Sa Vinyeta Vella
Es Migjorn Gran, Menorca
Cow's cheeseProducing
- Hectares
- 54
- Cows
- 60
- Breed
- Friesian and Menorquina
- Joined @seis
- 2024
- Milk a year
- 380,000
- litres
- Cheeses a year
- 11,000
- pieces
Who ran it
Sa Vinyeta Vella is a Menorcan farm with sixty cows, dry stone walls and a cheese room from 1962. Joana Pons's parents ran it until they retired in 2024. Her brother lives in Barcelona.
What we have changed
That winter the farm joined @seis and Joana took charge. We hired a milker so she could stay in the cheese room. We have built a new milking parlour and the milk is chilled with solar power.
What it gives now
Around 11,000 cheeses a year leave here with the Mahón-Menorca PDO. Joana presses them by hand in the cloth, like her mother did. That is why every one has a slightly different face.
Latest
October 2026
- 8Oct
September cheeses moved down to the cellar
+2,860 kg
September 2026
- 15Sept
120 metres of dry stone wall rebuilt in the upper field
−€3,600.00
August 2026
- 2Aug
Fodder bought after the July drought
−€4,150.00
June 2026
- 20Jun
Cured cheeses sold to shops in Ciutadella
+1,940 kg
May 2026
- 11May
Raw milk lab test
−€260.00
March 2026
- 3Mar
New milking parlour
−€38,000.00
January 2026
- 17Jan
Winter cheeses rubbed with oil and paprika
+2,300 kg
The map
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- Pasture32 ha
- Fodder12 ha
- Holm oak and scrub6 ha
- Banks and boundaries2.6 ha
- Water0.4 ha
- Workshop1 ha
- Total54 ha
What comes next
2025Done€22,000
Solar panels for the milk chiller
The milk is chilled by the sun.
2026Done€38,000
New milking parlour
Milking sixty cows takes an hour less.
2026Under way€14,000
Rebuild the dry stone walls of the fields
They keep moisture in the soil and the grass lasts longer.
2027Planned€65,000
A bigger curing cellar
Room for 4,000 more cheeses.
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