Vetti Farm has a long history. The name «vetti» is believed to mean something like «fairy tale field», and the connection to a fairy tale landscape is understandable when you witness the contrast of the hay field, the noise of the waterfall and the proximity to the wilderness.

From the early days, the whole of the Utladalen valley was outlying fields belonging to the farm of Vetti. Early sources tell us that people did fieldwork and grain cultivation here in the 1120s. Like many other farms on the outskirts, Vetti lay deserted as a result of the Black Death plague. Sources mention the desertion of Vetti farm in 1601. From 1603, sources mention a man named Eirik as a cultivator of the farm. The current Vetti family line probably arrived at the farm in 1714.

Jørgen Anfinnson, born in 1747, was probably Vetti’s first peasant proprietor. Since then, the family lived on the farm until the 1980s. Up until the 19th century, there was only one farm in Vetti. Lauvhaugen and Flaten were built later, first as small holdings, then later as farms in their own right. Vetti has had cabins and summer farms in both the mountain hamlet of Vettismorki and the valley of Fleskedalen. The latter was previously called Fleskenosdalen. This establishment functioned up until 1953. Vettismorki had cabins and summer farms up until 1968. On the hill was a fenced hayfield cut and reaped until the end of the 1950s.

You can find more information on the history of the Utladalen valley and Vetti Farm in Hans h. Thyri’s book Utladalen og fjella omkring.