NATURAL HEALTH AND PEAT SHOP LehtoPeat Oy
PeatCare is LehtoPeat Oy 's official online store, where you can find Finnish, natural and clean peat products.
HISTORY OF LEHTOPEAT OY
LehtoPeat Oy has a long tradition in the further processing of Finnish peat. The company's founder, Heikki Ruha, has worked as an entrepreneur in the peat industry for over 30 years.
An excellent quality layer of treated peat was found in the Lehtosuo bog owned by the company, which inspired them to also try treated peat production. Today, production consists exclusively of raising treated peat and further processing it into finished products.
LehtoPeat Oy has been a pioneer in the industry. The brand name “Lehtosuon Hoitoturve – Lehto Peat®” was registered in early 2002.
Peat researcher and geologist Riita Korhonen from the Geological Survey of Finland has been of great help in organizing the production of peat treatment. The peat treatment deposit was analyzed and the results were promising. The peat layer found in the Lehtosuo is very old and its composition is ideal for peat treatment. Due to the location of the bog. The bog is about 200 meters above sea level and is a watershed in the area, and no runoff water enters it, only the peat is removed. The peat is clean and velvety, easy to perform various treatments.
Peat treatment production requires specialized expertise. In 1997, the company's owners received training in a long-term training project "Living from the Swamp", funded by the European Union.
The training was conducted by the best experts in the field, who trained participants in the secrets of peat management expertise. Hardly anywhere else is so much known about peat management as in Finland.
However, theoretical knowledge and peat production were not enough for the Ruha "peat brothers", and so they applied to the Jyväskylä Institute of Social and Health Sciences for special training. The "peat brothers" graduated as peat treatment experts in 1999.
LehtoPeat Oy also organizes peat courses to train new peat managers.
Today, LehtoPeat Oy offers around 40 different care products .
There are approximately 250 trained peat managers across the country - peat is the future!