Our philosophy

We believe that living in harmony with nature doesn’t require becoming fanatic, restrictive or removed from society. Nor should it be expensive and inaccessible for most.

This project started around 2014 and has slowly grown ever since on a road paved with lots of trials, successes and failures. You can trust us, it would be too long to write down all the ups and downs we’ve been through. The important thing is : we never gave up and we tried to learn something every bit of the way.

So here we are, with the pieces of knowledge and experience we’ve gathered. I suppose we have become a little like weeds, resilient and stubborn, determined to make it through. You’d be surprised how much wisdom one can learn from them.

Just remember we’re still learning ourselves...

At a human scale

Valabærjet is our way to live in interaction with nature, by being small scale, inclusive and respectful, trying our best. We take inspiration from permaculture books and farms, use as little noisy and oil drinking machines as possible, preferring old manual tools to new expensive ones.

Since we live in a colder northern climate than most permaculture farms, it carries its loads of experimenting with different flora and seasons. We hope we can therefore be a beacon of help or hope to our fellow northerners interested in a different way of gardening/small scale farming.

In harmony with nature

All life has its intrinsic value and can not survive without love and understanding of the connection and dependence of interaction with other life.

In today’s society, we should focus away from endless growth as we consume more than we need, and more than the earth can take. We have to retrieve old wisdom and knowledge on how to live without being predators we have become.

The ongoing growth in financial wealth and quick profit are consuming more and more of ours and our co-creatures’ natural habitat. Animals, insects, fish, birds, as well as trees, bushes and plants are getting less and less area, at the same time as pollution and poisoning decrease their potential for a healthy evolution and the continuation of all species.

By disturbing nature and its natural way of existence, we damage and destroy the very soil we live and depend on.

Climate change

Ancestral knowledge is precious. Through this project, we commit to save it, explore it, nourish it, and bring it to life again. We need to think long term and for the future of all living things.

The seasons have changed. Those we used to get rainy days are going through years of drought, and vice versa. We feel safe in our houses but we can't deny that the winters are getting unpredictable and the summers burn or drown more every year.

This climate change that we’re all experiencing right now isn’t the end of the road. This philosophy could be a way to make it through. After all, our weeds adapted remarkably well to it, why shouldn't we too, by changing our ways of looking at it?

Sharing is caring

I was once told that sharing is caring. This is what this website is about. It’s not a bragging place to harvest likes and popularity, but rather a way to care both for nature and for you, reading us right now, who might be wondering or simply curious. We hope that by doing our best, no matter how small it is, you can get something good out of it.

As much as we would love you to share with us your insight and wisdom.