This is a post I would never want to write. It has been hard enough over the last couple of days but we are coming to terms with what it means to be farmers. The chickens have given us so much joy over the past months. We love to see them scratching around in the [...]

As I know nothing about farming, one of the things that I’m really keen to make is a farming calendar.  This is a list of things that need to be done at certain times of the year like when to empty the manure from the barn catchment and when the last frost is in the [...]

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 [...]