We live off grid in Norway, on a small farm. Here we try to grow our own food and be self-sufficient in every way. We get help plowing up the soil from woolly pigs and old north sheep helps with forestry and scrub eating. As far as possible, all plants and animals have a function, and we are constantly working to increase the degree of good ecological interaction.
We make videos of our daily life with plants and animals, and small and large projects. We are not trained in agriculture, but we love to learn and enjoy everything we discover/stumble upon along the way.
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Also, I look forward to the potato video.
We are already tasting potatoes almost every day. And it is so exciting😀 The video is also in progress.
It is relaxing to look back thrue the season of growths. All the animals popping bye and the national sounds♥
Thank you so much ❤️
I was smiling many times when watching your 'garden diary'. First of all each time when I saw the veggies I also have ( violet beans for example) later when I saw your zucchinnies which fruit in abundance ( I eat zucchini 3 times a day 😂 because mine fruit like crazy too). Finally when I saw your potatoe field which is fantastic. I do feel like improving my 'potato knowledge' as I was to lazy. Thank you so much for a splendid video, as always😊
🥰 We're drowning in zuccinnies now too, it's in a smoothie for breakfast, bread pancakes or waffles for lunch and in all varieties for dinner 🤣 It's so nice that our life here is relatable and that you watch the videos ☺️🙂
Very Vary 🥰😊GooD❤❤❤👍
Thank you🙂🙂🙂
Wow thank you so much! Im so excited starting to make my own lye and soap at home... i have a question if i can also use cococnut oil or olive oil instead of animal fats? Also you have a measure there to check the degrees.. is it possible without that? Please let me know.. oh and another question, i didnt quite understand the trick with the potatoe.. when its clean then the lye is ready? Thank you very much! This video is the only i could find on youtube being so helpful🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌷🌷🌷
Hello there☺️Thank you very much for the nice feedback 🙂 It's fine to make soap with fats other than animal fat, but I'm not sure about the quantity in relation to lye water then. The potato is to measure when the lye has become strong enough, the correct strength of the lye is when the potato floats in the liquid by about 1/10 above the lye water. Good luck with soap and lye making 🙂
@@wildandwoolly okey! Thank you very much🙏🏻🙏🏻
So much beauty. We mostly have clover varieties and peas, Norway 🙂
Thank you ☺️🍀
Thank you for sharing. Most beautiful. When I watch your meadows I feel like in old days visiting grammas homestead. This smell ! Unforgetable. I do have majority of the plants you showed us in my garden or just nearby. They are precious beauties 😊
☺️It is interesting how scents often stick so hard in the memory that one can almost fall through time. There are many wonderful and useful flowers 🥰
Just beautifull, thank you Siv
Thank you 🙂 Hope you are doing fine🍀☺️
@@wildandwoolly Yes Siv, I have some super potatoes so far here,hoping for a super crop this year. Milking my goats now and have separated milk and made a little butter. How are your potatoes and everything? Hugs,Fiona
It is wonderful to hear. Can you manage to use all the milk? Your new milk house looks great and so practical. ☺️ Just posted a video with updates on all the vegetables,: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJmd1qegfaavgco.html I think it's going pretty well this year, some of the potato plants in the potato seed project are sick now, but others are healthy so I'll keep the ones that manage and resist it☺️. Hugs, Siv
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Thank you for your lovely feedback 🙂🍀🍀🍀
Wonderful video! ❤ Also, i wanted to ask, if you start making wine with this kind of yeast, how strong will it be?
🙂 Thank you so much ☺️ The percentage of alcohol in the final wine depends entirely on how much sugar there is in the fruit/berry and how much sugar/honey you add in addition. Our wine and mead tend to be around 11-12 percent, but we've had everything between 9 and 14🫐🍷
Thank you for another great piece of knowledge 🙊 5 years ago I have made my first wine. I was given some grapes. They have a lot of natural yeast on skin so fermentation started just in 2 days. Hoping for a good wine this year too. Do you do fruit wine regularly? Best regards ⚘🌷🌸
It sounds like a very happy and eager grape skin yeast you had, it's so fun that fruit/berry comes with such a ready package for fermentation☺️ What are you going to make wine from this year? We make mead and wine every year from what we get most of the berries and/or fruit. It's such a great way to take part of the summer with us into the dark, cold winter months.
