UzOnkA Cheese Manufactory

🐮🌿 UzOnkA – From Mountain Pasture to Aged Artisan Cheese 🧀🏔️

At around 700 metres above sea level, in the beautiful mountain landscape of Transylvania, UzOnkA is a real, working organic mountain farm and artisan cheese dairy. 🌄🐄

🌱 We follow a regenerative approach to farming: for us, organic certification is only the starting point. Our aim is to work together with nature and maintain a healthy, balanced system. 🌿💚

🐄 Our cows live on pasture and feed on grass, the diverse vegetation of the mountain meadows and aromatic and medicinal herbs. 🌱🌼 They are not fed grain, corn or soy.

🥛 Their milk is transformed right here on the farm into our artisan cheeses 🧀, which mature naturally in a traditional stone cellar nearly 90 years old. 🏡

👣 But UzOnkA is more than an artisan cheese dairy – it is a real, working farm that you can experience for yourself!

During the approximately 60-minute guided farm experience ⏱️, arranged in advance, you can follow the story of our cheese all the way back to its source:

🏔️ discover the mountain pastures and our regenerative approach to farming
🐄 meet our cows and calves
🐐 get to know our goats
  visit the traditional cheese cellar
🧀 and finally, discover our artisan cheeses through a guided tasting. 😋

✨ Many visitors are surprised within their first few minutes by the cleanliness of the farm, the absence of the strong barn and manure smell they might expect, and the clean, shiny coats and calm, friendly nature of our animals. 🐄❤️

🎭 This is not a demonstration farm staged for tourists.
We simply show our guests how we really live and farm. 🤝🌿

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A special experience for families with children!

Children can:
🐮 get close to the animals
🐕🐈 play with the dogs and cats
🐐 meet the calves and goats
🚜 sit on the stationary farm tractors
🌱 and discover where the food on our table comes from.

With advance arrangement or during special programmes, we can also organise interactive cheesemaking 🧀👩‍🍳 and other farm activities.

⏱️ The guided experience lasts approximately 60 minutes, but guests who wish to stay longer are more than welcome. You can walk through the pastures 🌿, spend time around the animals 🐄🐐, enjoy the peace of nature 🌳 and escape the rush of everyday life for a while. 🧘‍♀️✨

Depending on your interests and available time, shorter or longer programmes can also be arranged in advance, with different activities and pricing. 🕐📋

❄️☔ UzOnkA can be visited throughout the year!
We have suitable facilities for visits in winter and in rainy weather as well. 🌨️🌧️

🚗 The farm is easily accessible by normal passenger car: a paved road leads almost all the way to the farm, with only the final approximately 1.5 kilometres on a good-quality, regularly maintained gravel road.

🧀🌿 At UzOnkA, you don’t simply taste the cheese.
You discover the landscape, the animals and the way of farming from which the cheese is born. 💚🏔️

📅 Farm visits are available by prior arrangement.