Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Future turn-out stable


This very old barn, approximately early 17 century, is gonna be our turn out stable. It actually belonged to another farm before "Laga skifte". Laga skifte is a law from 1827, where it was decided that small farms were moved out from the village to get a piece of land that was put together instead of having small acreages here and there. Farming would become more efficient then. To do so it was common to move whole farm buildings out of the village. Our farm stayed in the village though but the neighbour farm was removed farther away and left her little barn behind which is on our property now. You can see the removed farm from our land and in our pasture you still can find some remaining after it.  We found an old map from 1635 and you can see both farms on it. We are gonna start with the renovating of the stable this autumn/winter. The plan is to have two boxes, one tack room and the turnout stable in there. It's big enough for two horse and eventually one pony for the little one. We have 3 ha pasture right now but are gonna get a little bit more land with it from the old owner.

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