I have never made fruit wine because dispite having berry bushes all the fruit got eaten by my kids. However I will give it a try because we still have some rasperries and a little black currants. My dad used to do the wine but he had always used a ready store bought yeast - which gives the wine this not so nice yeasty taste. I have never made mead mainly because we have no honey 😅 and partly because we are poor drinkers 😊 Thank you so much for ' corresponding' with me , best wishes to Soren. Must admit I love your channel 🐑🥂🐈⬛🐕🐖🐤
🥰Thank you so much from both of us ☺️ We really appreciate that you follow us and always write this lovely feedback s☺️🙂 Hope you will have great success with the wine project. My father also always made a house wine every summer in my childhood, its nice to keep the tradisjons alive ☺️ When that is said,; I think the best berrys always are the fresh strait from the plant, so great that your children has been able to enjoy that🙂☺️ ☺️🫐🫒🍒
I love that it is so easy and free.
🙂 So do we ☺️
So pretty! The only plant I have that the sheep won't eat is stinging nettle and thistles.
Thanks for sharing 😀Sheep are wonderful, 🥰it's really the animal to have in a harsh climate. Nettles are very far down the menu for the sheep here too, but when it's the first thing that sprouts in the spring they eat it, or if I dry them.
@@wildandwoolly They will eat the nettles if they are dry? I will have to try that, I have too many now
At least ours do, but that may just be because they are used to it. ☺️🌱The hens also love them dried, so they get them throughout the autumn, which gives yellow yolks also throughout the autumn ☺️🙂
So cool!! I am going to keep this in mind for some old sheep rugs we have 🤩
Still have to add, the ending of you both is very cute! Always makes me smile😊
😀 Thank you so much ❤️🥰You are to kind☺️
So beautiful! I haven't seen them here yet but I will know what they are now if I see them😊 I am curious what you do with all the tree stumps in the fields? Do you just leave them or do you somehow remove them?
🙂🌷They are so beautiful🙂 In places where we grow vegetables, the pigs dig up every spring, so there are fewer and fewer tree stumps every year. Where we only have grass pastures for the sheep, we let nature break them down itself, and it happens surprisingly quickly. 🙂
So beautiful, both sheeps and foxbells🌼
They most certainly is😀🐑🌷
We have them all over the garden. I didn't know that they are poisonous. How clever of sheep not to eat them. Do you think the smell warns them?
They were actually used as heart medicine in the old days, but finding the right amount (a very small amount) for the right patients has proven so difficult and wrong dosage so deadly that it is rarely used in its natural form today. 😅I don't know about the sheep, maybe smell, maybe instinct.
Best kind of flowers! They seed themselves!
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Always so touching when one can see such a tiny creatures saved 😊 Congrats to duck momma and their lady shepherd ❤
Small miracles of nature🐤🦆❤️ Thank you very much. Hope you have a good summer☺️
@@wildandwoolly Thank you so much. Yes, we do enjoy summer. I am a teacher and it means summer break. We also harvested a very decent amount of garlic, cucumbers are flowing in and generally it is a good year for vegetables. Sad things happen too. We lost our beloved Spitz dog which was with the family for nearly 14 years. The cat has disappeared and did not come back home. However we try to focus on a bright side of life. Wishing you all the best and to Soren 🐑🐑🐑
Oh no! So sad to hear about your dog🥺 Condolences from both of us. It really leaves a huge void when a beloved animal dies. I hope the cat comes back and has only been on a longer summer trip. So great that the vegetables are doing well, hope the season continues to be good. We actually guess early on that you were a teacher due to your literary references and knowledge 😅
@@wildandwoolly Thank you so much. Hugs 😇🤗
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Thank you from me and the 🦆🐤🐤 family ❤️
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What a good momma ❤️
She is the best ❤️🦆
Aw sleepy heads 😴 ❤
Adorable
Great job! Really enjoy your content! Thank you
Thank you so much for the nice feedback ☺️🙂🌞
Cute little ducklings ❤
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Thank you ☺️
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🙂 Thank you, we are so pleased with our "new" sheep rugs ☺️🐑
You guys are amazing. So handy, entreprenuing and brilliant 😊 This year I have learnt a few skills from you. Thanks 😊 Keep fingers crossed for all small and big creatures on the homesyead 🌹🌹🌹
Thank you very much for the kind words 🥰 We don't feel particularly clever but are always curious to try new things 😅 Here everyone is good, both the woolly and feathered clothed creatures ☺️🦆
@@wildandwoolly I do really mean that your nature and animal knowledge as well as old crafts is something I honestly admire. Best regards to you and Soren 🤗
🥰 Thank you so very very much from both of us🙂🙂🙂
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Amazing! I do the same thing here in Canada! Though I didn't know about the outdoor drying method! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for the super nice comment 🙂 Since my husband is Danish, we spent some time finding out why there are different traditional methods for drying grass. It was interesting, because it turned out that there are an incredible number of geographical variations on which outdoor drying methods work best. 🙂 The Norwegian drying rack we use is one of many Norwegian variants of "Hesje"🙂🙂
So very cute!❤
Came across this method of hanging hay to dry from some dutch people now in sweden. It needs scything to work from what they see, machines damage the stems in a way that would make it rot (go moldy) rather then dry this way. They use some thick metal wire for the drying rack horizontals though.
