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MILK 3.5% pasteurized, non-homogenized

We do not add any additives to the milk, because of its high quality geographical area and quality fodder, we process it in the most natural way.

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RAW BUTTER originates from mountain pasture milk

The characteristic of our butter is a specific taste and natural yellow colour, which is the result of quality animal fodder.

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CHEESE TOLMINC indigenous cheese of the Upper Soča region, protected designation of origin

Its typical flavour originates from climatic and geological conditions of the mountainous areas, the breed, and the way of livestock breeding. All stages, from the production of fodder, to the production of cheese, must take place in the area of the Upper Soča Valley.

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ORGANIC MILKOur organic milk with 3.5% milk fat originates from Bovec.

Organic milk is produced according to strict organic criteria, which undoubtedly influence the excellent taste and quality of the finished product

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SOŠKI CHEESE with pieces of smoked trout

Enjoy the harmony of taste of the Soča Valley. The cheese is formed by two seemingly incompatible flavours - cheese and fish. Fish are reared by a family- owned company in Tolmin, at the confluence of the Soča and Tolminka rivers.

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CHEESE WITH HERBScollected on the slopes of the Soča hills

CHEESE WITH HERBS

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TOLMIN COTTAGE CHEESE

The specialty of our cottage cheese production is that it is not pureed and that it is packed manually, so it remains lumpy.

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News

22. 9. 2020

1 YEAR OLD TOLMINC CHEESE

1 YEAR OLD TOLMINC CHEESE

The dairy Mlekarna Planika lets a select part of Tolminc cheese mature for a longer time. In cases when it matured on the wooden shelves in the maturing shack for at least 1 year, it is sold under the name “1 year old Tolminc”. During the process of maturing, cheese loses humidity. This is reflected […]

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18. 12. 2019

SOČA SPREAD WITH SMOKED TROUT

SOČA SPREAD WITH SMOKED TROUT

This is a new product from Mlekarna Planika, an authentic fish spread from the Soča Valley, which interweaves the story of local integration as it combines raw materials from the home environment. In order to maximize the promotion of local gastronomic riches, Mleakrna Planika has combined two unique local stories from the Soča Valley. The […]

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26. 11. 2019

KEFIR IS A TREASURE OF NATURE

KEFIR IS A TREASURE OF NATURE

The Kefir of Mlekarna Planika is now also filled into 150 g containers. These containers are full of life! Kefir boasts several different microorganisms, such as lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. Yeasts are capable of producing significantly more carbon dioxide than lactic acid bacteria, so kefir packaging often bulges on top. The cultures in it […]

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16. 10. 2019

CHEESE GIFT BOXES

CHEESE GIFT BOXES

Give present with a story! We accept orders. At Mlekarna Planika, we have prepared a selection of our cheeses for all those who find the taste and quality of local products important. Our business gifts reflect our vision and the way of work at Mlekarna Planika, characterized by the local environment of the Soča Valley […]

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Bogata estate
Museum
Local market and buffet
Posestvo Bogata

You can spend a day with us in the company of animals, rest, and enjoy the beautiful nature overlooking the surrounding Julian Alps. Our organically certified estate in Bovec is important for the production of organic milk for organic products. In a special room equipped only for visitors, you can see and find some information about the millennial tradition of cheese making in the valley.

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Muzej

In Mlekarna Planika, together with the Tolmin Museum, we have built a historical - ethnological collection OD PLANINE DO PLANIKE, where we present the heritage of mountain pastures and the development of cheese making, based on which today's Mlekarna Planika was created.

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Trgovina in bife Planika

In the modern equipped market in Kobarid, in addition to all the products of Mlekarna Planika, you can purchase foods for the needs of a modern household, products from local suppliers, agricultural and construction materials, technique, iron products, as well as souvenirs, and local craftsmen products. A bank is also located here, and you can chat in a good company in the Planika buffet.

