In 2019, I hosted a chaperone for the 4-H Exchange Program that was visiting the U.S. with youth 4-H members from Norway. Recently I seized an opportunity to visit her and her family on their own turf, near Nordfjordeid, Norway.
While there, I learned agriculture in that part of Norway consists primarily of dairy, sheep, apples and some raspberries.
Passing through a few farms on our way to see a waterfall in the mountains, I paused to snap a photo of this handsome farm gate, hard at work keeping sheep in their mountain pasture.
Note the grass growing on the roof of the building in the background. I learned that’s a common practice in Norway — a kind of natural (and very necessary) insulation just shy of the Arctic Circle, where the average annual temperature isn’t quite 40 degrees Fahrenheit!
Alexandria Schunk is MFB’s Saginaw Valley regional manager, serving members in Bay, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland and Saginaw counties.
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