We were on a trip to Falk\u00f6ping, Sweden, on November 10-12, 2016, as part of the Kasvua Ruokaprovinsista project and Liiver. There were a total of 32 people in our traveling group. We held the flag of Liiver's youth division high with Ilari Hauhia, Loviisa M\u00e4ki and Heidi Kohtala.<\/p>\n
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The study tour from Liiver was attended by Loviisa M\u00e4ki, Juha Koivisto, Tuula Sundberg, Reetta Yli-Hynnil\u00e4, Sinikka Koivum\u00e4ki, Ilari Hauhia, Heidi Kohtala, Hannemari Niemi, Keijo Viertoma and Rami Mattila. The host was Niclas F\u00e4llst\u00f6m from the \u00d6stra Skaraborg Leader group.<\/p>\n
We arrived at Gothenburg Airport and took a bus to Falk\u00f6ping. First we saw the city, then small villages and finally just fields and individual houses. We wondered if there might be some of the places we had heard about in advance. Yes, there were. Our first stop was a caf\u00e9 in an old mill, then we continued to a small dairy shop, a large cheese caf\u00e9 and a crispbread factory. From there, we continued to the market hall and dinner at a cellar restaurant.<\/p>\n
The next day we visited a bison farm and went on a bison safari. The destination became a personal favorite of the youth group. The farm also had moose, deer, and a nice one-room moose hotel and banquet facilities. We also visited Sweden's smallest market hall, a slaughterhouse, and an art exhibition, which also had banquet facilities and a caf\u00e9. The last day's destination was a prehistoric open-air museum.<\/p>\n
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Overall, we thought the trip was successful and diverse. Some of the destinations visited were quite far apart on small roads, but the businesses still had enough customers. From our perspective, the difference to Finland seemed to be in the attitudes and future prospects of young people. In Falk\u00f6ping, young people had stayed to develop their home region and stepped into their parents' shoes, filling them in their own way and creating opportunities for themselves in the sparsely populated countryside. The profitability of their own businesses was not questioned. Local food producers and providers worked closely together and in every place you could find each other's products for sale. This kind of entrepreneurship and helping others would also be needed in Finland.<\/p>\n
-Heidi, Loviisa & Ilari<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We were on a trip to Falk\u00f6ping, Sweden, on November 10-12, 2016, as part of the Growth from the Food Province project and Liiver. We had a total of 32 people traveling with us. We held the flag of the Liiver youth division high with Ilari Hauhia, Loviisa M\u00e4ki and Heidi Kohtala. The participants from Liiver on the study trip were Loviisa M\u00e4ki, Juha Koivisto, Tuula Sundberg, Reetta Yli-Hynnil\u00e4, Sinikka Koivum\u00e4ki, Ilari Hauhia, Heidi Kohtala, Hannemari Niemi, Keijo Viertoma and Rami Mattila. The host was [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uutiset"],"yoast_head":"\n