Välkommen till Rosenhills Trädgård

About a century ago Emilias grandfather founded the garden and planted the first apple trees. Since then the place, like al the farms around, played a role supplying our capital Stockholm with vegetables, fruit and berries. In the beginning the products were carried by steamboats but from about 1925 it was possible to use the roads. In 1978 Emilias parents opened a small juice factory to take care of fallen apples that could not be sold in the market. Since there is a good tradition around to plant apple trees in the garden when you build a house, it was soon found by other “apple owners” who wanted to make juice from their harvest. Thirsty people came from all around to get the golden drink.

When we, by the end of the last century, chose to take care of this place, we decided to turn the gardening into organic. We also found that it was a good idea to concentrate on letting people come here to get good fruit and vegetables, rather then sending these products to the market in town. To draw more people to us we started a café and began to sell other things. We also found that the garden, due to its relaxed atmosphere, was a very nice meeting place. It was therefore a natural thing to give parties and arrange other gatherings here. One important tradition is to hold a party every Saturday from midsummer until the end of august. The live music played during these, vary from jazz to ethnic to rock´n roll and are usually very nice.

If you choose to have a WWOOF period with us, we want you to stay at least 2 weeks, during which you will probably deal with some of the following:
- gardening: planting, weeding, pruning, harvesting ...
- in the café: baking, making food, washing up, making jam and other delicacies ...
- carpentry and machinery : there are always things to fix ...
- in the juice factory: making “liquid gold”...
- with the animals: feed and look after...
-and a variety of other projects

When days are busy we usually take lunch from the café and at different times. Dinner is on the other hand more often held together as a small feast. We have a small cinema facility for those who like films and there is mostly music played in the main building. If weather is to hot we usually go to the clean watered lake Mälaren (600 meters from here) to cool down a little. The only drugs allowed here are those that could be bought legally in Sweden.

Finally maybe you want to know something about the more permanent crew here.
Emilia (inspiration) who is born here , Lars (fixer) her husband, our lovely kids: Erik 22 (adventure), Evelin 20 (friendship) and SagaFreja 11 years old (strongwill). Gunilla who has a business here selling hammocks and related equipment: www.storafamnen.nu and Mr.O. the philosopher, our mental mentor.