The traditional way of drying hay in Norway is to rake it into a bundle and hang it over a line to air dry.  This method was only succeeded by silage (fermented grass in the marshmallow balls) 15 years ago.  When Moose was a lad the hay was mowed down with a tractor and then [...]

Farmor has a great little strawberry patch in the front yard and this year I’ve assigned myself to make sure we get as many strawberries as possible.  The season hasn’t been very good to us – cold and cloudy – so the berries would likely be few and small but I thought I’d give it [...]

Meet The Jets! – Jumbo Jet, Ink Jet and Brid-jet.  They are two weeks old in the pictures and only Jumbo has her eyes open.  Here their ears are still kinked back and they are covered with their mum’s (ripped out) fur.  Yesterday they turned three weeks and are very happy running around their pen. [...]

My worst nightmare! (Nearly)
Coming up from the bottom field we noticed that Black Betty, the female Trønder rabbit,  was carrying around a stack of straw in her mouth.  Moose had no idea but I guessed she might want to build a nest but it was a tad early.  She was only mated yesterday with Bam-ah-lam, [...]

Trønder Rabbis are a very rare breed of Norwegian rabbit that is on the brink of extinction.  They were developed between 1916 and 1918 by T. Hannemo in Trøndelag.  The rabbits were bred for fur, a black coat with evenly distributed white hairs, which earnt them the nickname Norwegian Silver-fox rabbit.  During and after WWII [...]

These are (just a small pick) of the first cloudberries of the season from our farm.  This year the weather has been sluggish – wet and cloudy – so crops and the vegetation are producing a small yield late in the Summer.  But we should still mange to get at least a few buckets from [...]

I’ve never had rabbits before.  In Australia rabbits are considered vermin as they plague the Australian landscape.  They were introduced via a Victorian governor who brought a male and female over from England for his nieces.  They escaped, of course, and Australia has been riddled by rabbits ever since.  So naturally I’ve felt a heavy [...]

On a farm you get to build stuff.  You find any old piece of wood laying around and start sawing.  No need for rulers or work benches – just a saw and an old coffee table will do.

There is always extra help around (mostly passing of hammers or nails)…

You can’t have a chicken coop without chickens!  After cleaning out the coop we were excited for it be become a lovely home for some nice little chickens but there was only one problem – there were no chickens to buy.  We looked in the usual places like the farmers market pages in the paper, [...]

And here we have a lovely pair of gardening gloves that make a perfect addition to any back pocket…
I never leave the house without my gloves now.  Even if I’m just going for a walk, I always make sure to bring them as it is guaranteed that I’ll be stopping to dig up some weed [...]