Grøntsagsboden - engelsk
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Intro
For centuries, the islanders have been farmers and smallholders. The young men often went away to sea as sailors for a number of years only to return and settle down as farmers. Only very few of them became fishermen.
For centuries, the islanders have been farmers and smallholders. The young men often went away to sea as sailors for a number of years only to return and settle down as farmers. Only very few of them became fishermen.
After the closure of the dairy on Tunø in 1964 and the slaughterhouse in Odder in 1987, there was very little livestock farming left, and the character of this former island farming community changed completely. With the dairy gone, the farmers took up pig farming. Concurrently with the slaughterhouses in Odder and Samsø closing, many farms ceased to operate as such. The remaining farmers changed over to market gardening.
There was a large production of leeks on Tunø. In the hey-day of leek production, two million leeks were produced annually – corresponding to 25 % of the market in Jutland.
Now there’s only one market gardener left. Besides leeks, he grows carrots, cabbages, onions, and potatoes. A large part of his produce is sold from the vegetable stall here by the harbour, but some of it is ‘exported’ to the mainland and sold there.
The major part of Tunø is no longer farmland, but consists of wooded area, disused fields and ungrazed common land.