Communal cheesemaking in the Julian Alps

On 11 May 2024, Špela Ledinek Lozej gave a lecture on communal cheesemaking in the Eastern Julian Alps as part of the exhibition Latte – Milk – Milk, dedicated to the communal dairies in the Alps. The event was organised by the Ecomuseum of Gemona (Ecomuseo delle Aque del Gemonese) at the Friulian Ethnographic Museum (Museo etnografico del Friuli). On the occasion of this year’s 150th anniversary of the first cooperative cheese dairy in Poljubinj, the author outlined the development of communal and cooperative milk processing in the Soča Valley and presented the four alpine pastures – Kašina, Kuhinja, Pretovč and Sleme – where communal dairy farming has been preserved.