Eiker Gårdsysteri

About Eiker Gårdsysteri

Eiker gårdsysteri in Hokksund is the place for delicious speciality cheeses made from our own cows' milk. Production includes, among other things, the speciality Holtefjell, a firm matured cheese originating from the French Alps, ripened at 3 degrees. Tilsiter Eiker, Eikern, Hvit Eiker, BerBrie, Camembert Eiker and hjertebrie. We have a state of the art cowshed, cheese dairy, meeting/function room and farm shop. Here you can experience modern farming and at the same time taste our exquisite speciality cheeses. If you pay us a visit, we can tempt you with our charming farm shop with local delicacies, coffee and a little something to nibble on while you watch the cows in the cowshed. In the summer we have many small calves out on pasture. The story behind Eiker Gårdsysteri is three "farming families" who wanted to join forces on a new, modern cowshed with a focus on good animal welfare. The cows therefore move about freely and decide for themselves when they are to be milked, eat and sleep. They lie on cow mattresses and have their own scratching brush. The fully automatic milking robot controls the milking! All this gives good cheese from happy cows! At cafe Hemsen you can sit and enjoy a coffee while experiencing life in a loose housing cowshed. From the windows at Hemsen you can follow everyday life in the cowshed and how the cows live. You can see them resting on the mattresses, ambling leisurely about, eating when they want to and going to the robot for milking when it is time for that. And the robot knows whether it is time for that particular cow to be milked now! If too little time has passed, it has to wait and is channelled on to the food. Here there is undoubtedly contentment, not a moo to be heard, and this gives us the good milk we need to make "Good cheese from Happy cows"

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