{"id":341,"date":"2011-04-05T18:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-06-18T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T05:52:05","slug":"visiting-audrius-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"visiting Audrius farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday April 3, we visited organic cheese market in Vilnius and met Audrius, former law student and member of the pro-test lab project that we were running in 2005. Nowadays Audrius immersed into secrets of cheese making. He rents a farm in Darguziai village and together with his girlfriend Jovita keeps 20 sheep. Audrius produces different kinds of milk products: spreads, hard cheeses, yogurts.<br \/>\nWe made an appointment to visit Audrius and his sheep farm on Tuesday, April 5.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-342\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-01-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-01-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-01-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-01-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-01-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-343\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-343\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-02-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-02-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-02-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-02-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-02-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-344\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-344\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-04-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-04-1024-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-04-1024-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-04-1024-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-04-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got inspired my milking architecture. It is a specially constructed closed cage, lifted up from the ground that conveniently allows to milk 3-4 sheep at one time.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-345\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-345\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-05-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-05-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-05-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-05-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-05-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audrius sheep are of East Friesian breed. They are milking sheep and give 1-1,5 l of milk every day. Audrius also contucted an experiment &#8211; he mixed East Friesian sheep with Lithuanian, so called, wild sheep. The result stands in the middle in the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-346\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=346\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-346\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-03-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-03-1024-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-03-1024-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-03-1024-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-03-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-347\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-347\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-06-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-06-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-06-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-06-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-06-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-06.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audrius keeps two male sheep.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-348\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-348\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-07-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-07-1024-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-07-1024-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-07-1024-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-07-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-07.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-349\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-349\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-08-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-08-1024-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-08-1024-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-08-1024-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-08-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-351\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-351\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-10-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-10-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-10-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-10-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-10-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-352\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=352\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-352\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-11-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-11-1024-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-11-1024-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-11-1024-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-11-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audrius and Jovita feeds baby-lambs that are just taken away from their mothers.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-372\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-372\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-12-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-12-10241-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-12-10241-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-12-10241-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-12-10241.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-12.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audrius recently came back from the research trip in Ukraine, where he gave a workshop on cheese making in the farm of 10 000 sheep. He brought home dry sheep stomach, that is used for cheese fermenting process. 1 stomach is enough for cheese production for the whole year.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-354\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-354\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-13-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-13-1024-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-13-1024-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-13-1024-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-13-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-13.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We left to Darguziai early in order to reach the farm at 6:30 and participate in the morning milking session. It was foggy and we could not see the road. Actually there is no road leading to Audrius farm. We had to cross a meadow. We nearly reached the destination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-356\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/?attachment_id=356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-356\" title=\"20110405_Audrius-farm-14-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-14-10241-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-14-10241-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-14-10241-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110405_Audrius-farm-14-10241.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/ARCH\/pics\/20110405_Audrius-farm-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">zoom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday April 3, we visited organic cheese market in Vilnius and met Audrius, former law student and member of the pro-test lab project that we were running in 2005. Nowadays Audrius immersed into secrets of cheese making. He rents a farm in Darguziai village and together with his girlfriend Jovita keeps 20 sheep. Audrius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audrius-farm","category-fieldtrip-no-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vilma.cc\/uto-pia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}