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, [...]

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 [...]

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)…

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 [...]

There are three ways you can buy chickens – as eggs in which you’d have to incubate them yourself, as chicks in which you have to raise them and be without eggs for six months, or as grown chickens from six months on but cannot be 100% sure how old the chickens are – when [...]

The Norwegian post symbol is a golden ‘bugle’ horn and the background, which also serves at the postal colour, is red.  From 1647 the horse-and-cart postal carriages used to blow their horns to clear the way as the ‘post is coming’.  This golden horn on a red is a symbol to note when traveling in [...]

Life in Alta is quite different from the rest of the country, even farm-life. So, we thought we’d introduce you to our new inspiration and take you on a grand tour of the farm. As we walked clockwise around the farm to take pictures today, I was ever so amazed at the diversity [...]