I made this salad for lunch today (ingredients below the pictures) Ingredients: 2 varieties Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Turnip (nepe) roots and sproutsCarrot (gulrot)Chicory (sikori) “Rossa di Treviso”Parsley (persille); moved […]
Uncategorized
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Recently scanned family photos on my mum’s 95th!
Wishing my mum a very happy 95th birthday with this album of pictures! Post Views: 169
Book
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10th Bookiversary Offer
(Norwegian offer below)AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS CELEBRATES ITS 10th BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK!19th November 2014: I wrote here on FB “I’m proud to announce that on Wednesday […]
Annuals / Biennial / Salad
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World Garden November Salad
14th November 2024: Although the World Garden I’ve created at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim is mostly perennials, I fill up gaps with some annuals and […]
Onions
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Allium dispersal
Allium dispersal?Well, this week was the week when vegetatively propagated onions from the Allium Garden Chicago in Trondheim were dispersed to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers organisation […]
Pulses
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50 Garden Pea Varieties
Every year I grow 15-20 different garden pea (Lathyrus oleraceus / Pisum sativum) varieties and they’ve now all been dried, I’ve taken seed of those I want to […]
Garden tour
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Edible Gothenburg
On my way back from the Future Heirloom event in Copenhagen, I had a few hours between trains to visit one of my favourite Botanical gardens in Gothenburg, […]
Nut trees
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First Chestnut
I have a 20+ year old sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree in my garden. I didn’t really think it would make it here, so it was planted in […]
Edientomental / Edimentals
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Asteraceae: valuable autumn flowering edientomentals!
When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I […]
Foraging / Fungi
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The Big Fungi Haul
It’s ridiculous but it’s been such a busy summer that I hadn’t found time for foraging mushrooms in the forest this year until last Saturday 12th October. We […]
Tubers
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Traditional Wapato Harvest
Last year a garden helper, Daniil, helped me to harvest the wapato or duck potatoes (Sagittaria latifolia) which originate from the Mississippi River in Wisconsin. I grow them […]
Berries / Fruit
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Autumn berries and fruit
As far as possible, I like to eat fresh fruit and berries from the garden, usually with muesli for breakfast. I’ve been self-sufficient for many years, mostly home […]
Talks
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Future heirloom in Copenhagen
I was chuffed to be asked to be “support act” along with Anders Borgen on the last date of landrace gardener Joseph Lofthouse’s European tour in Copenhagen on […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Around the garden in 40 plants
To celebrate 40 years since I and my then wife Eileen bought Bergstua (literally house on the rock) and the garden that became The Edible (Forest) Garden, I […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Garden tours in Økouka
We’ve opened the garden many times over the last 25 years as part of Økouka (organics week) and before that as part of Økologisk Hagebrukskampanjen (the organic gardening […]
Hagevandring
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Mine Økouka Trøndelag arrangementer 2024
(Note that there will be an extra tour for English speakers on Tuesday)Det blir en travel uke i neste uke for KVANN Trøndelag med hagevandringer i alle mine […]
Salad
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78th Birthday Party Salad
In connection with my daughter Hazel’s birthday yesterday, she wanted me to make a salad for her and her friends she’d invited for dinner, so no birthday cake, […]
Breeding / Hagevandring / Trials
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Nytt fra KVANNs hager og samlinger hos Væres Venner i Trondheim
KVANN Trøndelag med meg selv i spissen har etablert en del samlinger av nytteplanter og driver også en del forsøk og prosjekter med støtte fra Sparebankstiftelsen gjennom Schübelers […]
Berries
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North American Forest Garden
On the Eastern boundary at the Væres Venner community garden in Trondheim, I wanted to develop a small forest garden devoted to edible plants of the first peoples […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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More fruit and berry leather
More mixed fruit leather! We’ll still be 100% self sufficient in fruit and berries for the next couple of years (NB! I have to admit that I ate […]
Butterflies and moths
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The least scarce moth is the Scarce Silver Y
Back from the UK and the first night I put out the moth trap on 15th / 16th August (they are released again) I was surprised to find […]
Garden tour
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Edible Plants at RHS Wisley Gardens; June 2013
A visit to RHS Wisley near Woking just outside London on 28th June 2013, one of my favourite gardens for edibles spotting….I’m resurrecting this album which I only […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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PEAK PERENNIAL VEG TIME AT RHS WISLEY
A series of pictures taken of edible plants that I spotted in the “ornamental collections” at RHS Wisley Gardens on 11th April 2024. Admittedly, some will be obscure […]
Walk and talk
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EDIMENTALS VISITS RHS WISLEY
On a short visit to England to visit my mum, I visited RHS Wisley yesterday to do a 2 hour walk and talk for the Edibles Team (and […]
Berries / Fruit
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July berries
Various berries harvested late July at home in the Edible Garden and in the Væres Venner Community Garden. More information in the picture captions. These were either eaten […]