelsen at harvest time
We have worked together with Ciranda Inc. in the United States since 2011 and since then North America has become one of our most important markets for organic potato starch. It is because of the great work Ciranda is doing …
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Potato starch harvest starting in Latvia
The other week I visited Latvia in order to see organic starch potato harvest and the starch production process at Aloja Starkelsen. You can find my earlier posts last year about the harvest in Finland and the production process at …
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Starch potato in Estonia and Latvia
Organic starch potato field at Krimuldas, Latvia.
In early July on the way to the 7th Ifoam Conference in Vilnius we took the opportunity to visit a few organic farms. First in Estonia close to Rapla we visited the farmer Tõnu Kriisa who produces mainly organic beef on …
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How is the organic starch potato growing at Satakunta jail?
In the end of May we visited Satakunta jail’s organic farm in order to photograph the planting of the potatoes. Now I visited the same place with Kai Kreuzer from organic-market.info. Unfortunately it had been recently raining so there was …
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Producing organic potato starch at Finnamyl
Last Sunday we were at Hermanni Hautala’s organic farm in Kauhava for the harvest of organic starch potato. On Thursday we saw some of those potatoes at the Finnamyl potato starch factory in Kokemäki transformed into organic potato starch. Thursday …
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Harvesting organic starch potatoes in Kauhava, Finland
Hermanni Huhtala has over 100 hectares of organic starch potatoes cultivated on his farm in Kauhava, Western Finland. In total he has an organic farm with over 500 hectares making his farm one of the biggest organic farms in Finland. …
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