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Why Organic?

For us, organic farming means using cultivation methods adapted to the organic carbon-based life cycle that is the foundation of all life on our planet.

Nature has over millions of years developed a finely tuned system where nothing goes to waste – a cycle of life, nutrition and renewal so complex that we humans have barely begun to fully understand.

Using the energy of the sun, plants convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen through photosynthesis – a process so elegant in its simplicity, and so powerful in its reach, that it is literally the foundation of life for everything that breathes on earth.

 

Below the surface, an equally fascinating dance takes place: plants exchange glucose and starch with the microorganisms in the soil for minerals and other nutrients. In one handful of living, fertile soil there are more microorganisms than there are people on the entire planet. These are the invisible workers we collaborate with – not chemicals.

This process is essential for building and regenerating fertile soil and for producing healthy, nutritious plants. Soil that is alive is soil that gives.

 

Our job as farmers is therefore to cultivate the soil to maintain and build up its humus content and stimulate the biological life within it.

In this way, plants and soil organisms can do what they do best – provide optimal and complete nutrition in the right place at the right time.

​In our farming method we don’t use synthetic fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides, we use organic fertilisers that stimulate soil life, combined with mechanical weed control.

 

It is an active choice to work with nature rather than against it – for the sake of the food and soil, for the sake of every living being, and for the sake of future generations.

We believe the best food grows from the healthiest soil, and healthy soil starts with us.

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Our Crops

Evje’s farm has 20 hectares of agricultural land that produces heritage grains. 

We are continually seeking to expand our knowledge base, so that we may maintain the fertility of our food soil.
 

We select our crops carefully to suit organic farming techniques, promote variation, have a great taste with high nutrient density and the ability to grow well in our particular environmental conditions.

 

We supply Sigdal Mølle with heritage grains; spelt, emmer and rye, and the Norwegian Community Seed Bank with multiple land-races of oats and barley.

Research and Projects

Living Soil 2010 – 2019
 

In cooperation with the agricultural authority in Buskerud County we have been active

in research and development of soil health.

The project was called “Living Soil” and was aimed at finding new cultivation

methods to improve biological soil quality and stimulate the microbiology in food soil.

As part of the ‘Living Soil’ project we made a “how to make a basic compost” video.

This compost can also be used to create compost tea or aerobic compost culture.

Compost

After the Living Soil project, Anders began leading research projects at Grønt

Fagsenter Buskerud, focusing on soil health and carbon farming.

An important part of this work is to develop the use of compost on a greater scale to

regenerate and build humus in agricultural farmland, involving farms throughout

Norway.

Contact

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