Almost exactly 5 years ago this week I was on a study tour to Japan to look at Sansai production. I’m doing a webinar talk about the trip […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Birds
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Woken by Troglodytes troglodytes
Even though it was only 5 am, I was happy to be woken this morning by a wren (gjerdesmett) singing in the garden. Good to hear that at […]
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Birds
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Shelducks return
Nice to see a pair of shelduck (gravand) back in the bay this morning, the first time I’ve seen them in the bay since spring 2015. Before that […]
Birds / weather
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Hoodies struggle against the wind
With a polar low (polarlavtrykk) on its way, hooded crows (kråker) struggled on their way in to the roost this evening against the wind: Post Views: 118
Birds
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Largest flock of goldies!
A flock of 41 goldfinches landed in a tree in front of where I am sitting writing this this afternoon. This is the largest flock I’ve recorded here […]
Birds / Spring
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Suddenly it’s spring
With the huge shift in temperature this week, spring is suddenly here and several bird species are now singing in the garden: blue tit (blåmeis), great tit (kjøttmeis), […]
Berries
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Lemon Berberis
Norwegian: for en norsk oversettelse av denne artikkelen (Norwegian translation), se KVANNs (Norwegian Seed Savers) Nyhetsbrev #15 There’s always been a barberry (Berberis vulgaris) in my garden, in […]
Onions / Winter vegetables
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Still green after the freeze
Since New Year, only one day had been slightly above zero with temperatures regularly below -15C, but then a big shift in the weather happened a few days […]
Trees
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Norway spruce in my garden
This is a long post to document the importance of Norway spruce, gran in norwegian (Picea abies) in my garden. All pictures shown are taken in the garden.Milder […]
Birds
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Redpolls on nettle
As I’ve written before on this blog, nettles (Urtica spp.) are important food plants for birds, both due to insects and their larvae feeding on them in summer […]
Birds
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Marsh Tit pair
There was a pair of marsh tit (løvmeis) in the garden one day this week and they showed some interest in a nest box. Hoping for first time […]
Birds
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Magpie song
I heard a magpie “singing” this morning outside the front door. It has been desribed as a low-pitched, slightly chirping giggle and is in my experience most often […]
Food
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Winter stir-fry
People are always asking me for recipes. I rarely follow recipes as my ingredients vary so much and I just use what I have available. However, I do […]
Birds
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Helping Yellowhammers
The yellowhammer (gulspurv) has been showing a worrying decline in Europe (some 40%) and almost 20% in 10 years here in Norway where it is a breeding bird […]
Dandelions / Macrogreens / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers
MACROGREENSI harvested dandelion roots in November and stored them in the cellar until mid-January when we moved it into the living room and the first leaves were harvested […]
Birds
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Regulus regulus in the garden
Nice to know that I can still hear the very high pitched call of the goldcrest (fuglekonge) aka Regulus regulus. That’s what alerted me to their presence in […]
Birds
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Mallard in the Bay
The biggest flock of mallard (stokkand) this winter were in the bay this morning, about 180 birds. A single slavonian grebe (horndykker) was also diving further out and […]
Foraging
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Top 5 Foraging Guide
Although I don’t consider myself primarily a forager, I do often forage my garden if that counts…I was still chuffed to be included in this top 5 foraging […]
Butterflies and moths
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Moths in The Edible Garden
NB! The album and information at the bottom will be added to over timeWhen I was a student in Edinburgh in the late 70s, I started in earnest […]
Birds
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New species seen from the house
Most days recently there’s been a resting flock of about 120 mallard (stokkand) below the house. Today, I noticed one that was signficantly smaller: a teal (krikkand)…a new […]
Fjord views / weather
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Sea Smoke
Sea smoke has formed over the fjord in the current cold spell. Locally, thanks to the warming affect of the fjord it didn’t go much below -15C in […]
Fjord views
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Xmas views the other way
We had a xmas day walk to the other side of the bay. Here are a few views of the house the other way from what I normally […]
Rodents
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Yellow-necked mouse?
It’s not often one sees mice foraging in the middle of the day. This one has been tentatively ID’d as a yellow-necked mouse (stor skogmus) (Apodemus flavicollis) by […]