Pictures from the 'property for sale'

Guest room, left side of building.

Air to air heating pump.

Toilet building on the north side of the Guest room building. 

A nice place to make a bucket composting toilet, 

because this toilet is only 3 meters from the drinking water lake Farris.

North side of main house. To the right the living room extension.

The food storage cellar, 3x3m,  under the old part of the living room.

Through this raster warm air from below can move upwards. 

Can be opened or closed as wished.

South side of the main house, looking to the west.

Guest room to the left of the building to the right.

Left part of the big barn.

View over the lake from west of the main house.

Driveway coming down here to the left. The forest sloping downhill on the left. 

Would a swale parrellel to the trees be good enough to keep the water away from the main house?

View on the barn, north side.

Main house. 

To the left the extension with bath room and behind it one bed room.

View over lake Farrisvannet, Kvelde, Norway.

From here you can paddle kayak for many days.

Fishing will be possible too. 

And of course swimming 2 times a day.

Drive way coming down on the right.

Barn, east side, on the left.

Main house, south side. Looking west over.

Inside the long part of the barn. 

Many possibilities here.

Look through the window in the guest room.

Here it would be nice with a door too, to step outside towards the water.

Upstairs the main house. 

Guest bed room straight ahead left, with view over the lake.

Here there are 2 septic tanks for grey and black water in the ground.

Kitchen left, downstairs bed room right.

A look through the extension of the living room.

Entrance to the cellar below through the hatch.

North side of the house.

Bath room to the left.

The forest is ending like this just a few meters from the main house eastern wall.

The rock is about 3 meters high.

Here a swale or normal drainage could help moving the water coming down from the forest mountains, into the lake at the south side of the main house.

This is the southeast corner of the building plot area.

A look up north/inland.

East wall of the main house with the forest hills ending

 4-5 meters from the house to the right. Looking north.

Cellar under the old part of the living room.

Here the water comes into the house.

Also the place for the boiler.

Future fruit storage place?

Inside the 3 big garages. Looking west.

Northern part of the barn. Huge place. Full of possibilities.

Look on the future food forest. 

Northeast side of the building plot, along the drive way.

A view from the garden over the lake.

Close up of the forest hill coming down here, 

east of the main house.

Southern part of the barn.

Garage for 3 campers or else.

On the right side, entrance to another garage from behind; a nice place for a chicken coop.

To do list

Maybe in this order, or in a different order.

- building an A-frame

- a drainage swale on the east side of the house, down hill of the forest there. The swale going down to the lake to the south of the house.
- or, a usual type of drain on 2 sides (east and north) of the main house.

- staking out the first swale for the food forest.

- planning the food forest

- building an outdoor toilet in/nearby the food forest
- building an outdoor shower in/nearby the food forest
- building an outdoor kitchen in/nearby the food forest

- building of several bucket compost toilets for indoor use

- building simple kitchen in the guest room
- painting/decorating the guest room, using old beekeeping boxes etc.

- building a natural ladder for climbing into the sailing boat



- building 1-2 swales behind the barn in the northeast of the buildings plot
- planting everything on ther permanent spot

- insulating the guest room walls from outside and replacing the outdoor wooden panels
- placing one or more new windows in the guest room
- making a door opening, placing a door viewing the water in the guest room
- building a 50 cm high terrace along the water and a few steps down from the door to the terrace
- new tiles on the roof of the guest room building

- building a sitting area/terrace in front of the sailing boat
- making a big outdoor table

- building an adobe ovn

- building a geodesic doom greenhouse

- insulating the main house; the walls from the outside; replacing the wooden panels or placing new ones.

- evaluating and building of 1 or 2 docks in the lake

- rebuilding the walls of the next door room of the guest room into a 2-room guest room; wattle and daub inside and wooden panels outside, insulation in between?

Foraging from the garden: dandelion, Malva Sylvestris (Apotekerkattost), 

Gresk oregano, red clover, Geitrams.

Helping

Would you like to come and help? Your help will be very much appreciated. Are you interested in learning from each other? You will receive free room and food for the day. During summer you can sleep in the guest room just meters from the lake (sleeps 2-4), or in my old sailing boat (a L22, sleeps 3-5) at the boarder of the food forest, with the nicest view over the lake possible. During cold periods you are welcome to use the guest bed room in the main house (sleeps 2). Or, if you prefer, you can put up your tent or camper somewhere on the property.
Already today there is the possibility to take a shower in the barn, just a few meters from the guest room.
During your stay you can use one of my kayaks or bicycles. I even have a spare pair of mountain shoes, size 41.

How to travel

If you want to fly, the nearest airport is Sandefjord/Torp airport (Oslo), only 35 km away. From here there are direct flights to Amsterdam (KLM), Krakow, London and more. Torp has a train connection with Larvik.
Oslo Airport is 2.5 hours by train from Larvik. On your way you can make a short or longer stop in Oslo. From Larvik you can take a bus.
The nearest bus stop is 900 meter from the house.
Larvik has a daily ferry to northern Denmark.
Sandefjord, 22 km north of Larvik, has a daily ferry to Gothenburg in Sweden.
It is possible to take a bus from Amsterdam/Rotterdam-Utrecht-DK-Kristiansand in S-Norway and a bus from there to Larvik.

The owner of this permaculture heaven

Annette, the owner

Annette has been using her green fingers since she was 6 years old and occupied all the window sills in her parents house with annuals.

At the age of 10 she had 2 school gardens with edibles for 2 years, which she enjoyed working on a lot.

During her student time in Amsterdam she planned and kept her first whole gardens. She just had to have a garden, otherwise she would 'die'.

When she was 20 she worked the summer picking strawberries on a Norwegian farm and felt in love with Norway.

A pond for a friend was made.

Houses were bought or rented and left again. Many more home gardens were made.

Then she discovered Permaculture and read and watched everything she could find about it.

Annette took a 23-day PDC (Permaculture Design Course) at Panya in northern Thailand. Since then she has been looking around the world for the possibility to start a big permaculture garden.

August 2019 she found the place, not that far from her house.

Farris Permaculture  was born. Plants from her present garden to be split in 2 and cuttings made. Autumn plant school sales visited to buy the first fruit and nut trees as well as other edibles for the food forest. After a temporary place at the northern boarder of the 'building grounds', all greens will get their permanent place after winter.