One Year Renovation an Abandoned Norwegian Farm
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- About 10 years ago we bought a runed down farm on the west coast of Norway. Our goal for this farm was to bring this back from the sorry state it was left in and make this into the farm of our dreams. Through the years we have been working slowly to achieve our goal but in 2024 we decided to kick things into high gear. In this video we are going to bring you along for the entire year, month by month. We start I January 2024 when we were snowed inn for days. Then we continue to February where we sold out tractor and decided that we were going to go all in on this farm. We were going to be sheep farmers. We renovated our garage, revealed some beautiful natural stone stares, put up fences and biggest off all, we started the rebuilt of our barn. This old set of ruins were finally going to be a proper building once more.
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If you never make any money on all your UA-cam work, you and you family will always have such a wonderful video record of your days starting out life in the country and making the very best efforts to be good parents.
Perhaps a more valuable possession than the money.
This video was a perfect metaphor for life. It has measured amounts of dreams, determination, hard work, tragedy, perseverance, and community to move in the direction of your desired goals. What a beautiful life you and your family have. Thank you for sharing.
A pickup truck, a van, or a trailer.
I’m watching your channel for three reasons. My ancestors came from a failed farm in Norway, so, that was a thing. Seeing you meet problems in a very different way from us Americans is interesting. I like seeing alternative solutions and ideas. And finally, I am really hoping you make the farm pay. You don’t even have to make a living, just…make a small profit. Make that farm productive…which is what you said on your video about UA-cam and profits. I’d love to see someone succeed.
You’re doing a great job with your English. My wife is German, I speak a little German, she speaks English very well…and you are doing great.
I like the fact that you figure out your problems and fix them, rather than throwing money at them. Keep doing that! Best of luck, I’ll keep watching you, hoping you keep chasing the dream, and get to where you’re wanting to go.
This is so fun to watch. Its also lovely to see that farming and homesteading is the same all over the world, with lots of hardwork and reward. Homesteading is a constant work in progress
Thanks UA-cam algorithm for recommending this video. Hi from Auckland, New Zealand 👋🏽
Kiora Mate
I'm from South Africa. Normally watching American homesteading videos. So refreshing! Thank you
You're definitely a hard worker 🙂 But what I like most is your calm approach to unexpected disasters - "Oh, I have a new river and lake around my house... oh well, lets deal with it calmly." 😀 I would have been jumping on my head with steam coming out of my nose at some of the moments in the video 😀 Thanks for a nice example of how one can be calmer when working on unexpected problems on his or her property 🙂
When you are light sensitive i can a daylight lamp recommend. My girlfriend is very sensitive to the dim light in autumn and winter. As i was buy her one and she used it regularly. Was helping her mood and energy in this times.
Congratulations on getting the building permit! That was a quick planning process. Must mean your community sees the value in restoring an old farm 💕
Hardworking and smart people are always good to see. They achieve a lot in life. Thank you for sharing!
Whewww, that was a lot of hard work. Looks like you’re a farmer. I helped my father farm. That must have been a real windy and wet storm! Sorry about the damage around your place. You have some serious drainage to dig and water diverting walls to build. It’s good that you’re a hard worker. Looks like everything you do is good work, WELL DONE, YOU. Farm work is almost never done. Good luck rebuilding your place. I have confidence in you…from an old veteran, retired in the US, foothills of the Smoky Mountains.
I very much enjoyed your video. I was particularly pleased with the rebuilding of the steps to allow your daughter to move about more freely.
Σκληρή η αγροτική ζωη .Καλη δύναμη και καλη χρονιά να έχετε
Great job man!! So inspiring! Wished i start watching you channel earlier. On the other hand i have a few hours now to backtrack with your other videos so lets dig in.
Thank you so much for supporting the channel😄👍
I look forward to you and your family creating a wonderful barn for all the wonderful animals in 2025. Good luck !!
Dette er mektig inspirerende, om 15 år skal jeg gjøre det samme. Stå på! Dette klarer dere!
The longest way starts with the first step. Great job you‘ve started there. There are no mistakes, those are learning opportunities. 😊
You've made good progress for the time you have around working, and not having enough of the right tools and equipment. You need a truck, pray least a small trailer to pull behind you car. Good luck moving forward 😊
watching from Southern California, USA. What a beautiful wall!
