Lasse Nordlund

Born in Helsinki to a Finnish father and a German mother,[1] Nordlund spent a typical youth in Germany and was interested in studying physics.

The background to Nordlund's experiment is his conviction that only subsistence living is materially sustainable on a long-term basis.

In his self-sufficient economy, Nordlund consumes 200 kg of mushrooms per year and about the same in berries preserved without additives or sugar.

He forsook livestock because he projected the maintenance (for example, animal feed) to be too time-consuming to make sense.

In 2008, Palladium books published a work written by Lasse Nordlund and Maria Dorff "The Foundations of Our Life, Reflections about Human labour, Money and Energy from Self-sufficiency Standpoint".