Festival is a well-made sense of work
Every month of the year, your own handwriting. December - blessing, calm, with pleasure and candles, with the smell of peppercakes giving it a unique feeling of childhood.
When you visit Inga and Some Zeiles, Rēzekne is in the center OF THE village OF Maltas, a feeling of good work, a feeling of lightness. The smell of peppercakes from the tasty production room flooded into a deceased sound. This peace and stability are the result of work.
Inga Zeile is a domestic manufacturer of food and veterinary services.
In the beginning, the land in 2.90 ha was purchased simply to ensure self-sufficiency with the production that was grown as a rest. At the moment, after seven years of work, the list of works to be done is very broad, only January.
The housekeeper and the Dainis started with strawberries. The strawberries in a half-hectare area now require no time. Strawberries are grown on the cover. Each year, at least a third of the areas shall be restored with plants grown in greenhouses. They are healthy and large. The plants are also sold on demand.
Owners recognise that only experience, errors and experiments give results. Special consideration should be given to the choice of varieties. No advice on the Internet, look, read.
As with cabbage cultivation. 10 000 plants - that much or not so much? Collect, harvest, process, sell! Sometimes there is a failure, then consider what to do. One season coincided with the abundance of fresh cabbages. Where to make? We had to acidify. That thing went away.
The demand for production has grown gradually. The family understood that the assortment of the offer should be expanded. Plants, strawberries, then cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbages. The areas to be treated also increased. Planting, drawing, harvesting, recycling - all hand-to-hand work. The cabbages were also planted with wooden shades.
Consequently, the decision to participate in the rural support programme measure “aid to start up business through the development of small farms” is only logical. Purchased trailer, small tractor. An irreversible benefit is the electrical eating for cabbage planting, including freezing and storage of cold chamber berries. The third greenhouse was bought.
On the spot on the farm, in the market, the family sold a total of tons of fresh and acidified cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers, berries, thousands of different plantations. In the market, leudusts, lobbies, increased petinia offer have taken place in the market. Currently, the widows are planted. To cultivate quality, attractive plants, we must try and learn. The effects of the viscosity are influenced by climatic conditions.
Before the vegetables, berries, also flowers, grown cattle, cheese made. Inga is a confectioner by profession. Baked cakes, there was a demand. Now there is no time for the cakes. November, December, when the outdoor work is done, Inga realizes his confectionery by cooking peppercakes. It was always baked in its family. With time, this family tradition turns into an additional source of income. The preparation of peppers is a creative, sensation-rich process, leading to a wide range of larger, smaller figures. Today as a novelty is a peppercake Aventa crown in different layouts.
It's been, sometimes, it's all, stop! The family, well-being, the result of work - these are those engines that don't let you get tired. All over - love and patience of work.
Ingai, Dainim, and their three children, it's a self-evident thing, work for everyone. The work has been put into genes. The youngest, nineteen-year-old apologists have to do their work. Above all, they like what they do. Just a little time to get the whole family to sit in the car and travel around Latvia, as it was done before. Here, in our little land, there is so much to see, too much to enjoy.
Anastasia Saleniece,
SIA “Latvian Rural Consultation and Education Centre”
Rēzekne Rural Development Consultant
Photo: Maris Justs
