Pomoć proizvođačima s Lastova – Farma Phoiniks Ladesta

The producer, OPG (family agricultural enterprise) Nataša Bokor and the Lastovska Priča j.d.o.o. (simple limited liability company), are comprised of the four members of the Bokor family: Željko as the head of the family, Nataša the neck that turns the head, and our two teenagers, Matej, 15, and Kiki, 13. We are all fully involved in each of our ventures, and we all participate in the production, processing, picking herbs, bottling macerates, rakias, cleaning fish, washing dishes, milking goats... Regardless of whether we feel like it or if we'd rather be doing something else right at the moment when it needs to be done. :-) The only activity exclusive to my humble self is making goat cheese and yoghurt.

We live on Lastovo, we have 40 female goats and two males (Pero and Toma – let no-one who shares their names be offended – these two are powerful and beautiful creatures, who are very considerate and kind towards their girlfriends, all 40 of them). All our animals have names and respond to them, they love cuddling and petting, although they can be pigheaded and cussed, but our border collie Bingo is a great aid at such times, not yielding a millimetre in his defence of the neighbouring olive groves. We keep our goats in what one might call the traditional fashion, which means taking them out to pasture twice daily for three hours in summer, and once for 5-6 hours in winter. We do not practice supplemental feeding and we do not fatten them, but let them eat whatever nature provides.

There is no veterinary service on Lastovo, so we are forced to make do on our own, although Hela Liverić has been of great help, and is the first person we call when there is a problem (kidding, mastitis, breech births, kids getting stuck during birth, pre-term births...). This spring a lot of our kids died – 34 – and three adult goats too, due to pneumonia. It is our own fault, as due to a lack of money we didn't manage to seal the entire barn wall... In those days when we had it toughest, when we thought they would all die, when impotence and despair grip you, we received help from people we had never even met or known, whom we had reached through Facebook and acquaintances. It is in such moments that you realise that there is a great deal of goodness and beauty in the world, and that even though you live at the end of the world, you are not alone and you are not abandoned. :-)

In addition to goats, we also process trup, an oily fish from the scombidae family (which includes mackerel, the Atlantic bonito, trup or bullet tuna, little tunny...). Trup fish are also sometimes called little tuna, and this is a product for which we received the Croatian Island Product label.

Through the OPG we produce ointments, macerates, liqueurs; we pickle wild plants (samphire, asparagus). For the most part, we do everything the way my mother taught me some forty years ago :-), so although I don't like to think of myself as old (I am 52), I'd say I do it the old-fashioned way. :-)

Our imortelle macerate and anti-rheumatic ointment were awarded the Island Product label this year. We'd like to apply for an Island Product label for all our products, but this does take quite a lot of money, which is always scarce, so we go little by little... We don't intend to quit :-)

Those who prefer so can pay directly into the account HR0923900013200778646 – Julijana Smerdel.

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Proizvođač OPG Nataša Bokor i tvrtka Lastovska priča j.d.o.o. čine četiri člana obitelji Bokor: Željko kao glava obitelji, Nataša kao vrat koji okreće tu glavu i naša dva tinejdžera Matej 15 g i Kiki 13 g. Svi smo punopravni nosioci svakog radnog projekta i svi sudjelujemo u proizvodnji, preradi, branju bilja, pretakanju macerata, rakija, čišćenju ribe, pranju suđa, mužnji koza... Svi bez obzira na to jesmo li od volje ili nam se baš i ne radi to u baš sad ovom trenutku kada treba. :-) Jedino moja malenkost ima ekskluzivu u izradi kozjeg sira i jogurta.

Živimo na Lastovu, imamo 40 koza i dva jarca (Peru i Tomu - neka se ne uvrijede oni čija imena nose naši jarci jer to su dva vrlo moćna i prelijepa bića i vrlo su obzirni i pažljivi prema svojim curama, svih 40). Sve naše životinje imaju imena i odazivaju se na ta imena, obožavaju se maziti i češkati, mada znaju biti i tvrdoglave i svojeglave, ali u tim trenucima od velike pomoći je naš Bingo (Border Collie) koji ne popušta ni za milimetar u obrani susjednih maslinika. Koze držimo na rekli bi tradicionalni način što znači ljeti ih vodimo na pašu dva puta dnevno po tri sata, a zimi jednom u komadu na 5-6 sati. Ne nadohranjujemo ih i ne futramo već se hrane onim što ima u prirodi.

Na Lastovu nema veterinara tako da smo prinuđeni sami se snalaziti, mada nam je velika pomoć Hela Liverić i ona je prva osoba koju zovemo kada se desi problem (jarenje, mastitisi, porodi na zadak, zaglavljeni jarići, prijevremeni porodi...). Ovog proljeća imali smo veliki pomor jarića, umrlo ih je 34 i 3 odrasle koze, razlog upala pluća. Za to smo sami krivi jer nismo do kraja zatvorili cijeli zid od štale pošto je nestalo novaca... U tim danima kada nam je bilo najteže i kada smo mislili da će svi pomrijeti i kada vas obuzme nemoć i očaj, pomogli su nam ljudi koje nikada nismo sreli niti poznavali, a do kojih smo došli preko facebook-a i preko poznanika. Tada shvatite da na svijetu ima jako puno dobrote i ljepote i da iako živite na onkraj svijeta niste sami i niste napušteni :-)

Uz koze bavimo se preradom plave ribe Trup (porodica skušovki, skuša, palamida, trup, luc..) koju još zovu i mala Tuna i za taj proizvod dobili smo markicu Otočni proizvod.

Kroz OPG radimo kremice, macerate, likere, kiselimo samoniklo bilje (motar, šparoge). Uglavnom, sve što radimo činimo na način kako je mene moja majka naučila prije četrdesetak godina :-) pa bi onda iako ne volim misliti da sam stara (52g) rekla da to radim na starinski način. :-)

Za kremu od smilja, macerat od smilja i reumatsku kremu ove godine dobili smo markicu Otočni proizvod. Rado bi mi za sve naše proizvode tražili Otočnu markicu, ali za to je ipak potrebno dosta novčanih sredstava, a toga uvijek manjka, no idemo dio po dio... Nemamo namjeru odustati :-)

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