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Santa Dorotea farm in Box, Sipoo, produces over 200 different vegetables, herbs, berries, fruits and flowers on a market garden scale site, including 50 different varieties of tomatoes, grown outdoors. Owner Sara Celvin is committed to ecological practices and soil-conservation techniques, such as the use of cover crops and minimal tilling, whilst making use of their own worm compost and chicken manure. Sara also offers gardening and horticulture services for locals interested in regenerative, environmentally responsible food production, through courses and food events.

Svarfvars is an organic farm located in Raseborg. They produce organically and biodynamically grown goods for schools, kindergartens and restaurants in the capital area and in western Uusimaa – selling both their own grown vegetables, but also sell and import other organic products. Currently their focus is on growing vegetables and herbs both in open fields and in greenhouses heated with wood chips.

Tuomaalan tila is a small-scale honey producer based in Tuusula. The farm is run by Pentti Ojapalo, who cares for around ten beehives and produces honey with a focus on quality and flavour, particularly suited to chefs and pâtissiers. The main source for nectar are various flowers in near by meadows such as honey flower, dandelion, raspberry, different clovers, sunflower, and cornflower.