It’s been a good year for blackberries. I picked the last ones on Saturday. There are many unripe as usual, but it’s too late now for them to […]
Fjord views / Snow
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Ever-changing view
The ever-changing view, friday was windy and this morning’s surprise whiteness…the first of the autumn, No panci at getting up the carrots, parsnip and perennials for forcing as […]
Birds
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Greenfinch on burdock
I’ve grown burdock on the balcony this year, the favourite wild winter food of goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (grønnfink). I can then watch them feeding from my desk […]
Spice
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Golpar ready to use
Cleaned this year’s golpar harvest, my favourite spice…used in a range of dishes, see here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=golpar Real golpar is the ground seed of Heracleum persicum (Tromsøpalme), an important […]
Berries / Birds / Fruit
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The return of the waxwings
Most of the thrushes were gone today, replaced by a flock of about 120 waxwings (sidensvans), picking up from where the thrushes left off! The first two videos […]
Birds / Nut trees
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Nutcracker juggling with a nut
I didn’t see what happened here until I replayed the video. A Siberian nutcracker (nøttekråke) at the top of a spruce tree must have had a hazel nut […]
Drying / Fungi
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October Chantarelles
This week, somewhere in Trøndelag, we stumbled on a large number of chantarelles (kantarell). The aim of the trip was to pick winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) for drying. Imagine […]
Berries / Birds / Fruit
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Thrush invasion
Unusually large numbers of thrushes, mainly fieldfare (gråtrost), redwings (rødvingetrost) and a few blackbirds (svarttrost) in the garden at the moment, mainly on the rowans (wild and planted […]
Birds
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Up and down
Feeding eider ducks (ærfugl) in shallow water in the bay this morning. One glance they’re there, the next they’re not. Post Views: 111
Berries / Birds / Trees
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Yew berry year and the vine
There are an enormous number of yew berries on the tree next to the kitchen window this year and this video shows how a vine (probably Vitis coignetiae) […]
Birds
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Eider serpent
Looking even more like a sea monster / serpent this morning! Around 220 Eider duck (ærfugl) were in the bay this morning. I could hear theirfunny calls from […]
Fungi
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The Grooved Bonnet
A new species for the garden is The Grooved Bonnet (Sølvhette) or Mycena polygramma, a bioluminescent fungi important in decomposing organic matter, recycling nutrients and forming humus in the soil, growing in […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Moon-landing
The pilot missed, trying to land on the reflection! :) Post Views: 135
Birds
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The Malvik Eider Monster
The Malvik monster swimming in the bay this morning? No, just the resident flock of eider duck (ærfugl), some 80 birds: Post Views: 206
Beans / Food
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Runner bean pizza
Runner beans (blomsterbønner) are always ripening at the end of september to early october here before the frost stops them. They made a delicious whole grain rye/barley/oat sourdough […]
Fungi
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Trooping Funnel
There’s a giant fairy ring in the garden, perhaps 10m in diameter, formed by a fungi called the trooping funnel (Clitocybe geotropa) or heggetraktsopp in Norwegian. This year […]
Fungi
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The Cloud Funnel
A line of cloud funnels or puddertraktsopp (Clitocybe nebularis) were found this week in the wild part of the garden. Edible if cooked for 10 mins. I haven’t […]
Fungi / walks
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Walk and forage to Tripynten
Friday’s forage (11th October 2019) was combined with a walk to the top of Tripynten (315m). Please let me know if you can ID any of the fungi! […]
Berries / Birds
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Rowans and thrushes
Large flocks of noisy (in the positive sense) thrushes in the garden this morning. A flock of a 100 or so fieldfares (gråtrost) and a few redwings (rødvingetrost), […]
Birds
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Autumn song
Cool autumn weather stimulates several species of bird to sing in autumn, giving a feeling that spring is in the air for us as well! This morning it […]
Butterflies and moths
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The last Admiral on Buddleja
The last Red admiral on the last Buddleja davidii flowers this week :) Post Views: 155
Organic gardening
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Visit from SJH
Unexpected but great visit today from Nat Mead and Audhild Bjune. Many working with organic farming and horticulture in Norway were taught by Nat. He teaches horticulture, plant […]
Nut trees
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Walnut harvest
My first ripe walnut from Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim…the same year as I planted it! I should have removed it to allow the tree to gather strength. […]