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Certificates

,,Selected quality Slovenia,, for all our products

The “selected quality” label for milk and dairy products is intended to label foodstuffs and assure the consumer that the milk is produced and processed in Slovenia, making the products of higher quality. All products of Planika Dairy have this designation.

Designation organic

The European Union’s official label for organic food can be used by anyone who qualifies for organic production and processing. Planika Dairy obtains organic milk from its own certified organic estate Bogata in Bovec.

Protected designation of origin for the Tolminc cheese

Agricultural products and foodstuffs with a designation of origin are closely related to the area in which they are named. Sir Tolminc is registered with the European Commission with a protected designation of origin. This means that all stages of production and processing of the product must take place in the geographical area of ​​Tolminska region, in particular in the Upper Soča valley region.

National trademark of protected designation of origin

The national trademark “designation of origin” is worn by agricultural products and foodstuffs originating in a specific region, place or country. The national designation of origin has Tolminc cheese.

Why choose our products

Milk from the farms of the Soča Valley and mountain pastures along the Soča Valley

"Our cows only eat grass; from April to October we graze them on steep slopes, and flatter area are machined and mowed for winter," says Marko Lapanja, a farmer from the region of the Soča Valley.

Grazing areas

“Cow is milked at its snout," says an old Slovene proverb. Natural and high quality fodder is a basic condition for quality milk and dairy products.

Processing milk in the traditional way

Milk Planika is non-homogenized and pasteurized, thus destroying all harmful microbes, and preserving all essential properties of raw, natural milk.

Higher quality products

Our raw material is exclusively local, Slovenian, deriving from Soča and Idrijca valleys. The shortest route from grower to producer is the key to maintaining food quality with all nutrients.

Eating good food

Milk contains all necessary nutrients. In addition to proteins, carbohydrates and fats, it also contains vitamins, soluble in fat and water, and a wide range of minerals.

Milk does not need to be cooked

With pasteurization, milk is heat treated to a temperature that destroys all harmful organisms in milk, so it does not need to be cooked.

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A long tradition of dairy farming and cheese making in the Soča valley region

The first records on the production of Tolminc cheese date back to the 13th century. As a millennium ago, mountain pastures of the Soča region have been grazed and the Valley has been cultivated. The tradition of cheese making in the upper Soča Valley is still very lively and genuine, old recipes are respected. Tolminc cheese holds a protected designation of origin.

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Local milk from Soča and Idrijca valleys

We buy and process exclusively local milk from surrounding farms from the hilly areas of Tolmin, Kobarid, and Bovec and peripheral areas of the municipalities of Kanal, Nova Gorica, Cerkno, and Idrija. Organic milk is obtained from our organic property in Bovec. Our partners are the Agricultural Cooperative Tolmin and the Agricultural and Forestry Cooperative Idrija. Nature in the hilly area and unspoiled pastures are a guarantee for high quality of our milk.

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Milk preserves natural milk properties

In Mlekarna Planika, we try to process the milk as little as possible so that it preserves natural milk properties. Our milk is NON-HOMOGENIZED and PASTEURIZED, so it does not need to be cooked. The most important in pasteurized, non-homogenized milk is that all harmful microbes are destroyed in the process, while all the essential properties of raw milk are preserved.

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Maturing of cheese on wooden shelves

The maturation of our cheese takes place under controlled conditions on wooden shelves, as our ancestors did. We turn the cheese manually every day. We are one of rare companies who turn the milk into cheese with a natural crust, such as Tolminc or Planika cheese. The key to success is conscientious and daily care of cheese during the process of maturing.

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Butter is made according to the traditional method, in butter churn

All dairy products of the Planika Dairy are natural and genuine in their composition. They are distinguished by a special, specific taste, which is also the result of traditional recipes in milk production and careful further processing.

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Hand-packed and not pureed cottage cheese

Tolmin cottage cheese is hand-filled with the intention of preserving its lumpy texture.

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Albumin cottage cheese follows an over 100-year tradition

Our albumin cottage cheese is made from sweet whey and contains a high proportion of high-grade milk proteins, such as albumin and globulin. It is therefore easily digestible. Production is not serial, but in smaller quantities. With this, we imitate what they have always done on the mountains of the Soča Valley region.

