Our story
A hundred years of quiet, undone by hand.
The Forgotten Farm began the way the best things do — with a place nobody wanted, and two people who saw what it could be again.
Eirik and Marianne bought a farm on the west coast of Norway that had been abandoned for close to a century. Their aim was simple and enormous at once: bring it back to life, raise a family close to nature, and relearn the traditional skills the land once demanded — rebuilding old buildings, keeping animals, growing what they eat.
They've been filming it from the start. What draws people isn't just the woodwork or the tractors pulled from the barn — it's the patience of it. A wall saved rather than torn down. A skill recovered rather than bought. A life measured in seasons.
Opening the farm to guests is the next chapter. Not a hotel — a working farm that keeps a little room for people who want the same quiet it took years to earn back.
You can follow the real restoration on YouTube — the timber, the animals, the seasons, all of it.
Watch @theforgottenfarm on YouTubeHow it went
From ruin to welcome
- 01The find
A farm at Hestad, empty for close to a hundred years. Timber walls still standing, a barn full of forgotten tools, and a valley that opens onto the water.
- 02The work
Saving what could be saved — hand-hewn walls, old joinery, the character of a place built long before machines. Restoration, not replacement.
- 03The life
Animals, a garden, traditional skills relearned season by season. A move toward a self-sufficient home, lived close to the land and the seasons.
- 04The welcome
Opening the farm to a few guests at a time — a loft to stay in, an evening on the lake to share. This site is where you can be part of it.
Come see it for yourself
Stay in the loft, or join an evening on the lake. Either way, you'll leave slower than you arrived.
This is a concept booking site inspired by the real Forgotten Farm restoration. It is not an official channel of the farm, and no bookings or payments are actually processed.