Even though I've already been watching how much you've done, it's really hard to believe what you have achieved working on your own most of the time. The concrete for the barn was epic, what an achievement, you are going to one day look back and be amazed at what you actually did. Seeing it all in one video also shows just how much the place changed, the pasture is a great example. 👍
From the US. Your accomplishments are incredible. The barn foundation work looks so exact, and look forward to when you start the framing. Keep up the good work.
Jeg har sett mange dusin slike videoer og med handa på hjertet, jeg gidder aldri å se timelang video MEN her kom unntaket og det er jeg glad for. Virkelig imponert over alt arbeidet dere har gjort og det står en hel masse respekt for det arbeidet du har gjort med hjelp av en spade og trillebåre.
Jeg har de siste 8 årene drevet en venneforening for en gård i Kristiansund, gården er fredet av riksantikvaren og jeg kan forsikre deg at jeg vet hva hardt arbeid er.
Selvsagt abonnerer jeg på deres videoer, gleder meg til neste og riktig godt nytt år til dere alle.
I’m watching from New Zealand. I am Scottish but have lived here for over 30 years. I do not miss the cold & wet. I lived in the north of Scotland too many years with -15C sometimes, brrrrr. I admire your grit, your tenacity, your skills and your perseverance. The walls are so thick in the new building you will be toasty warm in the winter, I love the design. I wish you and your family nothing but health & happiness in the New Year.
P.S. nice gate!
Just found you guys today. The start of the new year. Can't wait to see what comes next for you
You must be a local legend by now 😂❤
As a father of 3 now adult sons with Autism and 2 of which are also developmentally delayed I can relate to you your daughter is so wonderful good luck with all you do and please give her a hug from me and best wishes to her and your family from Maryland USA
Dere har fått gjort utrolig mye dette året, til tross for tidvis motgang går det fremover. Gleder meg til å følge dere videre, og spesielt moro blir det å se låven komme på plass. Godt nytt år til dere alle fra Sørlandet.
OMG! I never thought I was going to watch an hour of Norwegian Farm life and I did 😃😃😃I ve just loved it! Many thanks for sharing! Subscribing right now!
It’s amazing the northern lights. When I was in the north of Sweden and Norway. The lights were just greenish. But it was still amazing to watch.👍👍
18:02 Thumbs up! This is how things are done. Replacing old wood with a piece of steel rail.
Tack för att ni delade både glädje och frustration.Gott nytt år till hela familjen ❤
Thanks
Thanks for your support😄 It is appreciated👍
I really enjoyed watching your video. I live in Wales UK and your farming life is pretty similar to ours. I got too old and my health failed me so we've ended up living in a town BUT I look back on my days on the farm with complete and utter satisfaction. I loved the way things had a habit of balancing out where some days you could be reduced to tears and the next day it would be like living in paradise. I wouldn't have changed it for anything and it's a great way to bring up children. We also had a child with a disability so I can sympahise with you. I can't wait for your next video. Good luck!!
I'm currently visiting Norway for the first time and this video popped up on my feed - even though it's not the kind of thing i'd usually watch! But my mum and I both really enjoyed watching this all the way through. Great pacing and we got so invested in your success and misfortunes. We both thought that my mum's dad, who was a hurdle maker (a special kind of fence for pigs) would have been very impressed at all of your hard work, as were we. How you manage this alongside a job I can't imagine!! Subscribed and looking forward to future updates
I loved this video. You and your family do soooooo much hard work!!! It's amazing. Blessings to you all in the new year! Happy 2025! Looking forward to watching the barn come to life!!!
Fantastisk video! Artig å se de forskjellige løsningene på så mange individuelle utfordringer. Stå på! :)
This is so peaceful, thank you for sharing and for all of your hard work.
Living in Australia I can hardly believe all the water flowing under your fields. Incredible to see you make this land viable for farming. Well done.
Hi from us here in the UK. Just subscribed to your very interesting chanel. You worked so very hard all year doing work on your farm, so much to do to make it look how you want it. Great news about the barn. Take care all of you. 😊😊😊😊
Wow, that area of Norway reminds me of Scotland-Wet!
Thank you for sharing your progress.
As a second generation of U.S. born with Norwegian And German grandparents I love to see where we came from.
Happy New Year from Wisconsin, USA.
This is the first time I have watched your video. Very interesting! I am sure I will continue to enjoy your future videos! Impressed by your hard work and tenacity!
