Natural way of serving

Sustainable development

The environment in the field, in the middle of the nature, is present in our everyday work. It gives us boundary condition to honor and protect it and it`s a source of endless inspiration.We are one little part of a wonderful ecosystem. Cherishing that precious life, is our main principle.

These little things shows us that we are in the right way. We continue expanding the Sustainable process by being involved in Visit Finland´s Sustainable Travel The certification is renewed annually. We have continued our development work with determination, and in June 2023 we were awarded the Green Key certificate for the first time. As our sustainability work has continued, we have successfully renewed the certification every year. The latest renewal confirms our Green Key certification until August 2027.

The Silent People Niittykahvila has signed the Glasgow declaration on climate in turism, in which we commit to halving carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050.

International Green Key certificate for the Niittykahvila café

The Silent People’s Niittykahvila Café has been awarded the Green Key certificate for its environmentally friendly operations. Green Key is an international eco-label awarded to companies and organisations that meet...

Friendly to the environment

Niittykahvila Café of the Silent People offers the chance to try walking on duckboards. The customer service area is covered with planks, not because the ground is wet, but because...

New life for a milk sieve

Pruuuiiii, Pruuuiii…. come home for milking! Mansikki, come home for milking! Calls to get the cows in for milking were heard in the Finnish countryside every evening in the old...

The Meadow Hotel is busy and buzzing

It has never been this easy and inexpensive to start a hotel business and become a hotel entrepreneur. The Meadow Cottage Meadow Hotel is an insect hotel made from recycled...

Old available recycled

The building that houses the Meadow Cottage restaurant of Niittykahvila Meadow Café of the Silent People was originally built in 1957 about 40 kilometres away, and moved to the current...

Carbon sink

The timber walls of the Meadow Cottage are 260 mm thick, which is considerably more than the logs used in the construction of single-family houses, which are 200 mm thick....

Woollen socks knitted using the pattern from Ilmari Kianto’s home vicarage

We wonder whether you will be able to think more clearly, or produce text more fluently, if you are wearing a pair of woollen socks made using the same pattern...

How does dry wood sound?

Can you tell dry and damp wood from each other by the sound of clicking two logs together? Dry wood makes a high, hard sound, but the sound of damp...

Renewable energy

In the Meadow Café, both coffee and small savoury delicacies are always made on open fire in summer. The fireplace, specifically designed and made by order for the Meadow Café,...

Suomussalmi socks

Kirsti Heikkinen also knits woollen socks in grey shades, designed after the pattern of the original Suomussalmi woven wall hanging. The grey socks are made in shades of dark and...

New life for a milk sieve

A milk separator was used to separate the cream from the newly milked milk. The thick cream was churned into butter on the farms. The first separator was invented in...

About the coffee

Coffee beans reached Finland in the 1700s, but coffee did not become common among ordinary people until the 1800s. Fire-brewed kettle coffee takes us back to the old days –...

How to make coffee on open fire

Fill the coffee pot with fresh cold water up to the spout. Use fresh and clean water. To measure the coffee accurately, you should know the size of the pot....