Sofias Country Gardens
Endings and new beginnings
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...
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Sofias Country Gardens
- Aug 10, 2017
- 2 min
The houses we love
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Jun 5, 2017
- 1 min
Sunny days
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- May 27, 2017
- 2 min
May 2017
May 2017 has been a temperamental month. The first half of May was a mixture of sunshine and snowstorms, completely the opposite of last...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Apr 16, 2017
- 3 min
Happy Easter 2017
This year we spent Easter at Stensund and Humlegård as usual, with our extended family. The old farmhouse at Stensund comes alive with...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Mar 28, 2017
- 3 min
The drying barn - Rian
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Mar 4, 2017
- 3 min
Rescuing Villa Grönborg
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
Winter 2016-2017
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Jul 18, 2016
- 2 min
Summer chickens
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Jul 1, 2016
- 2 min
Midsummer days
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- May 30, 2016
- 3 min
I love Raseborg
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- May 21, 2016
- 2 min
Grönborgs garden
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...
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