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About Tyfta and the Lekander family

La famiglia. Family is important.

On the farm, Mats and Gerda live in one house, and Jonas and Anso with their children Olle, Måns and Petter in another. And Siri the dog and Doris the car of course. During summer, you’ll probably meet many more family members.

Siblings, cousins and aunts often bring their families here. There’s room for many. Why not bring your family here one weekend? In a family, it’s often good to have a door to close around you sometimes, but a large dining table with room for everyone nearby.

Anno 1652

We have spent a bit of time pondering what date to put down as the beginning of the farm.

As an old family farm, it has, like many small farms on Tjörn, housed many different activities through the years as society, and thereby conditions, change. My parents started the bed & breakfast and my father’s grandmother started the strawberry farm. When you think about it, that family is the most important part, providing the conditions for today’s activities.
According to our family record, which was given to my grandfather when he turned 70 in 1982, the first person from our family to be born on Tyfta Östergård was born in 1652. So, we run with that…

Just like ”Anna”, I hope the family always remains on Tjörn, a wonderful place to live.

Anso Lekander

One foot in history

It may sound like a cliché but it’s true. History is important, maybe especially so when you live and work in the same place as one’s ancestors. In the soil, on the farm, in every thing, one is reminded of what was and that people have existed in the same place, working with similar things every day.

I enjoy decorating the accommodation rooms with things from our family and from the area. What a treasure when I inherited 20 woven rugs from our neighbour who lived in her entire 93 years in the house where she was born.

My grandfather’s mum started growing strawberries. In the 1950s, the family was one of the Bohuslän region’s largest growers of dill. Where did all the dill go? To the herring industry, probably. It is still an important industry today. We have also grown corn, sugar peas, melons and much more, but strawberries and potatoes are the most important crops. How lucky, that everyone wants Swedish strawberries for midsummer! It’s the best thing we know, our family eats unbelievable amounts of strawberries each day of the season. It is so short ad one must make the most of it!

One foot in the future

The planet is getting smaller and smaller and it’s no longer strange when our visitors come from Tasmania and Hawaii. Travelling can impact the earth’s resources unnecessarily, but we want to be climate savvy. Locally produced, re-purposed products and local experiences are important. We bake our bread, make jam and cordial, and pick mushrooms and berries in our forest. Local herring is a great breakfast option!

You can hire bikes and kayaks, or borrow a map and directions to walk across one of the islands that make up the municipality of Tjörn. Walk up to our campsite by the lake and enjoy a barbecue tonight. Take an early morning hike to Örnberget and meet moose and deer. Small and local things bring some great experiences.