Back into the land of dreams with respect for the drivers / day

The rainy spring is unable to make the Vidzeme highlands gloomy, here in the middle of May, the gently green tree in the background of all shades of white pink colored apple orchard. On the Madona side, the Berzaune Parish has a long history – the 20th century. In the 1930s, Robert Abolina, Alexander Maizitis and later, led by Rudolf Dumbrav, began with apple breeding. Over time, the inhabitants became an official breeding station at the time in the republic and all -union. By the beginning of the 1990s, about 40,000 hybrid apple trees and 16,000 pears were grown here. The disagreement and privatization process, however, has transmitted a stripe for all of this – in 1996, the breeding and fruiting station ceased to exist.

Eve Galina was a teenager at the time, near her native home Namyand with the inhabitants and this neighborhood, Eve is associated with warm childhood memories. After studying and working in Riga, she and her family decided to return to her hometown – bought a collapsed farm, the land, began to restore the apple orchard, created a herd of meat cattle, and now, with real work, dreaming of raising the name of the once famous driveway.

« The hostess comes! »

We meet entrepreneur Eve Gals Jellywhere her mom Maija Galina is managed. While Eve is preparing coffee, Ms. Maija remembers the times when she moved to a pound with her husband – both chemists, working in a chemical factory LatBithimLater, the man worked at school, but Maija was invited to work as a chemist in a lab where the biochemical composition of the fruit was studied. «1982. Year, Eve was still in my pussy. Then the big construction began here – according to the architect Marta Staņa, the project built a large body with a conference room, cabinets and premises for selection work, under the basements of apple, onions. The four rooms were dedicated to the laboratory, by the way, we had the first certified laboratory in the countryside at that time! The most advanced hardware ordered in Switzerland, even in hospitals, ”says Ms. Maija. «In general, the inhabitants were a kind of cultural and intelligence center. There were concerts, exhibitions, social events, another, as if cinema or exhibition hall, was to be built. Or what celebrities have been here: Karl Miesnieks often visited, Karl Sebris spent the summer here. Gunar Cilinski, Elfrīda Pakule, Eduards Pāvuls, Imants Ziedonis, Eric Hanberg, famous doctors, scientists often traveled here. Lydia Freimane was like a hostess when she was hosting a party, in honor of her breeded park Rose Lidia Freimane. Even the big Gaiziņš balls were organized here. »