Farm shops and breweries
Discover local flavours and buy locally produced souvenirs from Kimitoön Islands’ microbreweries and farmshops!
Kimito Brewing & Rousal Brygghus
Two microbreweries operate on the Kimitoön Islands. Kimito Brewing’s and Rousal Brygghus’ innovative range of beers can surprise even the most experienced beer sommelier!
Rousal Brygghus is an archipelago brewery in Rosala. The brewery’s philosophy is based on local flavours, local history and experimentation. In addition to a delicious beer, in the summer you can enjoy delicious BBQ food straight from a smoker.
Kimito Brewing’s philosophy is to brew ‘the best possible beer from Kemiö’. The emphasis is on easily accessible, clean, stylish products, which are perfect to be enjoyed, for example, on a jetty on Kimito’s shore in the summer. Kimito Brewing opened its online store in 2020.
Jams, delicacies and a down-to-earth atmosphere – that’s Närboden in a nutshell
Did you know that some of possibly the best jams in Finland are found in Kimito? Sabina Ekholm at Närboden makes the award-winning products and her shop also sells many other delicacies.
An irresistable aroma greets visitors to the production kitchen of horticulturist and artisan foodmaker Sabina Ekholm. Sabina is busy making glögg (mulled wine) for Christmas.
Cereals, strawberries, beans, dill and peas are grown on Sabina’s husband Torsten’s family farm. Sabina opened Närboden ten years ago. Currently, it includes both her own products, including jam, juice, honey and pastries, and other locally grown foods.
– I want to know exactly where the products come from so that I can also tell our customers about them. Nowadays, customers want to know more about the production and origin of products. Ecology and high quality are also important to me. On Kimitoön, local business owners collaborate with each other a lot, and the community is our greatest strength. I sell other people’s products and others sell my products, says Sabina.
An irresistable aroma greets visitors to the production kitchen of horticulturist and artisan foodmaker Sabina Ekholm. Sabina is busy making glögg (mulled wine) for Christmas.
Cereals, strawberries, beans, dill and peas are grown on Sabina’s husband Torsten’s family farm. Sabina opened Närboden ten years ago. Currently, it includes both her own products, including jam, juice, honey and pastries, and other locally grown foods.
– I want to know exactly where the products come from so that I can also tell our customers about them. Nowadays, customers want to know more about the production and origin of products. Ecology and high quality are also important to me. On Kimitoön, local business owners collaborate with each other a lot, and the community is our greatest strength. I sell other people’s products and others sell my products, says Sabina.
4,000–5,000 jars of jam a year
Summer is the busiest time at Närboden. On Fridays, fish is smoked first thing in the morning in collaboration with another business owner. Cold-smoked and gravad fish is also available. Some sheep, rabbits, cockerels and hens are kept on the farm for the enjoyment of customers.
Sabina has her own bakery, where she bakes bread, archipelago loaves, Danish pastries and berry pies all year round. She also cooks, bottles and preserves berries in the same premises.
– I freeze berries in the summer and make juice and jam from them in the autumn and winter, says Sabina.
The jams, which Sabina has developed herself and which have won prizes at several food craft competitions, are the pride of Närboden. She says she makes 4,000-5,000 jars of jam a year. But what is the secret?
– The production is done in small batches. I use only berries and pectin in the jam, no additives or water. I also try out different spices, for example the Raspberry Joy jam, which is made from wild raspberries, contains a little liquorice root, Sabina reveals.