Arne Bakke Mælen had a share in the remote small farm Mælen in Jondal in Hardanger. But the slopes were steep, and when he took over, the houses were falling down. Instead of working the land, he turned the yard into an art and culture centre, with a gallery, party room and workshop. He himself is a craftsman who works with wood, and who takes impressive pictures and spins matchless balls.

Yvonne and Ole Jacob Christensen run the small farm Vikabråten in Vestre Slidre, and they run it as it was run in the interwar period. They have no other electricity than what they get from a small solar panel, and they have no other road than a heavy and steep cart road. The horse pulled the plow through the snowdrifts, the iron plow through the potato field and the sled with hay the mile-long road from the mountain hut.