Sofias Country Gardens

Most of the time, I tend to have an ongoing crazy project. My children just sigh when they see my eyes lit up, as they know that more...

October is the month when my garden prepares to go to bed for the winter. A bit like me really... The darker and shorter the days become,...

In September the meadow we planted in spring (June blogpost) in front of the old farmhouse at Stensund came alive and reached its zenit....

I have to admit I find it hard to let go. For me, letting go involves a lot of anguish and deep thought, long conversations both in my...

Whenever people ask me if I am going somewhere nice for my summer holiday I always answer "Yes, to Snappertuna". I love staying home at...

And suddenly the sun came out for a few days, and although a bitterly cold wind still kept summer at bay I did manage to snap some garden...

May 2017 has been a temperamental month. The first half of May was a mixture of sunshine and snowstorms, completely the opposite of last...

This year we spent Easter at Stensund and Humlegård as usual, with our extended family. The old farmhouse at Stensund comes alive with...

The drying barn at Stensund is an old building where the grain was dried with the help of warm air from a wood burning stove. In Swedish...

As a child I spent every summer at the old farm and several times a week I used to bicycle through the forrest to the Raseborg castle...

While nature has been asleep we have been busy at the farm making improvements to the cottages. This is the reason why the cottages have...

For as long as I can remember I have nursed a dream of keeping chickens. I can't really say why this is so, but I suspect that as a kid I...

Thursday before midsummer eve we always go to the Raseborg ruins to tie the midsummer Maypole. It entails a whole evening of work, so I...

My lovely Airbnb guests Eve and Peter from Bakersfield Canada left me a surprise gift in my cottage after staying for a week. They were...

The garden at Grönborg had been very neglected for many years but the backbones of a nice wild garden were there; large old apple trees...