It lingers in the lingonberry rice on an old hut a few kilometers north of Högboda. Among stumps and rice, yellow vests glow and talk and laughter echo among the strings when the Bodaskolan students look for lingonberries. One of them is the preschool student Hedvig Svenberg-Uttersten.

- You have to look for the lingonberry, she answers the question if it is difficult to find the red little berries.

What do you think of picking lingonberry then?

- It's fun when you get to make the lingonberry jam later, she says.

"Do something for the school"

Julia Ljunggren is sitting on a hill in the cozy who goes into sex. It's her seventh lingonberry picker day.

- It's fun to do something for the school. We pick the lingonberry and we who go in six boil the lingonberry jam that we have for blood pudding and stuff, so we do something for the school, she says.

But despite the commitment, there is no lingonberry in her bucket.

- So far I haven't picked any lingonberries.

What have you done then?

- Sit and fuck, she giggles before carrying on lingon hunting.

Lingon in teaching

On the same hill are the school's teachers who keep a watchful eye on the children. One of them is Christer Karlsson and he is happy to explain the ambition of lingonberry picker day.

- Firstly, we will have a common experience that the whole school shares, and secondly it is a tradition that we have had for about 30 years. Then we use it in teaching. Grade six boils lingonberry jam that we have in school eating and we use lingonberry in teaching to measure and weigh.

The children pick some, but what do you contribute then?

- I will also pick a little so hopefully we will gain a few kilos, says Christer Karlsson and look out over the cozy where Hedvig Svenberg-Uttersten is bent over the lingonberry rice.

How much do you think you will pick today?

- Almost 100 pieces, I think, says Hedvig Svenberg-Uttersten.