Companies that utilise wild forest products in their range of services - Keski-Suomi

RAVINTOLA HARMOONI Is a restaurant of experiences, offering relaxed, uncomplicated lunches during the day and local Finnish food with a modern twist in the evenings. The rustic surroundings of the cellar-based restaurant include beautiful details and works of art, creating a unique, warm atmosphere in Jyväskylä. Harmooni’s palette of flavours is inspired by the four seasons. Our...

Rantapirtti is a 52-year-old family company engaged in countryside tourism. Its activities include restaurant and catering services, emphasising hand-made local food, berries and mushrooms grown by the company itself or foraged from local forests, fish from local lakes and elk hunted by the company’s owner. Our business also involves a wide range of programme services based on...

We arrange guided foraging trips for groups of 4–14 people to pick berries, wild herbs and mushrooms in the local area, as well as trips to the nearby Pyhä-Häkki National Park. Our restaurant uses local wild herbs, mushrooms, berries, game and fish in a wide range of ways. We also use wild herbs and peat for a range of indulgent wellness treatments and sauna products.

The world’s largest smoke sauna (for up to 150 people) offers peat saunas, peat treatments, yoga, sauna weddings and more besides. Food: some local food, berries, mushrooms, meat. Traditional work: peat burning, wood shingle cutting, a blacksmith’s workshop, roundpole fence construction, dyeing using plants, traditional celebrations. Ecology: geothermal and woodchip heating is...

Uusi-Yijälän tila and Ravintola Patapirtti offer their customers Finnish food experiences, berry wine tasting, accommodation, sauna and meeting services, and the peace and quiet of an organic farm – all of this in the immediate vicinity of the Himos Skiing Centre. Mushrooms and berries foraged from local forests, fish from Lake Päijänne, berries and herbs from the organic farm,...