In the footsteps of the writer Åsta Holth
Åsta Holth was a well-known Norwegian author who wrote several novels about her people, the Forest Finns who immigrated to Finnskogen. Experience Leiråker and Finnskoghagen, a comprehensive further development of the garden at Åsta Holth's small farm.Through the Norwegian Forest Finnish Museum you can experience Finnetunet at Svullrya, Gruetunet Museum at Kirkenær, Orala at Austmarka, Austmarka Bygdetun in Austmarka, Tyskberget Finnegard in Åsnes-Finnskog and Faldaasen school in Åsnes Finnskog.
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Leiråker was Åsta Holth's small farm, where she had cows, pigs and chickens, and grew vegetables for sale. Leiråker was also the setting for her work as a writer.
The buildings at Leiråker stand as in Åsta's time, with farmhouses that she built on twice, storehouses, barns with added combined pig and chicken coops, bowl, outdoor toilet and playhouse.
Finnskoghagen at Leiråker is an extensive further development of the garden on Åsta Holth's small farm. The basis for further development is a generous gift of several hundred ornamental and useful crops from a private garden, which over a 3-year period was moved to Leiråker. The garden was officially opened during finnskogdagene in July 2019.
Åsta Holth was educated as a horticulturist from Vea horticultural school. At the small farm Leiråker, Åsta therefore started growing vegetables right from the start, and the vegetable production contributed to her financial income over a number of years.
When Finnetunet took over Leiråker as a bequest from Åsta Holth, there were still some ornamental plants in the garden that testified to Åsta's interest in flowers and plants.
