The Ramsdalen Farm

You will find the Ramsdalen Farm in Svartbäcken near the Tyresta National Park. Back in 1880 a farmer who worked at the big Vendelsö Farm bought the property known as Ramsdalens Gård. Back then there were a few buildings at the farm, and his family moved in to one of them. The building still stands today but the roof have collapsed. Sometime around 1910 the family lived in a new house across the road. A few decades after that a third house was built next to the second house, and that's where the current owner (from the same family),lives today. Sadly the rest of the farm has been abandoned since the 1970s, when the original farmers daughter Rut Hultström retired. She died in 1980s. In recent years the roof of the old barn have also collapsed. The last two winters have been tough on many old buildings but the 100-year old laundry barn still stands. I took a bike ride to the farm a while back. There are two lakes in the valley. Ramsjön and Svartsjön.From the tiny beach at lake Ramsjön you can take a short-cut through the forest to get to the gravel road that leads up to the farm, and that is what I did. The farm is situated on the top of the valley, so it is a steep climb. I noticed the owner out in the garden, so I said hello and we started to talk. I think he once was a famous wrestler, but we only talked about the farm. He has never been into farming, which is one reason for not saving the buildings. That will of course cost a lot of time and money. You can see some older photos from Ramsdalen here.