Homesteading Weekend August - Harvest, storage and preservation

Homesteading Weekend (16/17th August)

Harvest, storage and processing

Open for bookings 🌱

Also bookable without overnight stay for 5000 NOK.

Did you have a fantastic growing season, but wonder how best to store your crop throughout the winter? This weekend course will give you practical techniques for storing and processing vegetables and fruit to enjoy home-grown food all year round!

This comprehensive program (In Indre Fosen, Norway) is designed to equip participants with the knowledge to set up their gardens and the practical skills needed for less food reliance.

Course Objectives:

Storing vegetables in the cellar

• Learn how to store different vegetables for a long shelf life.

Fermentation

• Simple methods for making nutritious, probiotic food. Pickling - how to preserve fruit and vegetables.

Drying

• Learn space-saving methods for preserving herbs, vegetables, fruit, and mushrooms.

Canning

• Explore safe techniques for heat treatment and long-term storage. End of the growing season - how to prepare the kitchen garden for winter and plan for the next season.

Practical tasks:

We will ferment, pickle and dry together

• Sauerkraut, kimchi or fermented carrots!

• Learn to make your own pickles

• Experiment with drying herbs and fruit.

• Get simple storage strategies adapted to your home - with or without a basement.

Course Structure:

Whether you have a large crop or just a few vegetables, this course will provide valuable methods to reduce food waste and enjoy the taste of summer all winter long. It's the follow up of the perennial course in June. We have planned theory courses, group activities, and discussions inside and practical tasks outside.

If you want to read more about the teachers, here is information about Celine & Anton.

Typical course day:

7:45 - 8:15 Breakfast

8:30 - 11:30 Course content

11:30 - 13:00 Joint lunch (food preparation by the group and teacher)

13:00 - 16:00 Course content

17:00 Joint dinner (food preparation by the group and teacher)

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included on Saturday. You will have Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday:)

Location:

The course participants will stay together in the farm Bed&Breakfast of Heggli Gård.

Heggli Gård is a simple but authentic stay, right in the mountains. The rooms cover all necessities but are not luxurious :)

Arrival:

By car:

Enter the address Helsetveien 140, Stadsbygd in Google Maps/GPS, and you will find the course location! If you are coming from the Trondheim side of the fjord, you must factor in a ferry trip with the Flakk-Rørvik connection.

By plane:

From Trondheim airport (TRD, Værnes) take the train or airport bus to the central station. Walk over to the speedboat terminal and take the boat to Vanvikan. We can pick you up at the speedboat terminal.

In case of any unclarities, use the chat function :)

Language:

The course language will be Norwegian but both Teachers speak Norwegian as well as English. Individual questions can always be answered in your preferred language.

Booking:

! To book your spot you will have to pay a 2500 NOK deposit. The rest will have to be paid 2 weeks before the beginning of the course. If the minimum requirement of 6 participants isn't met, we will refund the deposit :)

You can book the course without an overnight stay as well. The price without bed and breakfast (including lunch and dinner) is 5000 NOK, you can choose it at the checkout.