Friday to Sunday
At Hästekasen Farm in Bohuslän (adventure center, fantasy village, permaculture, farming, natural building). Theme: Self-sufficiency.
You can see it as an active weekend getaway, we can call it a course, or why not a practical workshop. We can say it’s about experiencing nature at a farm between the sea and the forest. It will likely be a cure—a small mental “detox.” You’ll participate in various practical farm tasks, get a taste of what old-fashioned agriculture and forestry might have been like. You’ll get soil on your hands and an understanding of what a cycle is. A practical study in ecology.
We’ll discuss nature’s place in today’s society, the future of cities in a scenario where cheap energy is running out, and where humans have irreversibly changed nature and diminished their own quality of life. We’ll talk about food quality after harvesting and cooking with produce from the farm. We’ll discuss self-sufficiency in the city and in the countryside. Do your children a favor—bring them along.
Location
90 km north of Gothenburg, accommodation on the farm.
Fee
1,800 SEK (includes food and lodging—bring your own bedding)
Contact
Participants: 8 + farm volunteers
Food: Vegetarian
Theory and Possible Practical Activities Outdoors:
- Foraging mushrooms
- Composting & soil work (1 hour)
- Cultivation school: Terra preta & biochar production (1 hour)
- Sowing seeds (1 hour)
- Shearing sheep (1 hour)
- Slaughtering lamb
- Wool handling (1 hour)
- Felling trees & barking (1 hour)
- Simple clay cube wall (2 hours)
- Baking, fermenting vegetables (2 hours)
- Carving a wooden ladle (1 hour)
- Making torches and stearin candles (2 hours)
- Making apple juice
- Making herb salt
- Introduction to permaculture
- Bonfire
- Baking in a clay oven
- Drying fruit
- Apple jam
- Music jam
- Blacksmithing
- Advanced bread baking with ancient ecological grains
We adapt to the weather. We’ll make a bonfire, we’ll get lost in the forest. We’ll start the day with yoga-inspired exercises or a walk (before breakfast).
We’ll also have the opportunity to sell our own products, which will be presented on-site.