Large wheels of alpine cheese age on wooden shelves in a cellar on an alp farm in Switzerland.
Large wheels of alpine cheese age on wooden shelves in a cellar on an alp farm in Switzerland.

Alpfarm Spiez, Switzerland

ByZayera

Photos from Switzerland

Cheese wheels lie on long wooden shelves in a dark cheese cellar near Kiental.
Rows of cheese wheels with numbers age on shelves in a Swiss alp farm cellar.
A large copper cheese vat stands in the dairy room of an alp farm in Switzerland.
Milk fills a copper cheese vat in the dairy of an alp farm near Kiental.
Young calves rest on straw in a wooden stall on an alp farm in Switzerland.
Two cows with large bells lie face to face in a barn on a Swiss alp farm.
Cows with bells lie on straw in a wooden stall on an alp farm near Kiental.
Two cows with big black bells rest in a wooden stall on a Swiss alp farm.
Yellow flowers grow in a green alpine meadow near Kiental in Switzerland.
Purple cranesbill flowers and yellow buttercups grow in an alpine meadow in Switzerland.
Yellow buttercups grow in tall grass on an alpine pasture near Kiental.
Small wildflowers grow in tall grass on a mountain meadow in Switzerland.
Young calves graze on a green slope of an alpine pasture near Kiental.
A brown calf eats grass on a green alpine pasture in Switzerland.
A calf stands in a meadow at the edge of a pine forest near Kiental.
Cows graze on a mountain pasture between pine forests in Switzerland.
A woman and a small child hold flowers in a meadow in the evening.
A woman and a small child stand in a meadow at dusk near Kiental.
A map board shows the hiking trails of Reichenbach and Kiental in Switzerland.
Yellow Swiss hiking signs show walking times to places near Kiental.
A sign shows the map of the Kientaler Sagenwege legend trails near Reichenbach.
The name Kiental is carved into the wooden back of a bench in Switzerland.
A wooden bench with the name Kiental stands behind a pot of flowers.
Snowy mountains rise above the Kiental valley under an evening sky.
A brown cow walks across the yard of a wooden alp farmhouse in Switzerland.
Two cows drink from a metal trough in the yard of an alp farm near Kiental.
Two babies sit in strollers in front of a pasture with cows.
Two babies in strollers look at the camera on an alp farm.
A wooden alp farmhouse with milk cans stands below a green slope in Switzerland.
People and a child stand at the wooden stable doors of an alp farm.
A cow with a big bell walks out of a wooden stable door on an alp farm.
Brown and white cows stand outside a wooden farmhouse on an alp near Kiental.
Several cows with bells stand along the wall of an alp farmhouse in Switzerland.
Zayera Khan takes a selfie with a baby inside a wooden alp farmhouse.
A simple kitchen with shelves and a wooden door is inside an alp farmhouse.
Two babies play with toys in a box in a wooden room on the farm.
Two babies stand in a toy box and look at the camera in a farmhouse.
A cow stands next to a milking machine in a wooden stall on an alp farm.
Two cows with bells rest in a stall with straw on a Swiss alp farm.
A brown and white cow lies on straw in a wooden stall near Kiental.
Two cows with large bells stand in a wooden stall on an alp farm.
A person sits with a black and white dog on a steep alpine pasture.
A person and a dog sit on a grassy slope while a child plays nearby.
A child walks up a steep alpine slope with mountains behind in Switzerland.
Cows walk around an alp farmhouse above a green valley in Switzerland.
An alp farmhouse stands on a green slope with a lake in the distance.
Calves stand in a small feeding pen next to a wooden barn on an alp.
Green pastures look out over a wide valley and mountain ridge in the Bernese Oberland.
A woman works in the clean dairy room where cheese is made on the farm.
Two people work next to a large copper vat in a farm cheese dairy.
A fenced pasture looks down a green valley toward a distant lake in Switzerland.
A young man lifts a wheelbarrow over a manure heap in front of a barn.
A young man pushes a wheelbarrow onto a large manure heap at an alp barn.
A young man stands with a wheelbarrow behind a large manure heap at a long barn.
Cows graze on a green slope below pine forests near Kiental.
Zayera Khan cleans straw from a cow barn with a fork on an alp farm.
Zayera Khan works with a pitchfork in a wooden cow barn on an alp farm.
Straw lies on the floor of an empty wooden cow barn on an alp farm.
A woman sweeps the path in front of an alp farmhouse in Switzerland.
A person shovels straw into a wheelbarrow in a dark cow barn.
Fresh straw covers the floor of a clean wooden cow barn on an alp.
A long aisle leads to an open door at the end of a wooden cow barn.