Heritage Agritourism farms

The old granary of the homestead is now a regional research museum that the lady of the house has established to present various exhibits related to fishing and life on the sea.

This is an apiary which you can tour and then taste honey and buy products. There are also sauna rituals for health and beauty.

An open-air museum featuring a typical Semigallian farm in Zemgale during the first half of the 20th century.  You can visit a collection of farming equipment and old automobiles.

The granary and cheese-making facility of the former Sieksāte (Berghof) Estate now house a museum (since 1985) which tracks the route of milk from the cow to the finished product. You can try your hand at milking cows and churning butter, and then you can taste what you have created.

The Laumas farm offers you a chance to be a beekeeper, watching the lives of bees in hives (while wearing a beekeeper’s suit), touring a bee trail and climbing a tree with the help of a truss.

The lady of the house delivers lectures about life on the farm, covering the collection of medicinal teas, beekeeping and fence-making traditions.

Programme:

• Meet the hosts, general introduction to Turaidas farm.
• presentation – the hostess explains about the herbs that are collected in a large basket while guests are seated around the room and tasting the herbal teas.
• Tea production facility, explanation of the processes.
• Tasting fresh water from the well in the yard.
• A tour of the apiary with a demonstration of the beekeeper’s work.
• Tasting of diferent sorts of honey.

This farm nurtures Lettigalian traditions, serves Lettigalian foods, produces dairy products (including cheeses), grows local plants (which you can purchase), and offers a chance to visit a Iproper Lettigalian black sauna. The owners themselves will serve as the sauna masters.

The granary and cheese-making facility of the former Sieksāte (Berghof) Estate now house a museum (since 1985) which tracks the route of milk from the cow to the finished product. You can try your hand at milking cows and churning butter, and then you can taste what you have created. There is also a garden of fallow deer.

The owners have collected a set of old tools and milk processing equipment and will be happy talk about how these were used in the past.

The farm features twelve friendly horses from Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus, as well as three eager dogs of various species, along with rabbits, chickens, cows and cats. Here you will feel the true country spirit in four adjoining farms – Klajumi, Ganiņi, Ķemeri and Krasti. The location is near the “Rings of the Daugava” Nature Park, and you can go horseback riding along the border between Latvia and Belarus.

Latvian cuisine: Schnitzel of mushrooms, potato dumplings with dried mushrooms or meat, cream sauce and onions, baked chanterelles with new potatoes, sautéed vegetables and mushrooms, strawberries with ice cream, moonshine liquor.

Special foods: Cranberry fool a la Klajumi

Here you can visit a working farm that honours Latvian traditions, organises celebrations of traditional holidays and offers feasts of foods that are grown on the farm.