Many farms invite visitors to purchase their products directly on site. Field to shopping basket can scarcely get any shorter than this. They offer a broad range of products, from fruits to vegetables and often even home-made goods. It’s a good way of getting high quality products and sustainability into your kitchen. Let us introduce you to several of these farm stores.
At the Patz family store in Austria's south east you will find traditional Styrian meat products such as beech-smoked pork. The selection ranges from fresh meat and frankfurters to roast pork, pork loaf, and sausage products.
With the Leitner-Eisl family in Thalgau, near Salzburg, it’s all about sheep. At the farm store of their “Stranzenhof” they offer sheep-milk specialities, lamb, and sheep sausages as well as goods from their own garden including spreads syrups and schnaps.
The brothers Thomas and Markus Ehammer, who call themselves the “Milchbuben” (milk boys), market their soft cheeses both in Tirol and beyond the provincial borders. Taste for yourself: their Tirolean camembert is every bit as good as the French variety.
The Gstach family produces high-quality, handcrafted, traditional pork products as well as innovations like dry-aged pork. The Gstachs place great importance on transparency, so visitors are welcome to take a look behind the scenes.
At the Leisch family’s Kräutermanufaktur (herb farm), you will find not only large fields of herbs flourishing but also unusual and robust fruit varieties such as quince, medlar, and cornelian cherries. They are used to make tea, juice, and syrup.
Cheers to the apricot: The sun-ripened fruit is transformed into jams, nectar, juice, liqueurs, and fine brandies by the Kausl family in the Wachau Valley. Even their Wachau Whisky is made from regional grain.
From the tasty Austrian cider known as “Most” and juices to schnapps and fresh fruit: the Rohrhuber family’s farm store offers everything their own farm produces, plus fresh eggs from their own chickens.
Austria owes its culinary identity to both its location in the heart of Europe and its remarkable history. Austria stands for openness to varied influences and a love for refining existing traditions at the highest level.
