A logo of finish garden tool and scissors brand Fiskars which the village is named by The slow food ideology is to encourage people to slow down their lifestyle, re-cultivate their sensory senses, and cherish their local ingredients and culture. The food only needs to be simply cooked, and we can enjoy the natural taste […]
Natural pigments The pigment that you see in the picture is made from vegetables or fruits. Those are natural pigments, so if children draw with those, the pigments won’t be harmful. So parents can rest assured that their child use those pigments. We also saw a lot of beautiful paintings from the children who joined […]
Our group focused in investigating the local food scene in Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä is located in the heart of central Finland and has great access to lakes, farming land, forests and the like, providing great opportunities for companies to invest into local and slow food. We chose three different places; fish store Mäkinen, roastery Papu and […]
What Local Culture Hostel & Café? Jyväskylä has a long and interesting history. There are many historical signs in the street scene that take you back to the old days. Old buildings and streets are left as a nice original touch for this growing city. The hostel café is one of those historical buildings, since […]
This is the 9th Slow Food Festival. The autumn had painted the trees in Fiskars, and over 60 producers were all there together for us. We didn’t buy much, but the little spoons and tooth picks gave us a peak into food that is good for us, for those who grew it, and for the […]
In the Slow Food festival in Fiskars, there were quite a lot of meat products, producers, and of course buyers. Also there were other products for example apples, potato and honey. The festival area was big and there were lots of interesting booths. In order to better get to know the whole meat producing process […]
We had an opportunity to visit at the Slow Food Festival in Fiskars Village. At the Festival over eighty producers from Uusimaa and Varsinais-Suomi in southern Finland get together for the weekend to sell and market their local products and services. The Fiskars village is a very beautiful place, especially now in October when the […]
“Forget the imported vegetables and foreign fruit; now it’s all about fresh, local and sustainable.” – quote from a farmer at the Slow Food festival in Fiskars. Slow Food Västnyland’s food festival is one of the largest and most colourful food festivals of autumn and it took place again in Fiskars Village on 6-7 October […]
At first when we finally got to Fiskars Village after four hours in a bus, it felt we had arrived almost into a different country. There was much more summery and warmer weather than in Jyväskylä where we left and most of the people that we heard speaking, spoke mostly Swedish. There were many animals […]
When we arrived in Fiskars it felt like being transferred to another time. The sense of a historical atmosphere was so real because of the old buildings and compact structure of the village. For a Finnish person who lives in central Finland it also felt like being abroad when you suddenly hear so many speaking […]