Veldig inspirerende å se på! :)
Blir jo bra dette, man får mye mere muligheter når man har en låve på bruket. Blir spennende å se hvordan det blir👍🙂
Thank you for the Northern Lights show!
Beautiful works, 👍👍beautiful tractor Fiat, 👍👍, congratulations from Belgium
What hardworking people. You deserve everything in life. Inspiring and interesting.

Such a good job done in one year! I also saw your «quiting youtube» video, an man has the views been there since. Congrats!!
Amazing! Just found your channel
Australian living in Langhus with my wife and kids this is beautiful! Keep up the great work champ ✌️🫶🏻
Such a beautiful farm. Im enjoying watching you bring it back.
I’M exhausted….cold…..and filled with admiration for you. Just found you and am so excited to watch your journey.
keep on building, loved to see the whole story again! Greets from luxembourg
Love your content Eirik! If you're ever short for ideas, I'd love to see more about your wife's gardening projects, whether it's the veggie garden, flower beds, or processing the produce after harvesting 🤩
Thanks 😊 I'm trying to get Marianne to bring along a camera when she works with the vegetables so we could include that in our videos😄
We farmed in New Zealand, sheep and cattle. So different! Well done it looks like very hard work with all that snow and moss!
I can't wait to see the walls going up on that barn I know you will have to wait till spring in your country I do love it there so much
Messaging from USA ,Beaver Dam ,Wisconsin
Awesome project ! Love the channel !!!!❤❤❤
Can't wait for more ! I hope really soon .
Love that your saving that old barn !
All old things should be saved and Restored in my humble opinion 😊😊
Blessings and may all the senient beings on this planet have the best year possible plus many more🎉🙏🇨🇦💕
WOW! You have accomplished SO VERY MUCH! What a wonderful homestead now, and best of good luck!!!
Truly outstanding hard work!
Your family has been very busy on the land this year and the results are impressive! Happy holidays and a productive 2025.
Excellent video and I take my hat off to you for your hard work and determination
Awesome loving parents and hardworking people..great video I wish you and your family a happy healthy and prosperous 2025!!😊
I feel exhausted just watching this video! Here's strength to your elbow and courage to your hearting 2025! I shall be watching. X
Takk!
Takker👍😄
That barn rebuild is awesome. Your video is very soothing to watch, especially watching you do all that endless labor while I vicariously watch from Nebraska.
Hello Eric, it was so nice watching the year's progress again and I think that I might have to look back and watch some of the first videos again because I might have missed some footage. I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and I wish you a Very Happy New Year. I love watching your content, and I love listening to your narration, looking forward to seeing your barn going to the next stage. Take care and enjoy your holidays.❤️
it's good to see you're more gentle to the lamb, then your buddy :D
Great project, wishing you all the best for 2025!! Lets go
All the best for the New Year. Hope you and your family have a great 2025. Best wishes from the UK.
Happy New Year, Eric!
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣. 🎉🎉🎉
having watched "Clarksons Farm" and when I saw you had gotten a ram and that it was expensive and all that... I thought immediately "unless it dies" which it did, sorry for your loss, but keep at it, trememdous work, and thanks for helping take care of the cultural landscape and so on:)
Just discovered your channel today. Loved the overview of the year and utmost respect for you to do all this next to your day-job and a family with small kids. Will definitely follow you for the upcoming year! All the best and greetings from The Netherlands!
Amazing Job.
The number and variety of skills shown is really impressive.
Happy New Year from Ireland, just found your channel and I love it!
Thanks!
Thanks for your support😄 Happy new year🎉🎊
You have an impressive work ethic!
I shed a lil tear for that cast iron bathtub. They make fantastic bins for worm composting.
Thats more of a bog than a field. Thank goodness the neighbor was able to get you out .
Very hardworking man!!
not sure if you want to hear this .. but i learned from an old farmer in Queensland Australia to gather up what we call "chook poop' and to put it in a 44 gallon drum with water and let it 'steep' for about three months (it is high in nitrogen). The other tip was to get all your fish bits (guts and so forth) prawn heads, and you put it in water and let that stew as well. need to have a lid on it because it stinks but the gardens and vege patches do love it. in fact over here they have created a product called 'seasol 'which is basiclly just the seacreature broth. probably has oyster shells in it as well (ground down). I haven't checked.
