„Kozatske Podviria” is a farm in the village of Horianivka near Olyka, where they make brynza, caciocavallo, hard and blue cheeses, and dry-cured sausages. The farm moved here from Donetsk Oblast: it was founded in 2016 in the village of Ivanopillia near Kostiantynivka by veteran Serhii Svyrydenko.
In 2017, the farmer won a 500,000 hryvnia grant in the „Ukrainskyi Donetskyi Kurkul” program and used the money to build and equip a cheese dairy. In September 2022, fleeing shelling, he evacuated the entire herd — about 150 Nubian goats and billy goats, a tractor, and some equipment — to Volyn, over a thousand kilometres away. Hard cheeses made back in Donetsk Oblast continued to age on the shelves in Horianivka.
What is produced
Goat farming later had to be scaled down, and cheese and meat delicacies became the basis of the enterprise. In addition to cheese, they make bacon, sujuk, rolls, balyk, salami, homemade fried sausage, and venison products. Using a grant from the Ukrainian Veteran Fund, the farm is developing pig farming and plans to get a hundred Hungarian Mangalica pigs for its own jamón.
Photo: rayon.in.ua.
