Farm info

• Host couple: Jari Eerola and Elisa Uusi-Heikkilä 

• The new family has a total of 6 children 

• The farm was founded in 1669 

• Beef cattle have been raised on the farm since 2003 

• The farm includes 155 hectares (384 acre) of fields and 350 hectares (878 acre) of forest 

• The farm is involved in the Carbon Action project of the Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) as an experimental farm where carbon farming measures are tested

• The world's first vodka made from regeneratively cultivated barley is made from the farm's barley

• Videos presenting Finnish beef production and grassland strategy have been filmed on the farm for the 2020 European Grassland Federation seminar.

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Location

Setälä-Eerola's estate is located in the historic church landscape of Tuulos, in the village of Toivaala, on the shore of Lake Suolijärvi. The financial center of Setälä-Eerola is on the ancient Toivaala village plot, one kilometer from the medieval church of Tuulos.

After the municipal merger in 2009, Setälä-Eerola belongs to Hämeenlinna. In Tuulos, Hämeenlinna, at the other end of Suolijärvi, 7 kilometers away is the Tuulos shopping center.

History

The Setälä-Eerola farm is an old family farm that has been in the Eerola family since 1669. The Eerola estate was divided in 1751, when Setälä-Eerola was formed. The owner at the time was Anders, whose deceased nephews were left to own the other part of Eerola. Setälä-Eerola's name became established as an official name from this relationship.

Eerola was an old horse farm that got tax exemption by equipping horsemen for war.

Cultural landscape

The landscapes of Toivaala village and Suolijärvi have been immortalized in his paintings by Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, who owned the nearby Toivoniemi manor. Hjalmar Munsterhjelm is buried in Tuulos cemetery.