I scanned these old pictures this morning taken in the garden in summer 97 when n\my Mum and Dad helped me erect the greenhouse….14 years later it was […]
Cycling / Foraging / Fungi
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Fungal bonanza by bike and job creation
I can’t remember the last time we had a porcini (cep, penny bun) or steinsopp in Norwegian year here, well over 10 years I think!! There are huge […]
Birds
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Spotted flycatcher
Spotted flycatcher (gråfluesnapper) in the garden today! Post Views: 109
Community Garden / Talks
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Talking in a swimming pool: Neubad and Neugarten
On Thursday 5th April 2018, I arrived to give a talk at a place called Neubad in Lucerne! I had no idea that I would be talking from […]
Fruit / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Visiting McMillion’s acres!
On Sunday I finally found the opportunity to visit my friend and fellow Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) board member Andrew McMillion who lives on a small farm in […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Sunrise 27th August 2018
So good to get back (last night) and wake to this….sunrise is now around 6 am and its position is now moving steadily towards south each morning! Post […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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15 year record salad ingredients
A few months ago, I found an Excel file with a complete list of ingredients in my 537 plant species (including varieties) unofficial world record salad from 2003. […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Ringebu Prestegård
I travelled yesterday from the PDC course at Hurdal Prestegård (rectory) to another rectory in Ringebu in the Gudbrandsdalen about 3 hours north by train! I was invited […]
Article
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Dave du Feu still inspiring after all these years!
Good to see that Dave du Feu, who inspired my vegetable gardening back around 1978/1979 (we met with our bikes on a train) is still inspiring folk in […]
Berries / Drying
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Dried bilberries
Dried bilberries (blåbær), not leather this time and chantarelles (kantarell) also finished!! Post Views: 119
Sun
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Pstereo rainbow
(P.S: Pstereo is the name of the music festival going on in Trondheim just now!) Post Views: 127
clouds / Fjord views / weather
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Thunderstorm
Just before the thunderstorm hit this evening :) As the storm retreated….HE poked his nose out ;) What’s his name? Post Views: 121
Foraging / Fruit / Fungi
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Forage in Malvikmarka
A productive afternoon in the woods yesterday on the Malvik side of Solemsvåttan with my Swiss helper Julia Albrecht with a good haul of bilberries and the year’s […]
Article / Garden tour
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30 years in Norway salad
7 years ago (11th August 2011) and 40-50 people from the Trondheim Useful Plants Society (Nyttevekstforeningen) turned up for a walk and talk in my garden, including two […]
Berries / Foraging
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Fevollbergan forage
On Thursday this week we went for a forage locally as I’d heard reports that chantarelles were appearing after the rain….we didn’t see any edible fungi but there […]
Beans / Food
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Felafel: first harvest from the KVANN garden at Væres Venner!
The first harvest at the KVANN vegetable sanctuary garden at Væres Venner was broad beans (bondebønner) from a mixed grex and this was turned into delicious falafels that […]
Community Garden
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Væres Venner update; 10th August 2018
I spent a couple of hours working at the Væres Venner Community Garden (Felleshage) yesterday and here are a series of photos showing progress! If you’d like to […]
Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Crazy about Udo
Crazy about Udo (Aralia cordata)….also these hoverflies and wasps… Post Views: 111
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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7th August multisalad
A little composition put together last night together with my daughter and artist friend from UK and wwoofer Kristina from Czech…including Allium macranthum (centerpiece), Allium carinatum pulchellum “Album”, […]
Root crops
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Queen Anne’s Thistle tubers
I accidentally pulled up one of my Queen Anne’s Thistles (Cirsium canum) and I discovered the tubers were quite like the tuberous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum) Post Views: 165
Birds
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A scattering of herons
Sitting in the garden working this morning and suddenly a flock of 9 grey herons (hegre) flew past A flock of herons is sometimes known as a scattering […]
Root crops
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Balloon flower
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is called doraji. Its root, either dried […]