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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.

Vegane gjennom den tronge og bratte Måbødalen

Måbødalen- road construction

26.05.2018 - 11:33

Ringedalsfossen innermost in Skjeggedalen

Skjeggedal

29.03.2018 - 19:01

Workers

Lussand-roadwork

26.05.2018 - 11:43

The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work started in February 1933, and on 9 October 1937 Crown Price Olav opened the stretch of road between Øystese and Ålvik at Fyksesund bridge.

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

Horda Museeum

19.06.2018 - 18:39

Stend station in 1935

Stend station

12.06.2018 - 19:19

From Espe, Sekse and Lofthus there were roads up to the main tracks across the Hardanger plateau.

Espe

27.03.2019 - 11:54

Reisete

Reisete

19.05.2018 - 13:27

Hardanger Folk Museum

Hardanger Folk Museum

27.05.2018 - 15:18

Hardanger fartøyvernsenter

Hardanger Maritime Museum

03.07.2019 - 10:51

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