Category: community

Imagine a landscape where plants, animals, and people can all thrive. In an abundant food forest where the man made structures are made from the local resources from the site and visually blend into the landscape. Where people can live more harmoniously alongside the natural world that provides for us, and we provide for it. A created place of abundance, where set up systems enhance the diversity, biodynamics, and fertility of the environment and create a place that will thrive for generations.

This is Dugnad Farm’s dream.

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A Norweigan tradition, in preparation for the next season, a dugnad takes place. The community gathers to tidy, clean, and fix a space so that it will continue providing an optimal situation for the community as a whole. In preparation for the next epoch in history we suggest a dugnad. The spirit of will to work together is the mind set that will carry us forward. By combining the labor and ideas of many, we can produce something that will support the lives of many. The systems are made possible because of the combined efforts of many people’s desire to make them work; to create a landscape that will continue to grow and provide for us even after we have stopped working the land. Setting up for an increasing yield while decreasing work, we design a landscape and the plant community to be the volunteers in this ongoing dugnad that will support our natural community of people, animals, and plants.

Applying the help of the community, to support the health of the community in the long-term is the backbone of our project. The main aspects include designing a landscape that collects and stores water, increasing plant diversity, introducing animals into the landscape, managing a woodlot, and reviving traditional building techniques. The focus of the project is to build an abundant and resilient local community while inspiring new generations to connect with nature, the land, and their hands. This site is a place to explore these ideas and projects. What is a better way to spend community time than to create something that will last for many generations?