ABOUT Bondfrun
My husband and I have a farm in Varaslätta (GP Farm) where we grow grain, potatoes & have pigs.
Our piglets are raised at Stommen Long outside Vara, which we own together with the Wiberg family.
We put our pigs and employees first.
The sows (about 650) are free-range between farrowings and are given plenty of straw to live in before farrowing.
When the pigs weigh around 30 kg, they are transported to us, a distance of about 10 km to Tråvad.
Here they are supervised and fed daily. We have about 3,000 places.
Our pigs of course still have their grumbles and when one gets sick, they receive treatment, because every pig's life is important to us.
When it's time for slaughter, it takes place at the Skövde slaughterhouse, a journey of about 60 kilometers.
We get help from our retailer (Helmut Walch) with cutting, packaging, sausage making & they also make the delicious bacon. So it's extra fun to now be able to offer our pork locally.
This means we can offer more details, such as sausages, stew pieces, ribs, liver pate, minced pork, etc.
Of course, we follow Swedish animal husbandry laws, which are one of the strictest in the world. Our activities are sometimes highlighted in, among others, the magazine "Gris" (a publication distributed in the pig industry) and we strive to be at the forefront of the best interests of the animals, in collaboration with the veterinarian and various advisors.
Field beans and almost all the grain we grow goes into feed for the pigs, and the purchase of other parts of the feed mixture is done with proximity and environmental friendliness in mind. For example, we buy drank, which is a waste product from biofuel production.
There is also a Facebook group you are welcome to join "Bondfruns Griskött".
Of course, all our products are made with only our meat! Some sausages also contain beef and veal, this is also of course Swedish meat from farms in the local area.
We run our farm Conventionally.
CORNMAZE!
For the first time in 2023, we have created a large corn maze of 6 hectares (equivalent to 12 football fields).
We have been able to accomplish this with the help of Gunnars Maskiner and Green Deer.
The idea came to Bondfrun when she was talking to her good friend Laura, who had lived in the United States for several years.
There it is more common to go to farms to walk in corn mazes, shop on the farm, etc.
"How hard can it be to make a corn maze?" thought the Farmer's Wife, and persuaded the farmer (which was the most difficult part of the whole corn maze).
The farmer's wife sketched out a maze on paper and with the help of another good friend, Karin, we got the maze into her computer.
From there, several different file formats were sent to the guys at Gunnars Maskiner & Green Deer who in turn got the map onto the GPS!
A Tempo seed drill was needed, because each worker has a "swath" of corn that can be controlled by the GPS. This equipment came all the way from the Skövde area and was driven by Calle Sten.
Åkerholmens Lantbruk row-cut, sowed grass and fertilized at the same time in the corn maze.
It's feed corn for the neighbor's cows.
This year too we have planted a corn maze
(with a completely new pattern so you shouldn't think you can cheat and go faster if you memorized last year's maze)
Please read more about this under the heading Corn Maze.
Warmly Welcome
Marie-Louise & Daniel Stensson
Environment & Sustainability
Here on the farm we work a lot with sustainability and taking advantage of all products and waste products. For example, the pig is a very environmentally friendly animal that eats a lot of the waste products we get when we produce food for us humans, such as feed milk and dregs. Everything we grow on our land goes into food for the animals. We work with the earth, nature and animals every day and this is at the center of our entire business. If we don't have a sustainable mindset, the farm won't work. Everything is connected from when we sow in the spring until we can sell Christmas ham in our farm shop.
CORNMAZE
In the CornMaze 2025, we had 13,000 visitors here on the farm during the 8 weeks that the maze was open.
Visitors could go on a walk, look for letters, find pictures of animals in mailboxes, look for treasure, bingo, etc. I put a lot of energy into ensuring that the questions teach visitors something about our job as farmers. They also had the opportunity to look at the machines here on the farm and try them out, which was very much appreciated. When the fodder corn (which the Corn Labyrinth consists of) was ripe, we harvested the Corn Labyrinth so it became food for the neighbor's cows. I think this is extra fun that we can use it for such a fun activity for all ages and then it becomes food for the neighbor's cows. Truly a sustainable activity that is reused.
So next year you can sow a new Corn Maze and visitors can find their way again.