It's honestly a good idea. Here in Denmark where I live, the farmers often just order massive amounts of calcium and distribute it on their fields to get new calcium in the ground. The nitrogen and other stuff is usually obtained from the massive concrete manure tanks the farms also usually have, which also have a lid on for the exact same reason you describe.. Also because the gases are lethal to breathe in.
My dad did the same with sheep poop in a 44 gallon drum. Best vegetable crop in years! Best raspberries and strawberries too.
Be carful with some of that stuff if it’s to hot do to not being broken down enough it can burn your plants and kill your crops. I grew up on a farm we raised animals and grew crops and waisted nothing . Let’s just say I never made these mistakes because I watched my grandpa and my father make these mistakes. Just be sure you do your home work there is nothing like all the plants you work hard to bring to life die in front of you. I live in the US and hate the way things are today I wish I could go back to the days of you get what you put in.
Enjoying this so much. Lots of well thought out work bringing rewards to your family. And those Northern Lights !! WOW. from Raewyn, Australia x
@@chadcoffman1870 that's the point of leaving it to soak in water and drums for a few months because then you use the liquid for your plants as you say its high nitrogen content which is why your plants would have been burned.
You are doing an amazing job, it is a pleasure to watch your journey
Keep up the great work. This was my first video looking at a huge project like this. Really interesting to see the ups and downs
Ha et godt nyttår!Og takk for flotte filmer!
Takk for det og et riktig godt nytt år til deg og dine også 🎉👍😊
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year🎄
happiness, health, success🙋♀️
Great accomplishments made in 2024, looking forward to seeing what you get accomplished in 2025, Happy New Year!!!
I honour you!! All that hard work and what a lovely way of life for you and your children. It so interesting to watch. I look forward to watch your next episode.
I grew up on farms but by 10 years old I knew I didn’t want to be a farmer. Too much work! Instead I stayed poor working three jobs at a time for years to get my kids though school. However I really enjoyed watching your challenges and successes. I just subscribed
Have been watching you all year. I am very impressed about the twinweel mounting. Never thouhgt that would hold. Have a good new year.
😂I will admit that I had to tighten one of the side some😊
It's beautiful. Big job well done, Thank you for sharing.
Dette var skikkelig artig å se, og vilt imponerende alt det arbeidet dere har lagt inn i denne gården!
bless your heart, bless your soul and bless your family. i am not the person to put myself what you have in this past year !!! may god bless you and may you be able to afford a much better and bigger stronger tractor !!!
I just discovered this channel and I find it super entertaining, subscribed 😉
Green: The most common color, produced by oxygen molecules at altitudes of 100 to 300 km
Red: Produced by oxygen atoms at altitudes of 300 to 400 km
Pink and dark red: Produced by nitrogen molecules at altitudes of around 100 km
Blue and purple: Produced by hydrogen and helium molecules, but can be difficult to see against the night sky
Scarlet red: Produced by high altitude oxygen interacting with solar particles, only occurs when the aurora is very energetic
You were very lucky to see them all! Amazing.
Greeting from Northern California USA. Just joined up and I'm looking forward to see how your farm turns out! God Bless
Wow you have done so much work by yourself. You need a couple helper boys.
Thanks for the great pics of the Northern Lights
Happy New Year from Ireland, looking forward to enjoying your diy / farming adventures and indeed your commentary with many understatements throughout 2025. Keep up the same good work, it’s the simplicity of the successes and failures that really resonates with us descendants of the hunter gatherers and primitive farmers.
Cant wait to see the barn transformation . Im a big fan of timber frame structures and have plans of my own to build a sawmill structure so I can mill logs from under a roof. This was suppose to have been started last year but I tore a tendon in my knee that keep me from doing heavy work like moving logs to the sawmill. Good luck in 2025
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys 💗 good work 👍😁 happy new year 🕛
So much work and the progress is wonderful!
Greetings from Germany. Brilliant video. I enjoyed watching and was impressed with your focus and motivation. Might I offer a wee suggestion? Your hay cutting. Build some field drying racks. As the hay is cut, place it on the racks to speed the drying. Even if it rains, they hay is not left on the ground to rot. I will continue to watch and well done on the barn approval!
May you and family have a lovely New Year
So much of your struggle was easy to relate to. I grew up on a farm in Vermont, USA. Keep going!
Keep Going Guys. Good to watch your progress. Happy new year.
Thanks, you too!🎉😊
@@Norwegianfarmlife Hey what happened to cute puppy dog from year ago? got sick or? dont see it in video now!