Bokeslundsgården

Sweden’s most endangered breedThe Svensk pälskanin is almost gone despite being a recognized breed for almost a 100 year and part of the Swedish governments responsible to protect. It’s number off breeding stock is less then a hundred probably fewer than fifty.When we first learned about the dire conditions for…

How do you build your own greenhouse?We have a few different greenhouse but today we are going to look closer on the newest ones we have the rebar mat house. It all starts with how tall you want you greenhouse to be, I’m 194 cm so I like it tall…

The true old fashioned Swedish white LeghornImported to Sweden 1885 possible earlier, by 1910 it was the dominant breed of chickens in Sweden and the breed that permanently put a stop to the lack of eggs in Sweden putting a halt to imported eggs making the nation more self sustaining.…

Flower sprout in snowOne of the newer types of cabbage that we grow is this cross between kale and brusselsprouts. It takes for ever to grow out but just when you are about too give up on it then it shines. Most stuff is resting in the garden under the…

This is how it’s doneIf u are a really good sheep mom, two lambs out and a third followed short behind. The mom is licking the lambs to clean them from the amniotic fluid and sack after birth, most wild animals do this to the reason we can only speculate…

Snöstorm kring Bokeslundsgården men våren är snart här och vi har äntligen kommit igång med våra CSA (= Community Supported Agriculture ) lådor, du får chansen att bli en del av vår gård och stödja det arbetet vi gör för att värna gamla kultursorter som inte producerar lika mycket men…

Baby time in the barn with twin lambs of our endangered Klövsjö sheep. This year the lambing started early so these lambs that are small now are going to be really big by springBut for now they have their hands full just finding where mom has the milk baby twins…

Tid att ta ställningVilken typ av jordbruk skall vi ha i Sverige? Sverige har ett av världens bästa jordbruk med en stark lagstiftning för djur, skog och åkermark. Vi levererar förstklassiga och klimatsmarta livsmedel men tyvärr finns det fortfarande några skamfläckar på samvetet. Det är nu hög tid att Sverige…

Remember our enormous Gladiolus this summer well this is how they look now, twice twice the size that were when we planted them in the spring.So as they flowers with 1-4 flowers per planted bulb they also double in size and a lot of them also split in to two…

The historic breed of Isbar Blå/Blue have a diversity in its egg color with a range of mossy green to almost turquoise and I especially like the speckled eggs that look more wild than tame. During the spring and summer we help new conservation flocks to start by offering breeding…