Stureholm Manor and garden is a relatively young Farming unit on clay soil in the north western part of Skåne, a province in Southern Sweden. Since the middle of the 19th century the landscape has been actively cultivated and has been transformed from oak forrest into Farmingland of high efficiency. The industrial era during the 19th and 20th centuries meant new posssibilites for cultivation of these clay soils. With equipment like steam ploughs and the possibility to obtain fertilizers, the harvest increased considerably. This increased prosperity provided estate Stureholm with a beatuiful corps de logi, a manor. The trends prevailing in Europe around the turn of the century 1800-1900 against the growing industrialism, was turned into a artisan movement known as Arts and Craft. The Swedish followers idealized our Swedish history and they took the turn of a national romantic movement that later turned into neoclassicism.

In the middle of the 19th century came an opposite reaction against the hospitals? treatment of their patients and a more human way was requested. A link between crowded housing, bad hygien and other bad conditions had been noticed and nature was considered to be healthy. Hospitals and sanatiories moved closer to nature due to influences from England, USA and Germany, and cities began building public parks. Employment was seen as calming and healthy for the patients.

Vårt jordklots klimat förändras till det sämre och har blivit allt mer oförutsägbart. Med enormt stor sannolikhet beror det på den utbredda förbränningen av fossila bränslen världen över som vi människor startade explosionsartat i och med industrialismen. Detta fastställer IPCC i sin 5:e klimatrapport. För att mänskligheten ska leva vidare på planeten behöver vi uppnå en hållbar utveckling. Denna utveckling grundar sig först och främst i tre aspekter nämligen ekonomisk, ekologisk och social hållbarhet.