About us
Our story
XVII – XX centuries
Ghemu Farm is a small family project built on long-held family values and a deep respect for quality.
The earliest known ancestor of the Ghemu family, Matei Ghemu, was born in the 1690s. His life marks the earliest point we can trace in a family history closely tied to the land, food, and seasonal work. For generations after him, the family lived in one village, worked the land, and passed down practical knowledge.
XX century
The First and Second World Wars brought profound loss to the family. With these losses, the steady passing of land, skills, and tradition from one generation to the next was interrupted. Later social and economic changes pushed surviving generations away from rural life and into cities, leaving little opportunity to continue the family’s work on the land.
What remained were fragments carefully protected and passed on. Handwritten recipe books, kept within the family and shared by our grandmothers, survived when much else did not. These recipes preserved not only flavours, but a way of thinking about food, care, and responsibility.
Those fragments became the starting point.
XXI century
Today, Ghemu Farm marks the beginning of that renewal. While the farm itself is still in development, the work has already begun with the creation of small-scale farm products based on our family’s handwritten recipes, with testing planned for 2026.
These products form the first practical step of the project. They allow us to bring the preserved knowledge into use, while preparing the ground for what comes next.
As Ghemu Farm develops, the intention is to begin growing our own ingredients, herbs and tea plants, to support both our farm products and IVA PLANTS, our existing tea company.