Alajoki
agricultural plain in Kyrönjoki basin in Ilmajoki, Finland
Alajoki is an agricultural plain along the Kyrönjoki river in the municipalities of Ilmajoki and Seinäjoki in the province of Ostrobothnia in western Finland. It consists of old marshes which were dried out in the early 1800s and then transformed into arable land through slash-and-burn farming and by spreading clay on the burned peat. In the 20th century, the slowly sinking soil of Alajoki was notorious for its spring floods which are now largely prevented by various flood control methods along the Kyrönjoki river The fields are best suited for growing hay and other fodder, which has promoted livestock care in the Ilmajoki area.
In 1995, the Finnish National Board of Antiquities listed Alajoki as one of Finland's nationally valuable landscapes.
The Alajoki plain is up to five kilometers wide and covers approximately 8,000 hectares. In the southwest it consists of the villages Röyskölä, Fossila, Nikkola and Pirilä north of Ilmajoki's center. In the western and northern part of Alajoki, the bordering villages include Harjunmäki, Könni, Munakka, Katila, and Niemistö. The southern border of the Alajoki area is formed by the railway and road 67, both running from Seinäjoki to Kaskinen on the Finnish west coast. The eastern part of Alajoki is located on the north side of Seinäjoki city center where the river Seinäjoki meets the Kyrönjoki river.
Barns and "sauna" huts
Alajoki used to be famous for hundreds of simple barn buildings for hay storage scattered on the plain, now mostly gone.
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