Bracing Ourselves for Winter

How Do We Brace Our Homestead for a Danish Winter?

Last winter was our first winter in our small, Danish homestead. It was also the coldest winter in 20 years with several days reaching temperatures of minus 10 degrees.

Our homestead covered in snow in last years winter.

I remember, Herluf would take in bucket after bucket of firewood, and the masonry oven would burn all day. Still it was cold, so cold, …