Small businesses,
big stories.
The people building local businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: family farms, crafts, catering, places to stay and ideas that started from nothing.
8 storiesDragica Milovac’s Janj cheese: when meadows, patience and skill become one flavour
Dragica Milovac did not inherit her craft. She did not learn it on some quick course. She built it slowly, over years, on her own farm, with her own cows, her own milk and the determination to make something…
Read the storyKrupa na Vrbasu keeps more than beautiful nature: its finest traditional flavours and crafts
Twenty-five kilometres from Banja Luka and several centuries back at the same time, Krupa na Vrbasu has a way of slowing everything down. Water, stone, an old watermill and the smell of buckwheat flour being…
Read the storyHeritage by Zmijanka: heritage as a trend and a style that wins hearts
You will agree that most things rooted in our tradition end up forgotten, pushed aside or unfairly neglected. Think how many of them are waiting for someone to take them out of the chest of memories, dust…
Read the storyGusto catering: when a bite becomes a reason to celebrate
Tanja Knežević did not start with a business plan. She started with the idea that a celebration deserves more than average catering that is ordered and forgotten, and the belief that a bite, if made with…
Read the storySladojević family farm: from the field to your table, all in family hands
In Dragoraj near Ribnik, on land the Sladojević family has farmed since 2013, food is made the only way that really makes sense: from grain they sow themselves, fields they harvest themselves and milk from…
Read the storyA Herzegovina farm joins National Geographic’s travel offer
The Kovačević farm, run by four women in the village of Skrobotno on the border between Trebinje and Bileća, has become part of National Geographic’s travel offer. Many tourists from all over the world who…
Read the storyCamp Olimp, where the Vrbas becomes the reason, not the backdrop
Nine kilometres from the centre of Banja Luka, at Vojvode Uroša Drenovića 192, the Vrbas river changes character. It stops being a city river you stroll beside and becomes something else entirely: lively,…
Read the storyTea that changes lives: the story of Herbasense and the women behind every bag
Somewhere between a mountain meadow and your cup there is a story few people can tell. It is not a story about a brand, packaging or a marketing campaign. It is a story about hands that pick herbs at the…
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