Amenities
The house
Hanusarstova is the name of our house. Originally built in 1898, this house is the second oldest in the village - with lots of history, soul and "hygge". In 2014 we bought this house after it had been vacant for 10 years. The house went through total renovations, but we tried to do all we could to persevere as much as possible and even painted the house it's original colors again. Today the house is also equipped with an extensional building used as a guesthouse.
We moved back to the village to pursuit our dream to become mostly self susstaineble sheep farmers. Hanusarstova "Heimablídni" is a big part of making that dream come true - since sheep farming on it's own isn't a profitable business per say. At our house we offer:
location
Hanusarstova is located in Æðuvík, a small town with roughly 103 inhabitants located on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands. On our property we have chickens, dogs, sheep and a barn cat. On the farm we also plant our own potatoes, herbs and rhubarb, grow our own hay for the sheep and of course get our own eggs. In the near future we plan on building a studio/apartment in order to be able to host even more events mainly, but also to occasionally host sleeping guest and artist retreats.
Animals
Although we are mainly sheep farmer, we do have other animals on the farm too. Among these are 20ish chickens , 4 Faroese Horses, some ducks, geese, two Border Collies named Scott and Jess, a barn cat called Zoe and then of course the 65 sheep. Our animals are mostly free range, except for the dogs they are part of our household and prefer sleeping on the couch.
Produce
We always aim to use as much Faroese produce as possible, this includes all we can get from our own farm of course but also trading with friends, family and neighbours.