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TWO FARM is one of Nesodden's oldest farms
It was probably separated from Flateby at the end of the Viking Age, and later belonged to St. Mary's Church. The church was one of the greatest landowners of the Middle Ages.
Two farms are mentioned in the "Red bog" at the end of the 1300s. The book was a status of the church
properties at this time. The Black Deaf had left many farms deserted and abandoned, and Bishop
Eystein wanted an overview of the value of the church's properties.
Two farms were also abandoned under the Black Death.


Not until the end of the 16th century was it cleared, and around 1660 the farm was sold to city citizens.
It the first user we know is Sebjørn To,  but he did not own the farm himself. In 1750, the owner sold,
a prosperous county official from Bergen, the farm of those who operated it and lived here.
The most famous owner of Two Farm is probably Peter Herman Røer. He lived on the farm from 1850 to his
died in 1919. It is he who has erected the present main building. On the east side of the wall can
you see that the letters P. H. Røer are carved into the stones. The building was completed in 1876.
P. H. Røer was one important man for the village, sat for many years on the board of governors, and was mayor from 1892 - 1897.


The municipality bought the farm in 1977. The grounds of the municipal council emphasize the area's "very large area value as a recreation area for northern Nesodden ”and the desire to“ protect this natural idyll to the maximum for the future"
The name TO means "grassland between mountains," which fits well when we see how the farm is located
the landscape. The farm was quite large. To the west, it went all the way down to the sea, both Alværn and the Steppes belonged to Two farm. Timber from the forests on TO farm was dragged down to Tømmerbakke for float. It was also cut on mobile cases in the forest, most recently by Andreas Grøstad. Wood was driven to Brenningsmyra, where the nursery at Alværn is today. Here, a drain was built right down to the sea for loading hunts.
The terrain here is so steep that this was the only way to get the wood down to the fjord. Remains of
the chute was visible for many years. Here there were bolts in the mountains for building brakes (downhill) so not the wood at sea.


Toåsen just west of the farm is Neodden's highest point (220m). Next to Gaupefjell was
Toåsen the only places of today's Nesodden that were above the water just after the ice retreated
back about 10,000 years ago. Just below Toåsen there are shell sand from the time the waves hit mountain.
Up here, the farmers brought sand to their chickens. We can also find deposits of shell sand further east, at the Waterfall.
Tomåsan was leased in 1932 by Paul Røer to Nesodden Peat litter for extraction of peat, essentially to
soil improvement along with livestock manure. There were about 40 peat cabins divided into shares of
farms.
East of the farm Two was a small living room called Martestua. Marte worked at Two Farm in the latter half of the 1800s. the number. She was there for many years, and when she got old she and her husband, Gullmoen, were allowed to strike settle down in the small living room. In this way, Two farms had their own little "old home" for their older wrestlers.