Miia Ollila wanted to support herself as a miller, but the dream was impossible to achieve
HS in Elimäki|Miller Miia Ollila is a super woman who runs a large family alongside the mill.
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Miia Ollila, 38, has fulfilled her dream by moving from the suburb of Helsinki to the country and becoming a miller in Elimäki.
Ollila now lives on the farm, cultivates fields and runs Raussila’s mill while raising six children.
Myllär’s work is challenging as it is difficult to maintain old equipment and the clientele has decreased.
In order to complement their livelihood, Ollila has begun to sell barbecue food and pastries at events.
There is 2014 and Helsingin Sanomat have come to interview New miller of Raussila Mill in Elimäki.
He is an interesting case. As a woman, she is a rarity among miller, and she is a second -generation stadium, raised by Kannelmäki apartment block.
Miia Lehto Already decided at South Kaarela Secondary School that he would move to the country and start cultivating the land.
He went hard to pursue his dream, went to an agricultural school and also acquired an agrologist papers.
In 2014, the dream has almost come true, as the job is in the middle of the fields in the mill. But home with two children is still in an apartment building.
« The dream would be my own space and the fact that I would get a permanent bread, » says Lehto in the story.
Will be rewinded forward until 2025 and let’s see what the mill now has.
The mill’s machines are from the late 1930s. When the mill grinds, the noise is loud.
Whether Dream from the house on the ground and does the mill bring bread?
Yes and no, Miia, 38, who has been called Miia Ollila in between, responds to the tractor’s mill. A local Maajussi has been found as a husband.
Ollila lives on a husband’s home on a tractor ride from the mill, cultivates fields and grows pigs. Chickens, cats and dogs are also in the yard. And six children. Occasionally nine when the children born from the previous cohabitation are on the farm.
Ollila could not imagine this at the age of 28.
« I never dreamed of a big family. »
Two The smallest is on the mill today. Five -year -old Mink Grasps the brush and starts to sweep the grains on the mill floor. Juho Grab the toy tractor and drive it over the grain pile.
Children are not in kindergarten at all, so the mill is a familiar place for them.
« That’s where they go to the sidelines. With the man, it is summed up in the mornings that according to which children leave. »
On the mill, the children draw on the plugs, make cereals and climb over the old sawmill.
Although the situation seems idyllic, you can only imagine what kind of adjustment you have to do with six children. When someone becomes ill, the nearest health center is 30 kilometers away in Kouvola. When something breaks down in the mill and there is no part. When things are accumulating, but there is no lounger.
Olli admits that things have sometimes had to be handled at the expense of my own coping.
« It has been such that the day before childbirth, I have been here to do things, then I have been to Kotka to give birth and on my way home I have taken care of the mill’s things. »
Even after the surgery of the intestine, Olli came straight to the mill because it had a high season.
« I tweeted here twice when the stomach was terribly sore. »
Issue They are used to the fact that when a mother leaves before breakfast in a nightgown just suddenly « walking on the mill », that may mean that she comes back in the same night out from the evening.
« It’s hard to break from these things. »
Although the husband can « fix everything » and handle some things on the mill, he does not control the whole process. Mill’s wartime devices require familiarity. When any part breaks down, there is no instruction manual and spare parts may not be found on the hardware store shelf. For example, a waltz that is in good condition should be sent to Sweden for service.
Ollila himself has learned things through the company and the mistake. At the beginning of the former miller, Timo Tammentie The phone rings frequently.
Now the calls have become thinner, as Ollila already knows how to get the strap back in place and how to work to prevent the elevator from being clogged.
The youngest plays with a bucket loader in flour pile.
Raussila Mylly celebrated her 110th anniversary last year. Time will tell if the mill will be celebrated for more years. Many village mills have ceased operations in recent years.
In the previous However, the wish mentioned in the interview that the mill would make permanent bread has proven difficult.
« The clientele has faded a lot. In the past, small grain farms dried cereals here, but now most of them have stopped and large farms have their own drying stations. »
Sales of their own grain mixtures have also been low. People buy flour from the Market in the midst of other purchases and often put the cheapest flour of the big mill in the cart.
« People are not ready to pay for the end product as much as it should get it to make sense. »
For this reason, only a few flour bags are on sale on the mill’s shelves. Ollila is about to stop his own flour sales.
« In the future, I will only make oatmeal. »
Mill Ollila, at least not yet, is not going to stop. This is a good news for farms that want to grind small amounts of grain as the number of small mills has decreased radically in recent years.
From the mill It is estimated that there are less than thirty small mills.
When It seemed that the mill alone would not be to bring bread, Ollila began to develop alternative ways to make money.
Now in the yard there is a tuned barbecue wagon that can be driven to different events. Ollila sells not only barbecue food but also the pastries he made. Downstairs in his own home, he has made a kitchen where he can bake.
In summer, Mikko, Miia, Juho and Minka Ollila travel with a barbecue wagon at summer events selling a snack.
If Ollila should give a 28-year-old some advice, he would advise you to prepare for surprises.
« I don’t know if the courage would have been enough to do all of this if I had known at the beginning of what was going to come. »
A little practical advice would also go to the young mill:
« Don’t open the bottom door too large to prevent the elevator from being clogged. You will save on a shovel when you don’t have to empty hundreds of pounds of grain by hand. »
Although it is sometimes heavy and chaotic, it is exactly what Olli wants to do.
« I haven’t regretted for a moment. »
« Yes, this is much more of my thing than living in a block of flats in Helsinki. »
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