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the Swedish regulations. Meanwhile Anders studied agroecology at SLU in Alnarp.
Eventually in 2020, the Crop Code (73 Nut farming) which applies to hazels and walnuts passed.
At the time Anders worked as a teacher at a primary school and the lease had just been renewed
for five more years.
Anders is the first person in Sweden to request
“self-entry” (2025) with the nut crop code. In
order to succeed, he has hired a lawyer to represent him at the Tenancy Board (arrendenämnden).
The case is still ongoing.
The main crop when expanding the tree cover out
into the open fields will be seed sown walnuts,
interplanted with a diversity of fast-growing nurse
trees, such as alder and poplar, that eventually
will be thinned out. A mission that will continue
for the rest of his life, Anders notes.
While waiting for the nut systems to produce a
significant harvest (the present harvest is mainly
used for seeding and for his own household),
hunting opportunities offered by the system, hens,
fruits and berries contribute to self-sufficiency to a
smaller extent.
“There is always a beautiful
poem to contemplate or something
thought-provoking to ponder about
with Anders. Departing from Frans
Vera’s Forest and Pasture Hypothesis
(the Vera Hypothesis and the Mega-
herbivore Theory), postulating that
open and semi-open pastures and
forest pastures were the dominant
type of landscape in post-glacial
temperate Europe, - Anders and I
one day of the road-trip landed in the
conclusion that Western society, to
feed a population required to wage
wars, favored grass and bacteria
before mycorrhiza, leading to monocrop grains. But eventually gluten
outsmarted our civilization; now
we’re addicted and in the hands of
the industrial economy. We concluded
that sweet chestnuts are gluten-free,
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The sweet chestnut is an energy-dense food, due
to its high carbohydrate content. In Italy it has
traditionally been prepared as bread, pasta and in
stews, and was recommended before hard physical
work.
and a perfect crop for emancipation!”
- Maja Lindström Kling
