She grew up among the wealthy on the outskirts of New York, now she lives without electricity on an isolated mountain farm in Norway where she has carved out a new life by going back to basics. Jenny Endresen makes her own clothes and her own food and her goal is to live off the land whilst taking care of the traditional farming and preservation skills so many modern people have left behind.
City boy Knut Kastnes realized his dream of becoming a farmer when he bought the isolated small holding Sæterstad. He moved in to a house that desperately needed modernization and advertised for a milk maid. Siri Kobberød from Trondheim came - and stayed. Together they have created an innovative business and a new lifestyle.
Colourful Danish artist Kirsten Lundsgaardvig lives in a house in the forest by a disused railway. She loves nothing more than painting in her birthday suit and wellies during hot summer months and she shares her house with the ghost of 13 railway-men.
Severin Rønes (25) says he is just like most other young men, despite settling on a small farm with no road access by a fjord on the west coast of Norway. He is busy clearing the fields, re-building the quay and hunting for game and fish.
