Welcome to Urnatur - and our wood hermitage

The perfect place
for you who need a little inspiration
-
or just need to be for yourself for a while.
If you want to meet up with friends, your partner or family in a special place,
celebrate your 50th birthday or an ecological wedding...


A stay at the wood hermitage is an adventure in itself.


Summertime (July-august)or during the different courses and events (hermit nights, b&b) you can easily book online or send us a mail.

If you want to book the whole hermitage
(we are open april-oktober) please send us a mail!

info@urnatur.se
tel: ++46 (0)733-702687

 

 

 

FAQ´s

A stay in the wood hermitage is a genuine experience. Primitive but comfortable.
The huts and treehouses you stay in are all without any electricity. In total there are
17 comfortable beds spread out on seven huts/treehouses. No bunk beds!
For light you light a candle or kerosene lamp, for heat you light a fire in the wood stove.

When it comes to weddings or other gatherings/meetings daytime we can welcome groups up to max 35 persons indoors and even more outdoors. We can always put up roofs and use our big russian tipi. We gladly help you to arrange with additionally places to stay over at if needed.

Depending on the time of the year, the size of the group, we can serve crayfish or perch from the lake, mutton from the farm and many wild herbs from the surroundings. Urnatur is fully licensed for private parties and you can order from a our collection of wines and beer with your dinner.

Unfortunately no pets are allowed in the huts!

In adults company children can stay for half price in the mosstemple and wolfcot! Children up to 2 years are free. Please remember it is not like a normal hotel- there are open fires, hot stoves, sharp knives and axes... Adults/parents are responsible for their children!

eco? logic!

To do everything as environmentally friendly and green as possible is a matter of course for us!!


Family gatherings

Is your family adrift throughout the world? Maybe you want to reconnect to your history and experience your roots, the country of your Swedish ancestors? Maybe you look for a unique place to meet up with your closest friends...


"as in Astrid Lindgrens heaven..."


Karin Larsson celebrates her 80th birthday together with her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren from overseas. Herself chose the little treehouse for the night...

 
     

 

HERMIT NIGHTS 2012

Now you can book our hermit nights directly online - or
just send us a mail info@urnatur.se...

 


this is included in the hermit nights:
hut of your choice for 1-4 persons with comfortable beds, towels,
woodheated sauna and woodheated bathtube, 3-course dinner in the wood hermitage and breakfast buffé

Arrival

Saturday - at 15.00-16.00 in the shop

Departure Sunday am before 12.00



   

 



 

spring kick off 2012
hermit night: 31.03

Maybe spring has arrived, maybe there still is snow. These days we are going to collect our birch sap for the whole year. Get the chance to have a look
- and taste it right from the tree :)

spring
with early wild primeurs

hermit night: 05.05
hermit night: 12.05

Life starts again. The forest is filled with birds song, the barn is full of our new born black lamb, the meadows and surroundings full of delicious early herbs, weeds and buds.
Take your time, feel how all new life fills you with new energy, inspiration and health.

These Saturdays we gather early wild herbs, leaves, flowers and weeds that are at their best right now. Recharge your batteries with healthy and delicious mainly vegetarian food filled with natural vitamins and minerals. Of course we serve birchsap with the dinner.
End your day with a sauna or a wood fired bath and you will feel like new born as well :)

autumn
hermit night: 05.10

(last chance for this year !)


Days are gettting shorter, Nights are coming earlier.
It is getting colder outside. The woods start to change colour, the nights are pitch-dark ...

But inside in the huts the fire gives both light and warmth. Kerosene lanterns and candles spread a cosy light. We are longing for nourishing meals with mutton, mushrooms, maybe pumpkin and apples...

