18/09/2026
Buying your vegetables at the place you spend the night? 🥕🥬
If you’re Norwegian, you might already know this. If you attended the Food Festival in Trondheim before as well. Frosta is Trøndelag’s vegetable garden, producing everything from carrots and potatoes to onions and cabbage.
Frosta, located just over an hour north of Trondheim, has a rich history, filled with Vikings, pilgrims, ruins, and agriculture - along with «Frostatinget», one of Norway’s most important pieces of cultural history, which serves as a medieval court of law for the northern and central parts of the country. 🏛
Ready to visit something truly unique? Valberg Slektsgård, a local farm and pilgrims' accommodation, has built a house on their farm, named «Grønnsaksbua».
Here, you can buy your vegetables - only a little distance from where they came out of the ground. «Local food»? How about «Very, very local food»! 🥔
And, ‘Grønnsaksbua’ is open day round, so if you are looking for some vegetables on a day when other shops are closed, when it’s late at night, or whenever it fits you best: you can buy them at any time of the day.
So, next time you are enjoying a meal at a restaurant in Norway: stop and wonder whether the vegetables you’re eating are from Frosta as well! 😉
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📸: Ellen Homstad / Explore Trøndelag
