Ridgedale Farm
A Swedish mixed farm where production, business planning and teaching share the same landscape.
Botanical illustration—not a photograph of this project.
Ridgedale Farm is near Västra Ämtervik in Värmland, Sweden. Its operator describes a mix of pasture-based livestock, no-dig market gardening, agroforestry and education associated with Richard Perkins. The farm’s overview explains that mixture.
The idea to borrow
Plan for people and work as deliberately as for crops. This is a working mixed farm, not simply a seven-layer forest garden. Its educational focus on design and farm enterprises makes it useful context for thinking about labour, infrastructure and what a crop is actually for.
Read the business story in context
The operator promotes commercially viable farming. This profile does not independently audit its accounts or establish that copying its system will make a different farm profitable. Local markets, capital, land access, skill and time can change the result enormously.
Before visiting
The farm explicitly asks people not to arrive unannounced. Check advertised open days and current arrangements before travel. Its directions and visitor policy also confirm the location.
For a home gardener, the transferable question is modest: how much time and infrastructure does my plan actually need? No farm-business empire required.