So interesting, thank you so much for sharing. 🙂🙂One more reason to learn how things were done locally in older times, there is usually a good reason for most things.🌱🍀
Thank you. Hard work pays off.
🍀 most definitely 🙂🌱
Tesekkur ederim hep merak etmisimdir bunu😊
You are very welcome 🙂
Such a beautiful film!😍 I really admire your hard work! 🤩 And so important to remember the old traditional work. This is like a history book! 😍
Thank you so much for the heart warming feedback ❤️ 🙂🙂
Hello beautiful girl ❤❤❤
Thank you 🙂🙂
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Try not to lift the scythe up so high, but slide it low over the ground in a semi-circle, you'll get more of the grass, instead of chopping it. It is commendable that you use the scythe, your technique can be improved.
Thank you for your advice🙂
@@wildandwoolly You are welcome. I have mowed with a scythe for over 60 years, that gives me some experience, still love it. Greetings from Missouri
Wow! You lead by about 59 years on us then😅 We can only get better, but it's really fun to learn. Next time we hope to get more of the grass, adjust the scythe more correctly and get better flow in the movements. It will be great. A continuous good summer to you.🙂
@@wildandwoolly kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4Z-lZOuoauWZ6g.html
So inspiring!! 😃 Thank you so much ☺️
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Thanks for sharing your story, NC USA 🇺🇸
You are very welcome😀🇸🇯
not trying to comment but for scything you might look at the movies of slattergrubben. You might benefit from it.
Thank you for your tip, that looks inspiring 😊
Hvor ser det godt ud.. I er så sejle.. God arbejde 👏💪
Mange tak☀️☺️ og i lige måde💪🍀
Så flinke dere er , deilig å slippe all støy der dere bor nå tenker jeg, er noe annet det en i BÆ ;-) for lyst å besøke dere en tur en gang vist jeg er på deres kant:) for ta det når jeg skal kjøpe dyr igjen kanskje🙂
Ja det kjempedeilig og stille her🙂 Vi føler oss så heldige. Du er hjertelig velkommen, vi har masse andunger nå🙂
It is so important to remember and to use old crafts such as cuting hey with a scythe 😊 Nice work
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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. How long will that much hay last? Will you get another cutting from field since it is still early in the summer?
We think there is hay for about 3 weeks and it looks like we can cut the innermost part of the meadow that we didn't cut now one time, and what we have cutt now one or two more times 🙂 Have a lovely weekend 🌞🌱🐖
I love scything also..it is very therapeutic,super work, Siv and Soren kept busy witg lame goats here..hoping for a great summer and harvest,please God.I have dug some of my first early potatoes and they are really lovely but istill a little small but a good size for early potatoes,God bless all your work and crops and livestock. I try to save frogs and wild birds etc here too..no tractors or big machines,mostly all manual work here too and no pesticides evee,have a lovely weekend
Thank you so much for another heartwarming insightful comment from you❤️ Congratulations on the potatoes, so fabulous.🙂 Scythe is very handy. Do you have the same type as in our video or a short shaft? Wishing you a wonderful weekend and good luck with small and big projects 🌞🌱🐐