A very mild December here and my oldest now 23 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) is very “habby” and has responded well with new shoots […]
Art Exhibition / Films
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Extreme Salad Man in Seattle
….and I don’t have a bad conscience for the air miles this time!This is the food-artist Cathrine Kramer who made the video Extreme Salad Man. It showed literally […]
Spice
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Sansho fruiting for the first time in Malvik
Zanthoxylum is a genus of some 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and climbers in the citrus family, RutaceaeTo my great surprise, I discovered that a […]
Study Tour
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A visit to a sansho farm in Japan
As I’ve acknowledged in various other posts from my spring 2016 study tour to Japan I am forever grateful to Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark for organising […]
Birds
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Hoodie on apple
A hooded crow (kråke) in the garden on one of the last apples still hanging in the tree with deep snow now covering fallen apples. Post Views: 232
Birds
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A doomed chiffchaff
I was surprised a couple of days ago on 16th November to see a chiffchaff (gransanger) flitting about feeding in an apple tree in the garden. I saw […]
Trees
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Siberian ginseng finally flowers
I’ve been growing Siberian Ginseng / Russisk Rot (Eleutherococcus senticosus) since I was given a cutting in May 2010. Although flower buds appear each autumn, flowers have never […]
Music / Onions
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Onions and Norwegian Folk Music
I enjoyed myself last Tuesday evening talking about onions with Marianne Meløy and Amund Storløkken Åse, surrounded by some amazing art at Atelier Ilsvika, in an eclectic acoustic […]
Foraging
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Ramsløkvettreglene – Ramsons common sense rules
The last time I led a foraging trip with ramsons (ramsløk), Allium ursinum, as the main focus was in 2014 on the island Hvaler in south eastern Norway […]
Annuals / Trials
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Chinese Lettuce
Over the last couple of years I’ve been trialling celtuce in the community garden (also known as stem or asparagus lettuce / stilksalat). I’ve decided that this is […]
Climbers / Pollinators
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Clematis serratifolia
Young shoots of Korean clematis (Clematis serratifolia) are reportedly occasionally eaten cooked in the Far East, akin to the commonly eaten shoots of old man’s beard / tysk […]
Plant offer
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Høsttilbud til KVANN medlemmer; Allium og Flerårige grønnsaker
TILBUDET ER AVSLUTTET!Tradisjon tro er det tilbud på flerårige løkplanter fra Løkhagen Chicago i Ringve Botaniske Hagen som sendes i posten over hele landet tidlig i oktober (standard […]
Fruit / Nut trees
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Nuts and Figs in Asker
I’d followed KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) member Per Hofsli on social media for some time for his interest in nut trees and I’d learned that he was even […]
Interview / Podcast
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Nut pod interview at Åfallet
In the middle of July I was at the Åfallet Food Forest Festival in Sweden to give a talk about perennial vegetables (more about that in a separate […]
Arctic Gardening / Publication
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GARDEN in the Arctic Encyclopaedia
My latest book has been published on Monday (with 199 co-authors 😉 ). This is the 300 page Arctic Encyclopaedia and the good news is that it can […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Late June Ryotto
On 30th June 2025, I made ryotto with various perennial vegetables available in the garden. The ryotto is stir-fried veg mixed with wholegrain organic rye with chili and […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Green catch of the day!
Today’s veg! Names below the pictures (mostly top shoots and scapes).Plants:Heracleum flower shoots (cow parsley / bjørnekjeks)Urtica dioica (stinging nettle / brennesle)Cryptotaenia japonica “Atropurpurea” (purple mitsuba)Allium fistulosum (Welsh […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Seasonal leafy greens
For a quick Mediterranean diet inspired scrambled egg, aka scrambled greens, these were the diversity of perennial greens I could quickly forage in my garden in about 5 […]
Fjord views
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Edimental Apples
1st June 2025: The view is beautified this week by the amazing floriferousness of my two Aroma apple trees. Every year I say I’ve never seen so many […]
Community Garden
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The World Garden Pot-luck Salad
On Sunday 25th May 2025 we celebrated spring at the Væres Venners Community garden in Trondheim with a pot-luck party (kurvfest) and although the wind was strong there […]
Food / Fungi
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St. George’s Mushrooms and Sand Leek
Two gourmet ingredients (and many more) for tonight’s green pasta sauce are just doing their own thing in my edible garden with little interference from me, apart from […]
Videos
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Recent Videos on my Youtube Channel
Please subscribe to my youtube channel!1. Perennial Edge https://youtu.be/qRsQt_U0Ujo The edges of my annual beds in the garden are not so productive as they are drier because of […]
Food
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A 70 permaveggie Fus-Cheese!
To celebrate that the life-timer clicked over from 69 to 70 yesterday, the Barstow household’s tradition of making an equi-age permaveggie diversity MacCheese for dinner was followed once […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Scrambled greens
It started off as scrambled eggs but ended as scrambled “perennial” greens: The ingredients:Allium ursinum (ramsons /ramsløk)Allium sativum (garlic /hvitløk); shoots and bulbsHeracleum sp. (hogweed / bjørnekjeks); 2 […]