Natural table – Edible country Uncomplicated food with ingredients you can find in nature – just around the corner What a surprise to find out about Visit Swedens genius project about the edible country – with menus created by four Swedish Michelin-starred chefs – ready to be used by anyone who wants, and with magic pictures made […]
2019
This little pine cone fire starter is symbolic for 2019 and our future: Don’t give up hope – see the light- but especially: DO something. Make a change! Take care of our nature and nature will take care of us! because: You are nature Here at Urnatur we make a lot of fires. And we […]
Ecotourism Companies Protest against Forest Destruction in Sweden
View of the valuable forest area in Messlingen planned to be felled by Stora Enso. Anåfjället (mountain) in the background. Ecotourism Companies Protest against Forest Destruction in Sweden December 6, 2017 – Stockholm, Sweden: In an open letter, 56 travel, ecotourism and guide companies demand that all remaining high conservation value forests in Sweden must […]
end of this season
Now we are closed for this season – already preparing for the next. You can already book next years nature nights from may-september but we are also planning for some exciting retreat-news for the next year. It has been a fantastic year really, also thanks to all the wonderful and inspiring people we meet here at Urnatur. […]
komorebi: “sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees”
Gabriele Kubo, German florist master, resident in Japan for many years, came to Urnatur during July 2017 as an artist in nature to create a “flower table” in the forest. To arrange flowers directly in nature has long been Gabriele’s dream. The ever-changing lights and shadows of the forest fascinated Gabriele. Therefore – instead of giving […]
“what are you doing in the winter ?”
Often people ask us what we are doing during winter when we are closed. This winter we work a lot with nature conservation. Here are some pictures from where we are right now, working to restore ancient pastures and cultural landscapes with old oak trees. This area, Östergötland, actually is known for these oak woodlands. […]
time to gather birchsap
Now at early spring in the end of march/beginning of april here in Östergötland it is time to gather birchsap. This has been done for centuries and here up in the North it was the first source for sugars, vitamins and minerals after the long winter. You can do this many ways, but the easiest […]
wedding in the aircastle
why not planning for a treetop wedding like Amy & Gustav ?!!
Yoga retreat at Urnatur
wedding in the woods
Photographed by Karin Linden, Lönnbacka Photographers (Lönnbackafotograferna) who captured the mood and the day. Below is a small selection of Karin’s pictures. Many more can be found here on their website. Just like Karin says: “Lönnbacka Photographers (and Urnaturs) philosophy so similar. Mindfulness. Nature. Harmony. Simplicity. Poetry. And forest. It is almost synonymous with Lönnbacka: […]