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Food / Salad
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Salad for Jolien
To celebrate the mother of CSA’s in Norway, Jolien P., visiting Malvik for the first time, tonight’s multi-species salad was created… Post Views: 136
companion plants / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Companion perennials
It always amazes me how edible plants in my garden find their own best companions andystem create together really productive microsystems, often on really marginal parts of the […]
Slug
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Albino Arion
It was a bit of a shock to discover this monster when working in the garden yesterday, but it turned out to be a friend not foe, an […]
Foraging / Fungi / walks
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Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils
On Sunday, we went for a walk up to a mountain farm (seter) near to the lake Foldsjøen in Malvik with the main aim to gather alpine bistort […]
Edientomental / Perennial vegetables
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Pink Hogweed
This lovely pink-flowered common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) comes back year after year in my garden! One of the tastiest spring perennial vegetables and source of one of my […]
Bees
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Bumblebees love Allium pskemense
The bumblebees love Allium pskemense, the largest onion in my garden, probably the closest perennial onion tastewise to the common bulb onion Allium cepa and it can be very […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Habeetsia burgers
Habeetsia burgers or Bloody Habbyburgers? Cooked and ground beetroots mixed with 100% wholegrain barley and rye flour, eggs and cooked Hablitzia leaves and Johannes’ shallots (Allium x cornutum), […]
Edimentals / Food / Salad
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The extreme salad collection
A collection of pictures of my extreme salads from the last 20 years can be seen in the gallery below! 8th July 2019: The first 10! To be […]
Fjord views
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Tide line
A front/tide line moving into the bay on 4th July. Floating material is trapped in the convergence zone of the front. The speed of the front can be […]
Birds
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Swallows, swifts and a heron
A couple of videos of birds from this morning. First, a group of swallows (lævesvale) and a few swifts (tårnseiler) were hawking after insects above the tree tops […]
Onions
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Atropurpureum and Validum
First flowering of Allium atropurpureum…seed from Mark McDonough 8 years ago and planted out in 2012. I had thought I’d lost it and then it was suddenly In […]
Food / Herbs / Onions / weeds
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Sonchus and Basil Pesto
Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant
I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
Talks / Walk and talk
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2019 US East Coast Fall Speaking Tour
I’m making the most of my invite to the Mid-West Wild Harvest Festival at the end of September, where I get to teach alongside great North American foraging […]
Birds / Fjord views / weather
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Robin singing at 10 pm
While most of the citizens of Europe and its plants are “cooking” in the heatwave, we are struggling to reach double figures up here and me and the […]
Book / Foraging
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Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter
To buy, see the bottom of this page (for å kjøpe, se nederst på denne siden). Jens Holmboe’s book “Gratis mat av ville planter” (Free food from wild […]
Annuals / Food
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Shungiku Soba
I have a special fascination for vegetables that are superstars in one part of the world but hardly known in others and one of those is garland chrysanthemum […]
Birds / wildlife friendly plants
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Greenfinch eating goatsbeard seed
Tragopogon pratensis ( Goatsbeard; Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon / Geitskjegg) is allowed to self-sow in my garden as it’s not only edible, it’s decorative when the seed head opens and is […]
Birds / Sun
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Double wave reflections at 11pm sunset
25th June 2019: Sunset double reflections at just after 11 pm accompanied by singing robin (rødstrupe) in the garden and oystercatchers (tjeld) in the bay :) Post Views: […]
Bulbils / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Foraging the Viviparous Bistort
It’s a rare event that I forage outside the garden at this time of year and almost never for leafy greens. I’m trying to find time at least […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Northern Sunrise
Sunrise through a Norwegian pine tree this morning, 25th June 2019 Post Views: 129
Garden tour / Talks
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Valbjør Gård and Nordigard Aukrust!
On 1st June, I gave a talk at one of Norway’s oldest herb farms, Nordigard Aukrust, run organically by Ola Aukrust since the 1980s. This was my first […]