For two days this weekend, landowners and farmers will learn how to build a traditional farmhouse with trellis, that is, where you tie bumps and snakes with pines, unlike using steel wire or nails.
- It is a cultural-historical craft and there have been so many farms in Värmland in different variants, but now the knowledge about them is on the way away, so this is for both the landscape image and the craft, explains Maria Sundqvist.
The county administrative board has arranged the course earlier, the last of which was held in 2015. The weekend's ten-place course, at Finngården Rikkenberget, north of Torsby, was quickly booked and the county administrative board decided to arrange the course on two more occasions during the autumn.
- We had to add one to the course in two weeks, and then we have another at Träfotere in October, says Elena Jonsson, administrator at the County Administrative Board Värmland.
- It has been a very big response, so we have reserve lists and plan to keep the course next year too, Elena Jonsson continues.
Those who signed up for the total of 30 places are between 25 and 71 years. Nearly half, 14 people, are under 40.
What is the reason for the great interest?
- Partly it was a few years since we had a course and some have gone well and expected, but then it has also been highlighted in different media and we see an interest in old-fashioned techniques and methods, says Maria Sundqvist.
The course is EU-funded from the rural program and is free to participants.