Fruit Attraction, one of the biggest international trade shows in the fruit and vegetable industry takes place next week in Madrid, Spain. Antti Kuusisto (tel. +358 400 256 367) and Olga Aunola (tel. +358 40 709 4843) from Luonnosta will be visiting the event on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you wish to arrange a meeting, just give them a call!...
The biggest open air potato event, Potato Europe takes place in Kain, Belgium this year. The event is a meeting place for the entire potato supply chain with over 200 exhibitors present. In addition, there are plenty of interesting things to see, such as test fields and various demonstrations. Antti Kuusisto (tel. +358 400 256 367) and Olga Aunola (+358 40 709 4843) from Luonnosta will be visiting the fair. If you wish to meet up, just give either one a...
The potato state Idaho in USA has now a new attraction for all potato enthusiasts: a hideout inside a giant potato. The Big Idaho Potato is a 8,5 meters long steel and almost 4 meters wide concrete creation, weighing 6 tons. It was originally built in 2012 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Idaho Potato Commission and was used to market potatoes all around the States. After the marketing career, a cosy hotel room was built inside the potato....
Our company name has changed. Perunakauppa Luonnosta Oy is now Luonnosta Finland Oy. Luonnosta was founded already back in 1986. Over the years the focus of the operations as well as the company name has shifted several times, but nevertheless ´Luonnosta´ (meaning ´from nature´) has always been an essential part of the company and its name. Especially in the recent ten years our operations have grown more and more international, and also our product range expanded from potatoes to also other...
For the first time in our company history Luonnosta will have a stand at one of the largest trade fairs in the fruit and vegetable industry, FRUIT LOGISTICA. The event takes place between 6th and 8th of February 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Our stand B-06 is located in hall 11.1. The stand is organized in cooperation with our sister company TanzaNice Agrofoods Ltd. If you would like to arrange a meeting, just give us a call! Luonnosta will be represented by...
To begin the new year in style, our website has undergone some updating. We have refreshed the color scheme as well as updated the product selection to cover more accurately all the products we sell. Potato is still our number one product, but we offer also other vegetables and import exotic produce, such as avocados and passionfruit, to Europe in cooperation with our Tanzanian sister company....
We would like to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2018! ...
Handmade gifts are appreciated by everyone. If you are enthusiastic about paper crafts, you might also want to decorate your Christmas presents and cards yourself. An old, but still very useful idea is to make a potato stamp. Carve your desired pattern on a raw potato half, dab the carved surface into, for example, watercolor and stamp on a paper. The larger the surface of the halved potato is, the bigger a pattern you can make....
We all know that potato is a versatile ingredient in cooking. Potatoes can also be used for example in making beauty lotion or biodegradable packing material. Potatoes even supply power; many remember the experiment in chemistry classes, where a lightbulb was lit with the help of a few tubers and couple of other supplies. A recently published study presents yet another, valuable role for the potato: peacemaker. After potatoes arrived to Europe and their cultivation her began, the productivity of farming...