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Farms from the Upper Soča Valley

We decided to buy milk only in the area where we live in Slovenia, and that this will be our specialty. We only buy milk from cows grazing on farms in hilly areas in the Soča River Valley and the Idrijca River Valley. By buying milk from local farmers, we provide consumers with quality local food, while ensuring the existence of livestock farming, farmland, and contributing to farmers’ income and employing workers in our area.

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Faronika Tolmin Fish Farm

It is the Soča River that gave us inspiration for the creation of the Soča cheese, as it combines the taste “from Soča to the mountains”. We added the selected pieces of smoked trout, prepared by the Faronika Tolmin fish farm.

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Herbalists

Raw materials are obtained only from areas of untouched nature. For products with industrial hemp additives, we get hemp as a raw material from the area of the Notranjska Regional Park. Wild oregano (also called dobra misel, i.e. kind thought) is a medical herb, which is, especially for our cheese, picked in the mountains enclosing the Soča Valley.

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Authentic local food

Local recipes
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Rich taste

Eating quality food

Importance of authentic local food

Our products carry the energy of unspoiled nature, coming from the part of Slovenia, where the air is full of life energy, and nature is fairly beautiful and luxurious.

Even in the processing of milk and dairy products, we try to preserve the authenticity and tradition of our ancestors, without unnecessary interventions in natural processes.  Such foods are recognizable by its rich and traditional taste.

By local production and processing of food, we contribute to the preservation of nature, as we guarantee the use of domestic areas for food production and reduce pollution due to shorter transport routes.

Our aim is to contribute to the food safety of the population and to enable adults and children access genuine homemade quality food and thus an important source of vitality.

Did you know?

Most common cow names

The most common cow names in the Soča Valley are: Sivka, Liska, Šeka, Srna, Miša, Roža, Bistra, Luna, Zora, Soča, Bela, Jagoda, and Pika.

Sir Tolminc as a paying agent to the counts

The first records of the Tolminc cheese date back to the 13th century, when the cheese was listed as a paying agent for the charge of the then property owners.

Whey is the highest quality milk fraction

It was already recommended by Hippocrates two millennia ago as a food for health.

Adjustment of cheese making to weather conditions

Old cheese makers knew the effects of natural phenomena, such as storms, on the quality of milk, so cheese-making procedures were adjusted accordingly.

Awards

Special prize for innovation 2023

Yoghurt with Spruce Tip Syrup
(Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition)

Special prize for innovation 2022

Kefir with vitamin D3
(Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition)

Grand gold medal 2020

For pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat and Whey
(Awards the prize Awards the prize Agra – International evaluation of milk and milk products)

Gold medal 2021

For pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat and Whey
(Awards the prize Awards the prize Agra – International evaluation of milk and milk products)

Grand gold medal and gold medal 2019

A gold medal for pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat and a gold medal for Whey! - Whey beverage with plum and cinnamon
(Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products)

Gold medal 2018

For our pasteurized and non-homogenized Milk Planika 3.5% milk fat
(Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products)

The best food consumer choice 2018

Cheese Dobra misel
(Awards the prize The Journal Finance - Agrobiznis 2018 competition)

Special prize for innovation 2018

Podeljena podjetju Mlekarna Planika
(Awards the prize Zdrava prehrana - Inštitut za nutricionistiko)

Innovation 2017

ORGANIC yoghurt with hemp oil
(Awards the prize Healthy Nutrition - Institute of Nutrition)

Gold medal 2017

For pasteurized, non-homogenized milk Planika 3.5% milk fat
(Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products)

Gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal 2016

Zlata medalja za pasterizirano, nehomogenizirano mleko Planika 3,5 % m.m., srebrna medalja za Sir s prekajeno postrvjo in Sir s konopljinimi vršički, bronasta medalja za Eko jogurt s konopljinim oljem
(Awards the prize Agra - International evaluation of milk and milk products)

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