The Goats' Garden

The Goats' Garden Permaculture site with organic gardens. We strive to live as lightly on the earth as possible and to share our home with others.

The Goats' Garden is a small permaculture-based landholding in a 1920’s farmhouse in southeast Norway, where we keep goats and gardens organically. Our aim is to develop the land and soil along permaculture principles, offer an organic abundance to those who visit us, and make our space available for deep ecology, permaculture, and transition events. For overnight guests, we have organic towels a

nd bath products, ecologically friendly bedding and we use all ecological cleaning products. Our goal is for all of our food to be as lightly traveled as possible, from right at home or local sources. We bake organic bread from local wheat milled in the valley. We are working on developing the site for wellness weekends and other deep ecology and permaculture-based seminars.

Back after six days in Northumbria UK (where Kath was keynote speaker at GroundEd 2026 regenerative education conference...
24/06/2026

Back after six days in Northumbria UK (where Kath was keynote speaker at GroundEd 2026 regenerative education conference) to discover deer had munched the red beet greens. High hopes that our new garden guard will deter further incursions.

The first California poppy of the season. A little bit of home, once upon a time, and very faraway.
12/06/2026

The first California poppy of the season. A little bit of home, once upon a time, and very faraway.

Just got home after three-day trip to Bergen - to this! Spring has definitely sprung!
02/05/2026

Just got home after three-day trip to Bergen - to this! Spring has definitely sprung!

Nearly mid-April. Light at 5 am and not dark until after 9 pm now. There was a light frost yesterday morning but they ar...
11/04/2026

Nearly mid-April. Light at 5 am and not dark until after 9 pm now. There was a light frost yesterday morning but they are an anomaly now. High temps averaging around 10. Been mostly dry lately with intermittent days of light to moderate rain. We'll likely get our first 20 degree day within a few weeks.

These pics taken on April 2, so no April Fool's joke! God Påske!
03/04/2026

These pics taken on April 2, so no April Fool's joke! God Påske!

The snow is finally gone and our attention turns to this year's gardens. Producing as much of our own food as possible n...
18/03/2026

The snow is finally gone and our attention turns to this year's gardens. Producing as much of our own food as possible now seems imperative. Thanks to this lovely filly in Våle for her manure that helps make our gardens grow!

Have had weeks of sub-freezing temps. Great cross-country skiing conditions. Maybe even better than OL in Milano. Sun se...
18/02/2026

Have had weeks of sub-freezing temps. Great cross-country skiing conditions. Maybe even better than OL in Milano. Sun sets past 17.00 now - and we're gaining three minutes of daylight daily.

25/01/2026

Something peaceful to look at during these disturbingly unpeaceful times...

It has been very cold here since early January. Down to -16 a couple of nights, and little precipitation. A few days ago...
14/01/2026

It has been very cold here since early January. Down to -16 a couple of nights, and little precipitation. A few days ago, it finally snowed enough to go cross-country skiing, and last night, we got about a half meter of snow - that was perfect to ski on today. The sun emerged in the afternoon, and a beautiful magical light switched on. Unfortunately it is short-lived. Above freezing temperatures and rain sweep across southeast Norway tomorrow afternoon.

God Jul/Merry Christmas! It snowed a little yesterday, much to the delight of our visiting British grandkids.
24/12/2025

God Jul/Merry Christmas! It snowed a little yesterday, much to the delight of our visiting British grandkids.

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Stenbjørnrødveien 5
Skoppum
3185

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