Global Field Tretten

A new Global Field is to be built on the Norwegian farm “Skarsmoen gård” in 2026. Preparations are already underway!

Dag and Karoline are sitting on a hay cart pulled by a horse.
Dag and Karoline driving in hay (©Dag Kolstø)
Dag and Karoline are scything in a large meadow. A forest can be seen in the background.
It is being singed (©Dag Kolstø)

So far, Dag and Karoline have been running parts of the farm to provide for themselves and their family and sell vegetable boxes. The healthy and living soil is clearly at the forefront of everything in order to be able to run a resilient farm. Karoline has undergone further training at Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soilfoodweb School and uses her own compost to add suitable microbial life to the soil.

A man shovels a shovelful of soil into a wire compost.
Compost production (©Dag Kolstø)
A woman crouches by the lettuce field and harvests young, fresh lettuce.
Lettuce harvest (©Dag Kolstø)
A woman with a hat works in a field and sows with a hand seed drill.
Sowing (©Dag Kolstø)

Dag and Karoline are planning an ideal Norwegian Global Field, based on the Planetary Health Diet. All crops are to be grown here as far as possible, from peas to rye and hazelnuts. Although Norway is a large country, it only has 3.5% agricultural land. Per capita, this means an area of around 1.5 decares, or 1500 m². Norway has a self-sufficiency rate of just 40%-50%, one of the lowest in the world, and relies mainly on imports for its food. Karoline and Dag want to show with their Weltacker that enough food can be grown on 1.5 decares to live healthily.