Carpathian Shepherds 🌲 Milking Cows & Homemade Cheese in the Mountains

Описание: 🌲 A day with Carpathian shepherds in the Ukrainian mountains — from milking cows at sunrise to making authentic cheese over fire. Experience traditional village life on a remote polonyna.

In this documentary, we spend a full day with a shepherd family in the Ukrainian Carpathians. On a remote polonyna (mountain meadow), they preserve ancient traditions of cheesemaking, farming, and simple living.
🔥 What you’ll see in this video:
✔️ Morning cow milking in the highlands
✔️ Making traditional Carpathian cheese: budz and brynza
✔️ Life of shepherds far from civilization
✔️ Cooking, eating, and living in harmony with nature
✔️ Village lifestyle in the Carpathian mountains

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⏱ Chapters:

00:00 - 00:05 - Dawn on the Mountain Pasture (Polonyna)
00:05 - 07:27 - The Morning Milking Ritual
07:27 - 13:24 - Ancient Secret: Filtering Milk with Pine Branches
13:24 - 16:14 - Preparing the Fire for Cheesemaking
16:14 - 17:12 - Simple cheesemaker's lunch
17:12 - 21:43 - The Main Process: Cooking the Carpathian Cheese
21:43 - 25:01 - The Birth of Cheese: Separating the Curd from Whey
25:01 - 28:44 - Feeding calves with fresh whey
28:44 - 35:27 - Hand-Pressing the Fresh Cheese
35:27 - 39:28 - End of the day in the meadow
39:28 - 42:17 - Majestic landscapes of the Carpathians

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