The Farm
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You can spot them everywhere, big and small farms with white farmhouses and red barns. Norway is a nation built by people who harvested the resources they had locally. In many ways it is farmers and fishermen that have laid the foundations of the cultural landscape that you see on this journey. Traditionally, as a rule a farm would consist of a farmhouse and at least one or more outbuildings in the form of barns, stables or storehouses. In 1950 there were over 200 000 working farms in Norway, most of them very small. Today that number is drastically reduced and now there are only a little over 38 000 left in use although, the Farms of today are considerably bigger. Are you wondering why all the barns are red? It came about from the fact that in the olden days red paint was the cheapest and so the farmers saved themselves money by painting their larger outbuildings red. The proud farmers saved the more expensive white paint for their houses, and what was once a money saving habit has today become a tradition.