As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, you are likely to see more and more Norwegians leaving the safety of their homes and venturing up in the mountains on the weekend. Norwegians love their mountainous nature so much they spend whatever time they can in it – for recreation, fitness, hunting or [...]

Sometimes Mother Nature can be kind. Other times she can be cruel. And then there are times when she will toilet paper your lawn, slap a pie in your face and give you a wedgie – all at the same time. Freezing rain (underkjølt regn) is Nature’s way of pulling a real prank on you. [...]

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 [...]