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We had to use medicines in our barn for the first time since the cows came to us two years ago. Shaila Putri had a mild, latent mastitis that caused elevated cell concentration in the milk from one of her four dugs. A five-day treatment applied directly into the nipple helped, and Shaila Putri did not really suffer at all....

Fresh water is taken for granted for us Finns, but globally it is a natural resource continuously getting more scarce. Sufficiency of water is one of the world's biggest challenges over the coming decades.

This summer, we have experienced superhigh temperatures and droughts. Not only in Finland but around the world.

What a joy it is to watch a happy-looking cow with her calf next to it. She licks the calf's head and continues the rushing, ie. chewing the food with half shut eyes. When the cow is happy, her milk is also happy. Energy is transferred, this is self-evident.

The past weeks have gone at high speed, as the sowing in the fields has taken most of the time. We have now broadbean, oats and barley coming. Jus a smaal advertisement in favour of the Finnish broadbean: this is something really worth trying if you have no earlier experience of the product. Replacing meat with alternative plant proteins is...

Skanda Mata kept us in suspense and the calf's birth was overdue for 11 days. Despite the heatwave, Skanda was in good shape up to the end and delivery was really fast and easy. There is something so delicate in the calf's birth, the enormous mother's energy shines from the mother and had the caretaker in tears. She licked her...

In my first blog I will touch upon these two issues that must have emerged in many minds following my introduction. Good questions. To a western world person it might indeed sound funny to respect a cow. But really what we are talking about is respect for life itself. All animals, plants, the ground we walk as well as our...