Me & my husband have a farm in Varaslätta (GP Farm) where we grow grain, potatoes & have pigs.

Our piglets are raised at Stommen Long outside Vara, which we own together with the Wiberg family.

We put our pigs and employees first.

The sows (approx. 650) are free-ranged between farrowings and get a lot of straw to live in before farrowing.

When the pigs weigh around 30 kg, they are transported to us, a distance of about 1 mile to Tråvad.

Here they are supervised and littered daily. We have about 3,000 seats.

Of course, our pigs still have their grunts and when someone gets sick they get treatment, because all pigs are a life that is important to us.

When it is then time for slaughter, it takes place at Skövde slaughterhouse, a journey of about 6 miles.

We get help from our dealer (Helmut Walch) with cutting, packaging, sausage making & they also make the good bacon. So it is extra fun to now be able to offer our pork locally.

This allows us to offer more details, such as sausages, stew pieces, ribs, liver pate, minced pork, etc

Of course, we follow Swedish law on animal husbandry, which is one of the strictest in the world. Our business is sometimes noticed in, among other things, the magazine "Pig" (a publication distributed in the pig industry) and we strive to be at the forefront for the best interests of the animals, in cooperation with the veterinarian and various advisers.

Field beans and almost all of the grain we grow go into feed for the pigs, and the purchase of other parts of the feed mixture is done with local and environmentally friendly considerations in mind. We buy e.g. Beverage that is a residual product in biofuel production.

Also has a Facebook group you are welcome to join "Bondfruns Pork".

Of course, all our products are made with only our meat! Some sausages also contain beef and veal, this is obviously Swedish meat from farms in the surrounding area.

We run our farm Conventionally.

The corn maze!

For the first time in 2023, we have made a large corn maze on 6 hectares (equivalent to 12 football pitches).

We have been able to implement this with the help of Gunnars Maskiner and Green Deer.

Bondfrun got the idea when she was talking to her good friend Laura, who lived in the USA for several years.

There it is more common that you can go to farms and walk in corn mazes, shop on the farm, etc.

"How hard can it be to make a corn maze" thought the Farmer's wife and persuaded the farmer (which was the most difficult part of the whole corn maze).

The farm wife sketched a labyrinth on paper and with the help of another good friend Karin we got the labyrinth into her computer.

From there, several different file formats were sent to pöjka at Gunnars Maskiner & Green Deer, who in turn got the map onto the GPS!

A Tempo seeding machine was needed, because there each seed has a "change" of corn that can be controlled by the GPS, this equipment came from the Skövdetrakten and was driven by Calle Sten.

Åkerholmens Lantbruk chopped rows, sowed hay and fertilized at the same time in the corn maze.

It's fodder corn for the neighbor's cows.

This year too, we have planted a corn maze

(with a completely new pattern so you don't think you can cheat and go faster if you memorized last year's maze)

Please read more about this under the heading Maize Labyrinth.

A very warm welcome

Marie-Louise & Daniel Stensson