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Scan Magazine | Special Theme | A Taste of Norway
By Julie Lindén | Photos: Haust Hardanger
“You can hardly find a better place to grow fruit than where we are,” says Turid Alice Skjervheim, owner of Haust Hardanger, and noticeable enthusiast when it comes to everything sweet, neat and nutritious. Haust’s dried fruit products are, therefore, completely free from added sugar and preservatives, and provide a healthy alternative to sweet snacks. “Our dried apple slices are very popular – customers are known to eat a whole bag all at once!” muses Turid Alice, adding that the long fruit-growing season (added to by the subsequent time spent drying the fruit) in Hardanger allows for
a large range of different apple types and thereby a multitude of tastes. After harvesting the apples, which are also accompanied by plums and pears in her own drying facilities, Turid Alice’s products are neatly wrapped and sold as everything from healthy everyday snack options to party gifts. Haust is also known to use dried fruit in various pastries and sweet treats, make chutneys as well as brew special teas from the farm’s fruits, the latter of which is said to help prevent colds and flus. “The sky is the limit,” Turid Alice explains when asked how she comes up with new
For more information, please visit: www.haust-hardanger.no
Golden taste from the sunny side Heightened in taste by sunny days, sifted light and mild temperatures, the ripe apples of Dyre Gård are as delicious as they are beautiful. Pressed, however, they are nothing short of irresistible. In a carafe at your dinner party or from a bag-in-box at the breakfast table, the different kinds of Dyre Gård’s apple juice suit every occasion. The accompanying snacks? An additional treat! By Julie Lindén | Photos: Dyre Gård
Situated in Rygge municipality in eastern Norway, Dyre Gård is the best known moraine area in Norway. The favourable soil combined with a west-facing location at the Oslo Fjord’s sunny side makes for a superb ripening process for the apples growing on the farm’s 12,000 trees. The aroma and quality stems from the perfect balance of acidity and sweetness – a taste grown without a single use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides. “The fresh air combined with beneficial conditions for organic fruit cultivation
makes for clean, pure foods that taste of wellbeing,” says Hans Olav Bjerketvedt of Dyre Gård, explaining that while the apples are also sold for consumption, most of them are brought into people’s homes through the various popular kinds of juice and apple snacks. In many ways, picking the right juice can be just as challenging as picking the right wine to go with dinner, especially as Dyre Gård also offers a range of blended apple juices – adding flavour from beets and carrots. “The choice completely depends on what you are pairing the
Dyre Gård’s apples are sold for consumption, although most of them are brought into people’s homes through the various popular kinds of juice and apple snacks.
beverage with. A sweeter juice goes well with dessert, while you may prefer a more acid one for breakfast.” With hopes to take products abroad in the near future, things are looking bright on the Oslo Fjord’s sunny side. With a healthy alternative and tasty bite, you can’t possibly go wrong.
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preservatives, and provide a healthy alternative to sweet snacks.
The apples of Hardanger are known to possess the best balance of sweetness and acidity there is. Imagine, then, the taste of apples growing in Hardanger’s most favourable spot, where the soil’s fertility, the sun’s heat and the fjord’s clean breeze come together in a fruitful harmony. The result can only be remarkable.
products. “The long season, great growing conditions, a drying process I’ve developed myself to match the fruit and its palette of flavours – and absolutely no additives. It’s all Haust Hardanger!” Haust’s dried fruit products are completely free from added sugar and
Fruitful harmonies from Hardanger