Farm Kitchen

The farm kitchen has also been called the milk room, which hints at the many uses of the building. The farm kitchen has usually been a part of the cowshed or situated in its immediate vicinity, like here in Hertonäs.

The farm kitchen traditionally had a big cauldron for heating up water to clean and disinfect the milk pails and other milking implements. The drinking pails for calves could also be filled and feed for adult cattle could be made in the farm kitchen.

Only a few mentions remain of the farm kitchen at Hertonäs and its use, but for instance the last owner of the manor, John Bergbom, was actively and significantly developing dairy farming at the manor from the end of the 19th century to 1917. After Bergbom’s death and the end of the dairy farm at Hertonäs, the farm kitchen has been used as a gathering place for scouts and as storage, among other things.