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bore into apples and eat the cores.
The 40 hectare apple and berry orchard, with
twenty different varieties of table apples and cider
apples, are cut by Clara Callenbring in 3 weeks, at
the beginning of the year.
Climate change is resulting in warmer days earlier
in the year, with earlier flowering and fruit setting,
and, at the same time with possible cold, “frost
nights” until May, which put the apple harvest at
risk. To avoid this, ploughing in the tree alleys, to
let in warmer air, burning hay bales, and circulating the air, using a huge gas-powered fan on a
circulating tractor, is a somewhat hectic and demanding job required, but is apparently making a
difference, raising temperatures from minus three
degrees to plus two. The group discussed whether
it would have been appropriate to use apple varieties with later flowering.
GRAZING
Species-rich woodland pastures and natural meadows, once defining the Swedish landscapes, have
diminished significantly in the last century, due to
the decrease in extensive grazing, despite it being
Clara Callenbring in the “Perma orchard”.
essential for animal (and human) health, and
crucial for national biodiversity goals. Huge socioeconomic changes would be required to encourage and enable more mid- and small-scale animal
husbandry with emphasis on landraces, adapted
to survive on natural pastures.
At Stora Juleboda, a number of conventional pigs
for meat and some of the Berkshire heritage
swine breed are kept, and let in where they are
