We recently sold our farm and moved to Rolstad Gård, which is at the edge of the municipality on the way to Eidsvoll. It’s a beautiful farm surrounded by the river Vorma on one side, and forest with lakes on the other. It’s also a Christmas tree farm and we came just in time for…
For the years I´ve been growing vegetables in my 300m2 poly-hoop greenhouse, I´ve dreamt of what I would do differently if I was ever to build a new one. The benefits of having so much space are obvious to anyone who has grown in a small greenhouse and has dreamt of scaling up. Realizing that…
We recently moved to this beautiful farm called Rolstad where we are renting the top two floors of the dark yellow house. The first floor is still unoccupied, and we are looking for someone who would like to rent it for 8000 nok a month. It has two bedrooms, an office, living room and kitchen. …
July 23, 2022 While attending the Norwegian Seed Savers gathering in Ringebu recently, I met Malin Jonasson. She runs Hurdal Gjestegård which is one of 8 historical priest farms that the Schubelers Gardens has been granted funding to improve this year. We stayed in touch, and I have over the past weeks done popup farmers…
Continue reading Establishing a Perennial Garden at Hurdal Gjestegård
Onsdag 17 August kl 14:00 ved Hurdal Gjestegård. Jeg oppdaterer listen snart men tar med meg følgende garantert. Si ifra om det er noe spesielt folk vil ha så tar jeg med det også. Grønnsaker: Fersk grønnkål bunt: 35 kr Franske bønner: 50 kr bunt. Agrurk: 25 kr stk. Salathoder: 35 kr Staude Ruccola bunt:…
I recently attended a gathering organized by the Norwegian Seed Savers which included a broad network of gardeners and plant enthusiasts from all over Norway. We gathered in the priest’s farm at Ringebu which is one of the jewels in the crown of the recently established Schübeler Gardens. Frederik Schübeler (1815 – 1892) was a Norwegian botanist and curator at the…
Continue reading In the footsteps of Wergeland and Schübeler
For several years prior to Covid I partook in the Botanical Gardens plant marked each spring This year I´m back and look forward to seeing friends and familiar faces who want to buy plants from me. Here is the link to the event which I advise people to attend Platemarked. If anyone wants to come out…
As I posted recently on my blog post Selling the Farm, I will be moving to a new farm nearby called Furuvoll. I have long wanted to downsize to a tiny house and one idea I played with for a while was to set up one or two on the farm so that…
Selling the Farm After over a decade on the farm the time has come to selling it. Here is the link for those who may want to buy it. The showing is on the 2nd October. We will be staying in Nes and I have moved temporarily to a vegetable farm nearby called Furuvoll. We…
Studying organic agriculture was a letdown for me. I had expected to learn about ecology but was instead confronted with the workings of tractors, contribution margin calculations and basically conventional agriculture minus the sprays. I wanted to learn about how to relate to ecology in a sustainable way based on the science of ecology. Instead…
