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Steinsdalen i Kvam i Catharina Kølles strek

Earth and stone

27.05.2019 - 14:00

"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes appearing as loose fertile organic matter; other places as scanty and acidic soil - is found in varying thicknesses over the bedrock. It is the result of 10,000 years of breakdown and erosion following the last ice age, and then several thousand years of cultivation in more recent times. The soil we can buy at the garden centre is a different product than the "natural" humus layer, formed of processes occurring far under the earth's surface. If you dig your spade into the soil where it has not been ploughed before, you will see that there is a big difference in colour, soil structure, moisture and stone content. We might say that the soil is fertile and easily worked some places, whereas other places folk might have given up trying to grow anything on their small patches of land, which then become overgrown with birch and thicket. Modern agriculture does not have room for small stumps between the piles of stone. Nowadays, machines do the job, and they require a lot of space and flat ground.

Finsefetene

27.05.2018 - 15:47

The Hopland mills around 1940.

Kvernhusvågen

30.03.2018 - 09:08

From Rosesmuggrenden, Bergen

Rosesmuggrenden

30.03.2018 - 08:33

The wheelhouse at Hovdanes, Tysnes

Hovdanes

30.03.2018 - 20:24

Klokkarvatnet

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

03.08.2018 - 12:30

The Boat Hall at the Horda Museum houses 26 clinker-built, open wooden boats

Horda Museeum

19.06.2018 - 18:39

Heggjagarden

Heggjagarden

26.05.2018 - 11:28

The transport exchange on the farm Vik in Eidfjord was an important part of the communication network in older times. This is where people secured transport by boat out in the fjord, those travelling across the mountain from east and down into Måbødalen. The transport exchange was situated at “Wiige grund”. Today the highway cuts through the farmyard; the main farmhouse from the 1800s lies on the upper side of the road, the large sea-house, with a bakery in former times, lies close to the fjord.

Skredhaugen

Skredhaugen

27.05.2018 - 15:27

A “chest piece” from Bu museum.

Bu

29.04.2018 - 11:23

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