 


 

 


 

 

URNATURS SUMMER COURSES 2012

MAY  
12-13 May - foraging and cooking with wild herbs, weeds and leaves
   
  (tips: combine it with the hermit night if you want to stay in the hermitage over night)
JULY  
10-12 July - basics in timbering a hut, different techniques
     
17-19 July

-learn how to use a scythe and building a traditional Swedish gärdesgård- fence

     
24-26 July - fire and knife- basics worthwhile knowing
     
   

 

more information and prices can be found in the online booking!
and here


 

 

OUR HUTS & TREEHOUSES

aircastle

2p

(double bed)
   

 

little treehouse

1p
(bed is rather small!)

   

 

hat hut

beds can be parted or put together.
Best choice for tall person

2p

   

 

pilgrims hut

2p

   

 

wolf cot

4p

 

 

charcoalers hut

2p

 

 

mosstemple

4p

 



 

ACTIVITIES




"...everything you are looking for is next to you..."

example of aktivities for free:


     
 

Feel at home. Take a walk and explore the surroundings with its typical cultural pastures and stony land, small hills, lakes and mixed forrests...

 


Take a swim or borrow one of our canoes or boats for a nice little trip on the lake. Take a sauna or sit at the cosy fire and tell stories and memories to late at night.

Besides plenty of smaller nature reserves, nearby places to visit are lake Tåkern (famous for its birds), lake Vättern with its crystal clear cold water, Omberg and the old small cities Gränna and Vadstena.


 

 

   
 
   
beach  
     


top your visit at the hermitage with a genuine activity:
Mainly for groups who book the entire hermitage.

mail us for price
info@urnatur.se

   

 

kokkaffe  

coffee over the open fire
Swedish outdoor living is unimaginable without a cup of coffee. Together we make up a fire with matches and boil coffee over an open fire. We arrange some good snacks and in good company you enjoy a cup of real traditional Swedish coffee.

The activity is short but gives a much needed break with the opportunity for good conversation.

Duration 1 hour

     
 

make a fire, make coffee and bake bark bread
Together you light a fire with the bow drill - without any matches. Difficult but with good cooperation and a little pig-headedness you will succeed. Over the fire we put on some coffee and bake bark bread.

The activity provides frustrating laughter but also a great reward when the fire finally is burning in the end.

Duration 2 hours

   

 

 

take a bath in a wood-fired hot tub

End the day by jumping into a steaming hot wood fired tub. Look at the stars and listen to the wind, the silence, birds or friends' latest gossip;)

The hot tub is located in the forest at the bathhouse, sauna and showers. You can sit about six people in the hot tub at the time, possibly more as some prefer the sauna, sometimes you have to sit on the terrace and the steam off a little ...


     
 

pick and prepare your own herbspa

Together we pick wild herbs. The season may determine what happens. Based on what we find, we will produce such as Herbal salt to the foot bath, facial toner, body scrub, facial seals.
Then you have the opportunity to try your new products
- And in a hui we have transformed the bathhouse into a fragrant forestspa.

     
 

Indianbastu
Together we are building an ingeniously simple sauna right at the lake. We start with a big fire in which we heat the stones. When the stones are red hot, they are placed in the middle of the sauna, water is poured onto them and a lovely warm vapor spreads in the sauna. In the sauna you can take a cold beer and a refreshing swim in the lake afterwards.

Duration 3 hours

     
 

preparing a dinner over an open fire
Together, we prepare an exciting lunch or dinner over the open fire. The menu depends on the season and always contains wild herbs from the surroundings.

... stewed herbs, soups, wild salads, exciting herbal beverages, bark bread and birch sap ... Cooking together is among the most natural things to do. But how often do we do it?

Duration 4 hours

     
 

basic 'male' skills

Nobody can tell me that it is not genetic that men are so very fascinated by knives, tools, axes and fire ...

Learn the basics of chopping wood, sharpen and handling the ax and knife, the basics of making fire (without cheating)...
Important stuff - in a survival situation,
in an earthy life and / or if you want to impress when you are out in the woods next time you are picking mushrooms or blueberries ...

Also girls are of course very welcome!

Time required depends on your ambition:
2hours - several days.