• Ritamäki rökstuga.
    Ritamäki rökstuga.
    Photo: Lars Furuholm
  • Det öppna odlingslandskapet är hem åt många olika arter.
    Det öppna odlingslandskapet är hem åt många olika arter.
    Photo: Länsstyrelsen Värmland

Ritamäki, Naturreservat

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Description

Ritamäki is one of Sweden's best-preserved finch farms and the last finch farm in Sweden to be cultivated and used in the traditional way. Annual haymaking preserves the meadow flora with, among other things, field gentian and hay flower.
The land around Ritamäki was farmed according to old traditional methods as late as 1964 when the siblings Beda and Henning Jansson moved to the nursing home in Torsby. The buildings are owned by Lekvattnets hembygdsförening Link to another website.

The reserve was established to preserve the old agricultural landscape and its cultural and natural values. The area is part of the EU's ecological network of protected areas, Natura 2000, and the EU's Life-Nature fund has part-financed the restoration of this Natura 2000 site.

Animals and plants

Biodiversity is high. The plants found within the reserve are largely typical "haymaking plants". By haymaking plants is meant that the plants are dependent on the land being mown annually after flowering. These include field gentian, hay meadow, hay flower, hay rattle, snakeweed and sedge.

Before your visit

In summer, the farm is shown to visitors by Lekvattnet's local history society, which also serves coffee.

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Activities And Facilities

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Facts

Established: 1993, revised 2010

Size: 18 hectares

Landowners: State, Private

Manager: County Administrative Board of Värmland

Directions

Location: Värmland county, Torsby municipality, about 10 kilometers southwest of Lekvattnet church. Ritamäki is only a few kilometers from the Norwegian border. In Lekvattnet there are signs to Ritamäki. Follow the signs for about 10 kilometers to the parking lot by Lake Lomsen. From the parking lot, there is about 1.5 kilometers of marked path up to Ritamäki. The path is relatively steep and rocky. The road is closed during the thaw.

Regulations

Within the nature reserve, it is forbidden to:

  • drive a motorized vehicle
  • camping,
  • make fires,
  • damage or remove dead wood such as lying or standing dry trees or dry branches,
  • picking or digging up herbs, mosses, lichens or tree fungi
  • bring an unleashed dog,
  • without the permission of the county administrative board to use the area in an organized way for commercial purposes, and for schools and institutions to regularly use the area to carry out scientific or other studies.

The farm is a listed building and the protection includes all buildings on the farm.

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Maila Länsstyrelsen Värmland

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