Fall break: super boring? No, it’s super cool! If you know how and where to spend it. Walk, play, go out and explore! Fill your days with special fall-activities you’ll find all over the place during your break and then hygge in our Fähus or Hölada. From spooky activities in Siljans theme parks to an outdoor cinema, a campfire or exploring our autumn forests or if it’s raining cats and dogs, do experiments in a laboratory of the Falun mine, […]
A cozy and spacious house, a retreat from the world! A fireplace, lots of candles, a well equipped kitchen, a nice breakfast, boardgames, books, magazines, books and movies, nice beds and lots of forest. All these make you feel hygge (hue-gah). Hygge is the Danish ritual of enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Friends. Family. Graciousness. Contentment. Good feelings. A warm glow. It’s a feeling or mood that comes taking genuine pleasure in making ordinary, every day things more meaningful, beautiful or […]
September: In the early morning, it’s cold and mysteriously foggy. During the daytime, it’s nice and warm. Leaves change colour, blueberries and lingonberries are everywhere, and huge mushrooms pop up. In the evening, the temperature drops to 2 degrees sometimes, and it’s time to light the fire. We love September. It’s also a busy month, in which we can and have to finish some things outside we couldn’t do when we had many guests. No problem in this fine weather. […]
Voor sommigen is een vakantie pas compleet met een gezonde dosis kunst en cultuur. Hoewel de natuur rondom onze boerderij adembenemend is, raden we een uitstapje naar Mora en het wereldberoemde Zorn Museum absoluut aan. Ontdek het indrukwekkende werk van Anders Zorn, de man die de ziel van Dalarna als geen ander wist vast te leggen. Van weelderige internationale portretten tot de intieme sfeer in zijn eigen woonhuis Zorngården: dit is het perfecte culturele dagje uit vanuit Furudal. En vergeet […]
What has the start of new school year, the kitchen garden and our favorite noodle-dish to do with each other? Well, the end of the summer: more time to spend in the garden, time to harvest and put it all in delicious meals. And the dish we are the most happy with, is our Chinese noodle dish (You can find the recipe under recipes to share)! For me as a ‘kitchen garden beginner’ it was real fun to find out […]
We brought our first Work Away to the train to her next destination. Mixed feelings: sad that she’s leaving but happy that this Brazilian girl goes on to her next adventure. Before coming here she wanted to hike and make pictures (since she is photographer), and of course helping us. Just what we needed, we wanted her to make pictures of Näsets Marcusgård and ourselves. We also had a secret mission: we wanted her to experience Sweden like Ronia the […]
Who dares to go off road: camp and make new paths in the beautiful wilderness near Furudal? Hanna and Atse from Holland wanted to hike in Sweden anyway and took up the challenge. Hanna has already some sweet memories of the Swedish forest, but Atse hiked more in the southern mountains like the Pyrenees. Last Saturday we picked them up from the train in Rättvik. They had an interesting trip, because they had landed on Stockholms Skavska airport instead of […]
Always best to recommend a hike to a nice place when you made it yourself and you liked it. Well, there are many trails on my wish list, but the one to Ärteråsen (about 8 km) I was most curious about because it starts right behind our farm. It’s an old path the villagers took with their cattle to go to their summer farms up the hill, Ärteråsen. Our Work Away volunteer Nadia, from Brazil, is a photographer, so it […]
Today I made a day-trip with my mother which might be the perfect day for you too while you are here: worth sharing. A day of culture, nice food and shopping. First we went to Carl och Karin Larssons house in Sunborn, near Falun. From Näsets Marcusgård it is about an one hour drive through a nice scenic landscape. You probably know Carl Larsson (Stockholm, May 28, 1853 – Falun, January 22, 1919) from his watercolors with scenes of his […]