Big farms

 

Some of the farms at the Open Air Museum in Brede are huge, and it must have been quite an undertaking to get them to the museum and rebuilding them. And then they've had to get the right surroundings too.

 

Big farms

Some of the farms moved to Brede Open-air Museum are huge, complete with stables, furnished living rooms, outhouses and barns. Surrounded with fields you get a good indication of how the countryside of Denmark looked in the good old days before the agriculture got industrialized.

This is not a stork

In Denmark the stork has been all but extinct for many years with only the occasional pair breeding here. But the image of the stork's nests on the roof of the farm, is still firmly rooted in the Danes traditional views of how a real farmhouse should look. At Egeskov Castle they obviously want to keep with the tradition, so without a real live stork, this one of plastic nests on one of the buildings.

Dancing cows

Last Sunday I went with friends to a special occasion; the first day on grass for a stable full of cows. These so-called eco-cows (might be shortened to e-cows:-)) enjoyed to be on grass after a winter in a stable. But they might have thought this a bit overwhelming as 10.000 people (I kid you not!) was there to see them dance in their field. I must admit that I too was a bit surprised at this turn-out, but it was fun anyway. You can see more of the photos from this day on http://picasaweb.google.dk/christopher.leth/DancingCowsAndOtherDelights#