This small countryside house near the orchard road was occupied by the Milosevic family for nearly forty years. The owner worked as a seasonal orchard supervisor responsible for maintaining apple and plum fields surrounding the nearby village cooperative, while his wife preserved fruit and sold homemade jams at the local roadside market.
The property included:
a narrow kitchen, two bedrooms, a storage cellar, and a rear utility room used for sorting harvested fruit during autumn.
The Rear Utility Room
Several details still remain throughout the house:
- wooden fruit crates stacked beside the cellar stairs
- handwritten harvest records near the stove
- empty glass preserving jars lining kitchen shelves
- gardening gloves hanging beside the back entrance
- old raincoats drying near the utility sink
- family photographs tucked into mirror frames
- seed catalogs scattered across the dining table
The surrounding orchards gradually declined after multiple seasons of severe spring frost damaged regional harvests during the late 1990s. Smaller farming operations struggled financially, and many younger residents left the area for larger cities.
Several nearby farmhouses were eventually abandoned completely.
The Milosevic family reportedly stayed on the property longer than most neighboring families because the orchard work was all they had known for decades. Eventually, declining harvest income and increasing maintenance costs made the house too difficult to keep.
After a particularly harsh winter damaged the roof and water pipes, the family relocated to live closer to relatives in town.
Most belongings remained inside the home afterward.
The orchard itself was never replanted.
Years later, many signs of everyday life still remain inside the property.
The preserving jars are still arranged in rows.
The stove still contains stacked firewood nearby.
And the final orchard map remains pinned beside the kitchen doorway exactly where it was last used.
