I was very saddened yesterday to learn that my friend Helge Finnøy has passed away after a very long illness :cry: Helge was a gentle, modest, intelligent man […]
Drying / Legumes
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Pea and broad bean diversity
I always grow many different types of peas and broad beans (favas) (erter og bondebønner). Peas (Pisum sativum) rarely if ever cross so I grow them very close […]
Birds
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St. Lucia Parrot Day
Today (13th December) is St. Lucia Parrot day and people are celebrating the world’s most beautiful parrot everywhere…even here in Malvik ;) – well, this is how I […]
Birds
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Waxwings and siskin
Waxwings (sidensvans) and siskin (grønnsisik) foraging under the bird feeder today. With siskin and tree sparrow seen today, that brings this week’s species count to 21 species in […]
Birds
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Canada geese
Canada geese passing the house at dusk…in the direction of Canada ;) Post Views: 112
Fjord views / Winter protection
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Forbord illuminations, long dig and leaf piles
An active weekend in the garden digging a trench for the Internet, moving and stacking firewood and piling leaves over less hardy plants…before the next freeze with air […]
Birds
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Goldfinches
About 10 goldfinches (stillits) in the garden again today, both under the bird feeder, on burdock and chicory seed heads! Chicory (sikkori) is another great vegetable to let […]
Birds / Brassica
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Bramblings on kale seed
A flock of 10 bramblings (bjørkefink) and 3 chaffinches in the garden this morning. They were also taking kale (Brassica oleracea) seed (second film). I hadn’t noticed this before! […]
Birds
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Ground feeding redpolls
Redpolls (gråsisik) feeding on the ground (birch seed presumably) outside the kitchen window this afternoon! Post Views: 134
Birds / Sun
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Nuthatches
Two nuthatches (spettmeis) on the bird feeder this morning with a short guest appearance of a male chaffinch (bokfink) :) See the video below! A dark morning here, […]
Article / Permaculture
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My Permaculture Design Certificate project report
I received my PDC after completing the course mainly taught by Jan Bang at my house in Malvik during 3 long weekends in 2017. My project report was […]
Perennial vegetables
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Jan Lein, northernmost Asparagus pioneer
I was saddened to see in yesterday’s Adressa (local paper) that Trøndelags grand old asparagus farmer has died ☹ As part of my project for the Norwegian Genetic […]
Article / Heirlooms / Organic gardening / Seed
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On the World’s Vanishing Vegetables
The article that opened my eyes to the importance of conserving our vegetable diversity was 37 years ago, written by Lawrence D Hills, Director of the Henry Doubleday […]
Drying / Fruit
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Apple moon weekend
At the apple moon coring and cutting apples is a must..processed a couple of hundred apples today, now drying over the wood stove and in the oven. It’s a […]
Malvik / Moon
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Full supermoon
The full supermoon appeared briefly this evening between the rain clouds :) Post Views: 113
Birds
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Bird paradise!
It’s about as like winter England as it gets here this morning, grey and drizzling….so nice to have a flock of 17 goldfinches (stillits) brightening up the day […]
Herbarium
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Opening of the new Trondheim Herbarium TRH
It seems as though it’s a good life being a botanist. It was my second day at work today and it ended at 2:30 in the afternoon with […]
Tubers
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An album of potato diversity in my garden
Below are a series of pictures of my favourite potatoes which I grew until 2012-2013 when blight made it difficult to grow varieties with little resistence: Post Views: […]
Food
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Thanksgiving Quiche
I contributed this quiche for the Thanksgiving dinner in Hurdal, you might be able to see the word “Takk” (Thanks) written in seeds; T – alpine bistort / […]
Food / Nut trees
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Cembra pine cone dip
Wonderful Thanksgiving dip from last night’s festivities here in Hurdal…modelled on a Pinus cembra (Swiss pine / cembrafuru) in the Prestegårdshagen (rectory garden) Post Views: 145
Birds / Flower stalk / Food / Forest Gardening / Root crops
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The many faces of burdock
One of my favourite multi-purpose vegetables and one of my first unusual vegetables that I grew in my garden in the 80s was burdock or borre, more specifically […]
Flower stalk / Food
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Burdock flower stalk curry
This album was first published on FB in June 2012, now “regurgitated” here: “What for dinner? “Burdock flower stalk, nettle and the onion that nods curry” sounds interesting, […]
Botanical Garden / Onions
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My new “job” and office: a dream come true!!
I always dreamed of working in a botanical garden and somehow my wish has come true only 7 months after retiring from job as an ocean wave climatologist! […]
Birds
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Goldfinches back on their winter holiday
A small number of goldfinches spend their winter holiday in the lowlands around Trondheimsfjord, a very good choice I would say! I’ve never seen them in summer here […]
Cellar vegetables / Harvest / House plants
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Harvest (almost) complete
The last 2-3 days I’ve been working hard to harvest and bring in less hardy plants from the garden as it was forecast to be maximum -6C tomorrow, […]