2025 at Bygdø Royal Manor

We have 50 cows of the Norwegian Red Cattle breed and year-round calving. They produce 400 000 liters of organic meat and 8 tons of meat a year. In winter, the animals are inside and we take good care of them and feed with self-produced organic grass. There is hoof cutting, cutting tail hair and fur, and focusing on good health. The ponies are outside every day and the ewes are sheared a month before lambing. The hens are laying eggs, the pigs are enjoying themselves in their pen and maybe the rabbit has had young. Possible to grill in a fire pit with brought charcoal etc.

Welcome to the willow weaving workshop with Gartneriet at Bygdø Kongsgård! Here you will learn the basics of willow weaving and make your first willow wicker basket!

NB: Fully booked

Interested in grape plants? Do you want to learn about care and pruning? Are you planning to plant grape seedlings in your garden or greenhouse at home? This course is for you. Welcome to a course in winter pruning of grapes!

NB: Fully booked

Are you interested in learning more about fermentation? In this course, you will get an introduction to basic techniques and theory that will enable you to succeed with fermentation in your own kitchen.

The large kitchen garden course is perfect for those who are curious about organic cultivation and who want to learn more about organic kitchen gardens. Through a growing season at Gartneriet Bygdø Kongsgård, we will guide you through the planning, design and implementation of an organic kitchen garden.

Would you like to make your own apple tree? On this course, you will learn how to do this, with good guidance and a lot of practice. Join a swab course with Olav Arnar Bø!

Learn the basic skills you need to look at trees and berry bushes and find a good pruning that gives shrubs and trees the desired shape and new vitality.

A warm welcome, dear rose lover, to an introductory course in the care and pruning of roses.

Our ewes of the Old Norse Spælsau breed lamb around Easter time. It's touching and wonderful when the beautiful lambs are born and everything starts over! When the soil is warm enough, we put potatoes and make sure to roll on where we grow it so that there are at least 5 years between each time we have potatoes on the same piece. We prepare for mowing and grazing season.

The small kitchen garden course is a practical-oriented course where we go through the basic principles of an ecologically run kitchen garden. Experienced gardeners take the course participants through the growing season in the summer months at Gartneriet Bygdø Kongsgård.

Gartneriet teamer opp med Bybi og inviterer deg til å bli med å feire susende bier og en spirende hage. Salg av kortreiste produkter og  ponnileiing for barna.

Cows and young animals that do not milk can be transported to pastures further away from the farm. The sheep graze and we follow up that everyone has enough food, is healthy and that no one gets out of the fence. The ponies are also released to summer pasture, when all the animals are outside, the washing of all livestock rooms begins. We drive out the valuable manure so that the plants get good nutrition.

The second Sunday in May is our traditional Cow Release, then there is joy and party and the cows start to be outside for the summer season.

Join us in celebrating swooping bees and a thriving garden!

Throughout the summer, we salvage 2 – 3 haystacks of grass so we have enough self-produced food for our livestock. The manure is driven out, and the fields we graze on are plastered with pasture plaster so that we get rid of the weeds the animals do not want. The potatoes are picked up and taken home or used by the gold-labelled organic kitchen at Gartneriet. We have various useful plants that visitors recognize and can taste. We also use the co-cultivation principle and have flowers in between the vegetables to save them from insect attacks.

Fruit trees are pruned for different seasons, and in this course, you will learn about the benefit of summer pruning, with a special focus on stone fruit trees. Welcome to the summer pruning course!

Learn how to make your unique flower bouquet on organic flowers!

Join us on a self-picking tour in the kitchen garden and find organic, untraveled food treasures! Pony rental for the kids.

There is light from the barn and stables in the dark season and inside the animals it is warm and nice. We have selected the ewes and cows that are good enough to breed on and put these in for the winter.
The Christmas beak is up to the small birds. One can lower one's shoulders and look forward to a quieter moment with stories about the magical Christmas season and the barn elf.

Welcome to this year's cozy Christmas market at Gartneriet! Here there will be a lot of exciting things to taste from Bygdø Kongsgård and the apiary's products, and we provide information about activities at the Nursery in the future.

Kongeskogen and DronningbergetIn collaboration with the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, we have developed nature and cultural maps, and offer tours throughout the year. We look for animal tracks and learn about tree species and what the forest gives us. Bonfires in season. For more information, check out the Visitor farm.

• The Visitor Farm