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Fosen Folkehøgskole

Organic Farming

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Do you dream of having your own farm, growing your own food, and raising livestock? This course will teach you the foundations of sustainable small-scale agriculture.

Here you'll learn to grow vegetables, grains, and berries, as well as raising farm animals, slaughtering them, and preparing the meat. To prepare vegetables, milk, and meat to feed those around you, and to work with a tractor and chainsaw. You can learn all this and more.

Our school's organic farm is Debio certified, meaning it is accredited as organic under some of the strcitest standards in Europe. The farm provides the school with food throughout the year. On the farm you'll find pigs, hens, cows, and ducks. We harvest potatoes, cabbage, kolrabi, sundry herbs, wheat, barley, rye, and hay. The animals have space to live and play, and when it comes time to slaughter them it is done with the greatest respect and as much as possible of the animal is used.

On Organic Farming you'll be there for the entire journey from seed to harvest and preparation, from sowing to weeding, to putting it in the store for sale, or to helping the kitchen staff get it ready to be served to the rest of the students. Maintaining a compost pile is a natural part of the process, as well as spreading manure on the fields.

We grow organic because it is the future of agriculture. Join us in the Green Movement.

Classes are held in Norwegian. International students are welcome to apply, but are expected to learn Norwegian. The teacher is fluent in english and will translate as necessary in the beginning.

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To ganger i året drar hele skolen på felles tur. Hver høst og vår seiler vi ut til øya der vi har sauene våre. Fellesturene er vanligvis 5 dager.

Høstutfart

Mandatory: Yes

Price: Included in course price

Meals included per day: 3

På høsten, i september/oktober seiler vi avsted til Utsetøya, øst for Hitra, i selvbygde åpne trebåter. Her er det nordlys og stjernklart, og morild i sjøen til nattbading. Øya har store fine gressletter til lek og moro, om kvelden bål og sang. Det er ørn i lufta og masse spennede fisk i havet.

Alle på skolen er med. Vi samler villsauene våre, undersøker de og frakter noen hjem til slakting. 

På turen lærer du å seile råseilbåt, å kle deg godt, om villsau, kystlandskap og livet i fjæra,. Vi fisker, spiser blåskjell og krabber.

Turen varer i 5 dager.

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Vinterutfart

Mandatory: Yes

Price: Included in course price

Meals included per day: 3

Sammen drar vi på fjellet for å stå på ski. Vi leier ei hytte i nærområdet. 

Er du en erfaren skigåer eller har ikke hatt ski på beina siden du var 6 år, her er det utfordringer til alle. Vi lærer å bygge og bo i snøen, hvordan finne frem med kart og kompass, hvorfor gikk det et snøskred her. Vi går på skiturer, isfisker, bygger iglo og snøhule, lærer om dyrespor, skileik og kortspill! Opplevelsene og mulighetene er uendelige!

Turen varer i 5 dager.

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Vårutfart

Mandatory: Yes

Price: Included in course price

Meals included per day: 3

Om våren drar vi igjen til Utsetøya ved Hitra for å samle villsauene våre. Nå er det kommet mange små lam. Det er varmt i lufta og grønt på trærne. Villsauen er en spesiell rase, blant annet klipper vi ikke ulla, men napper den. Så det gjør vi nå, samt at vi merker de nye lammene. Ulla tar vi med hjem, slik at du kan lage noe av den.

Så er det tid til å bade i lange lyse sommernetter, sove under open himmel, seile mer, fiske og leke. Kanskje kommer spekkhoggeren opp langs med båten på hjemturen.

Dette er avslutningsturen vi har på skolen, så alle er med.

Turen varer i 5 dager.

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Fosen Folk School is internationally recoginized as a Craft school. Here you will learn to make things from scratch, usually with material found in nature and old techniques. The boat building class will fell the very trees they'll use to build thier boats. And those on the Handwork line will spin and knit with yarn from the school's sheep, and can color that yarn with moss and heather.

We like to call ourselves a self-reliancy school. In a time when so much of that around us is made by someone else we want to teach you to be independant and self-reliant, without giving in to consumerism. We believe that everyone who can should grown more of their own food, fish more, and consume and throw away less. Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.

Self-reliance runs through both our courses, and our electives. In Mini-house building you will learn to build an enviormentally friendly, energy efficient house. In Farming you will learn to grow your own food, and raise animals, on a small scale. In Self-reliance you will learn to repair clothes and equipment, grow your own food, and make all sorts of different things. In this way you can consume less, while living in either the town or the country.

Our school has it's own organic farm with animals and vegetables. A majority of the meat and vegetables we eat comes from our farm, giving us a unique relationship to the food we eat and the ingredients we use. We try to serve organic and locally produced food as much as possible.

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