After the lockdown was suspended and borders opened again in Norway July 15, finally interested Workawayers could get a positive answer to come from me.
Here some pictures of some Workawayers, helping me with different tasks. Everything from the chickens feeding closing and opening the coop, cutting trees, paint scraping to heavy soil moving.
Sunset seen from the outdoor kitchen area, on August 25 at 21.00 hours. Just before closing the chicking coop.
The outdoor kitchen. Next year there also will be an indoor kitchen to use in case of 'bad' weather. Just behind you see red Amaranth of which the seeds will be given to the chickens during winter. The leaves are very protein rich too and can be cooked or eaten in a salad.
Thumps up after their first shower in the lake. The water in august is 22 C.
When the new chicken coop for rolling around on the property was ready, the chickens had to be 'put to bed' to learn where to sleep the coming months. The breed is White Sussex, which are very easy to work with. Well done Sue.
So nice to see that people become happy of cooking on fire. Some visitors told me that they are going to build one like this too.
The thick sand is to prevent fire spreading underneath through the ground.
In the back left, the guest house.
A look from the water on the boat beach or shower beach. Here it is good swimming in shallow and warm water if you want.
Are you going to kayak, you have to slide the kayak over the grass, onto a yoga mat to prevent scraping up the kayak, into the water.
One kayak is wide with a flat bottom, impossible to turn around. The other one is a ladies kayak, with a narrow hole to enter, with a round bottom, and when you do not sit exactly in the middle is easy to tip.
Kayaking on the lake along various different scenes.
Long long ago there was a glacier here and when the ice melted mountains were formed. 30 million years ago the see was 180 meter higher then today.
Looking at the farm from the kayak. The big red building is the barn/garage. The guest house behind and just to the left of a big oak. The farmhouse to the right. The boat is the white to the left.
Just across from the farmhouse there is a lot of heather.
Buying an old farm, means not only starting a garden project, but also project old house. Here a workawayer helping me with scraping of 'loose damaged' paint.
There is an electric chain saw, but then you need many electric cables to reach this area. The job can also be done sawing by hand, or like here done by ax. Workawayer Stephan really likes working with wood and an ax.
My permaculture heart, and the workawayers heart, hurt when cutting this tree. But planting fruit trees, they need sunshine to provide ripe fruit, so several big trees had to go. Here we open up the forest to the west, along the lake, to not only let in sunshine, but also reflection of the sunshine on the water of the lake.
