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Gallery

  • Aerial view of the farm buildings set in a green valley of fields and forest in low golden light.
    Østre Dal Gård from the air
  • A dark timber farmhouse with a turf roof beside a tall pine tree under a blue summer sky.
    The old farmhouse in summer
  • A gravel track running under a timber gateway with a turf roof, with trees and a log cabin alongside.
    The way in
  • A person standing still beneath the timber gateway, which is topped by a green rooster figure.
    Standing in the gate
  • Several old Norwegian log buildings with grass roofs standing close together in bright sunshine.
    Historic houses on the property
  • People leaning out over the carved wooden balcony of an old storehouse loft.
    The loft above the tun
  • Five people close together on a decorated timber balcony, looking down and smiling.
    The circle, from the loft
  • A large group of adults and children, some in traditional dress, standing in front of an old log building.
    Gathered at the loft
  • A meal in progress around a long wooden table in a rustic kitchen, plates and dishes shared along it.
    One long table
  • A timber room with a painted blue bench, a spinning wheel and a built in bed against the wall.
    Inside the old house
  • Sunlight across a kitchen while children play with a red ribbon and a woman looks on.
    Morning in the kitchen
  • Two young people digging a garden bed with spades in front of a house.
    Hands in the ground
  • A person digging soil beside a wheelbarrow, with green hills stretching away behind.
    Building by hand
  • A young man working with a wheelbarrow at a compost bin, the valley wide open behind him.
    Closing the loop
  • A person sitting on the grass covered roof of a log building, working next to a stone chimney.
    Work on the turf roof
  • The bare timber frame of a large greenhouse standing in a grass field under a clear sky.
    New timber going up
  • A black barrel sauna with smoke rising from its chimney against an orange evening sky.
    The sauna at sunset
  • The black barrel sauna resting on a trailer in a green field under a blue sky.
    The sauna
  • A terrace with garden furniture looking out over the farmyard towards a bright sunset.
    Evening over the farm
  • A single hen standing beside a wooden fence in a field in soft hazy morning light.
    The hens are up first
  • A woman crouching with a child to watch a flock of hens behind an orange net, with two men and an old log shed beyond.
    Meeting the hens
  • A child walking through tall summer grass in a pasture where two long haired cattle graze at dusk.
    Out to the cattle
  • A gravel road running between tall birches and a wooden fence, with low evening sun across a green field.
    The avenue in August
  • A carved wooden sign on a log wall explaining that the main house comes from Uppstad in Valle, Setesdal, built in three stages from the early 1700s to the early 1800s.
    Where the main house comes from
  • A person carrying a child past a red painted cupboard and built in bed in an old timber room.
    Inside the Setesdal house
  • A child in a purple dress working an old wooden butter churn beside shelves of wooden tools.
    The butter churn
  • A bearded man in a red shirt standing at the low door of an old log storehouse with a carved loft above.
    Tharald at the loft his grandfather brought here
  • A man tending tall tomato plants and flowers inside a timber framed greenhouse in full growth.
    The greenhouse, one season on
  • A child's hands holding three ripe red tomatoes above the plants they came from.
    First tomatoes
  • Two children sitting on the sauna bench, looking out through the large window over fields and the valley.
    The view from the bench
  • The black sauna with its chimney and wooden steps in a field under a dramatic evening sky.
    The sauna before an evening session
  • A woman smiling from a wooden cold water tub beside an old log building.
    Cooling down
  • The empty turf-roofed timber gateway over the gravel road into the farm, between birches with their first yellow leaves and log storehouses on either side.
    The gateway into Østre Dal Gård