Our short and long study visits are immersions into Hästekasen village’s lifestyle. Discover our small scale permaculture farm and how we try to apply some concepts and principles into our life. You will learn through our own mistakes, and get theoretical insights as well as an on land practical experience.
You will understand how we have organised our homestead, solving issues around: food production, water, sewage, warmth, shelter, recycling, compost, etc.
An educational parenthesis from everyday life.
Some concepts we use
Agroforestry is a cultivation method where you mimic the forest, one of nature’s natural states.
Natural building is something we do a lot of, simple and cheap buildings with our land’s ressources.
Permaculture (perma=permanent, lasting; culture=cultivation) is a planned cultivation system with nature’s growth patterns and diversity as a model. Attempts have been made to protect the word with copyright, but this has not succeeded, as the concept includes a multitude of long-known techniques and ways of thinking. Permaculture expands the activity of “cultivation” by involving the everyday social aspect of your life and seeing larger wholes.
Self-sufficiency means for us that you increase your activity as a producer in relation to your role as a consumer. You satisfy more of your own needs and become more independent.
Small-scale is everything from a cultivation box on the balcony to fields that generate saleable surpluses.
We plan study visits according to demand.
Study visits
Short version – 4h
The short version study visit is suitable for families with children.
Description
A guided tour of our food garden and our home built houses and constructions, including a tour of our fantasy forest. The guide will detail some methods about permaculture and building with natural materials. You can put your hands in the soil or learn to use a tool during a practical session – depending on season and weather. A fika in Hästekasen’s library is included at the end.
Possible practical sessions (depending on season and weather)
- Collect birch sap
- Soil cultivation, compost
- Cultivation coal – terra preta – urine coal – production
- Sow seeds
- Fell trees – bark trees
- Raise tree trunk – proper foundation
- Simple clay cube wall
Price
25€/adult
12€/children (-15 years old)
-10% for groups of 5+ people
Long version – 2 days (weekend)
Description
The long version study visit is a full immersion into Hästekasen life. It is thought as a permaculture mini-course blending theory, lectures and discussions with on site practise. As a holistic event, the days start with a yoga session and there is an option to take a swim in the sea (a few hundred meters away from the farm) at the end of the course. It is highly encouraged to use these days as a digital detox weekend.
Schedule (weather dependent)
Friday
10.00 Optional early start – work in nature
13.00 Lunch
15-17 Work in nature
Course start
18-19 Accommodation
19-21 Lecture introduction, presentation of participants
21.00 Dinner
Saturday
8.00 Possible Yoga
9.00 Breakfast
10.00 Hike, inspection of the lands South
11.00 Cultivation zones, forest garden, agroforestry
12.00 Water and sewage system
13.00 Lunch
14-15 Theory, discussion
15-17 Workshop cultivation
17.00 Hike, inspection North
18-19 Theory
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Conversation/film
Sunday
8.00 Possible Yoga
9.00 Breakfast
10.00 Workshop building
12.00 Water and soil quality
13.00 Lunch
14-16 Theory: Work methods, economy. Summary
Possible swimming in the sea.
Price
Course
50€/person
-10% for groups 5+ people
Food
20€/day (vegetarian)
Accommodation (simple)
15€/night
Bring your own bed linen / sleeping bag.