Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Aasdal Wiken‘s Udo (Aralia cordata) has grown a lot since last year and has one of the best views over Fyksefjorden in the […]
Trees
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The old Elm
A little glimpse from one of the best permaculture courses ever that only a selected few attended, Perennialen III i Fykse, Hardanger :) Rebecca J Smith warns me in […]
grain
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Ivar B. Løne and Mylna
My friend Eirik is involved in the restauration of the fantastic Mylna (mill) in Voss…incredible to think that this would be no more if it hadn’t been for a […]
Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Grow UP city salad
Part 1 and 2 of Grow UP city’s film of collecting and making a multispecies salad in my garden in mid-May 2017! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSB5cb_FXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUiS0cOhASA Thanks to Berit Børte […]
Heirlooms / Perennial vegetables
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Kvannsafari to Olde in Bordalen
On 7th August, I went on my first “Kvannsafari” near the mountain village Voss in south western Norway Kvann is Norwegian Mountain Angelica, Angelica archangelica ssp. archangelica, one […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Valdres
Pictures from my visit to Valdres….. Pictures from my visit to Valdres….. Post Views: 152
Fruit
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Raspberry Bilberry Leather
Fruit leather is a quick way to preserve a surplus of fruit. I neither use sugar nor Stevia and don’t have a freezer (by choice), so I dry […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia forest garden
A little video of my Habitzia jungle today… I usually train the plants up into the trees , but I’ve let them do their own thing this year. […]
Birds
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Great tit attacking Hogweed
I noticed this great tit (kjøttmeis) vigorously hacking at a hogweed (Heracleum) stem in the garden, presumably looking for dinner…the picture shows the result Post Views: 106
Edimentals / Malvik / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017
Here’s the first batch of Edimentals pictures from the garden this week :) More to come! 030817: More added 040817: More added 050817: …and even more added! Post […]
Birds
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Robin for company
I had a bit of company sitting working in the garden this afternoon, a young European Robin (rødstrupe)…he/she wasn’t that talkative though… Post Views: 133
Fjord views / Sun
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Bodø train in a bow of rain
…and another bow of rain this evening, this time from my desk with the day train from Bodø approaching Trondheim Post Views: 123
Edible flowers / Food
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Tonight’s slow quiche
100% coarse organic rye and emmer pie crust (flour and butter) kneeded into the pie dish (not rolled out), then a layer of blue cheese, then mixed vegetables […]
Berries / Birds
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Birds sharing Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”
I always thought that thrushes like fieldfares / gråtrost and starlings / stær “shared” the most saskatoon berries (Amelanchier spp.) in my garden, but now I have to […]
Cycling / Fungi
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Bike ride to the shops at Sveberg
For a change I cycled to the shops at Sveberg rather than cycling to town…this also gave me the opportunity to check out the fungi in the woods… […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Permakultur samling Oikos Nord Trøndelag
Pictures from a great day last Sunday in the company of a great group of permaculture interested folks from Oikos Nord Trøndelag (Oikos = Organic Norway) We started […]
Sun
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Thunder and rainbows
Some light thunderstorms today giving some spectacular views :) With Angelica atropurpurea and Gunnera tinctoria… […]
Garden tour
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Planter i Hurdal prestegårdshagen
Her er min bilde-dokumentasjon av plantene i Prestegårdshagen i Hurdal funnet under to besøk i juli 2017 før evt restaurering / nyplanting kommer i gang! Se også bildene av nøttekråkene, […]
Bees / Edimentals
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Bees and other pollinators on edimentals
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia […]
Slug
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Leopard slug sex
My wonderful leopard slugs are feeling it….and I’m happy there will soon be even more of them!! At night, when fertile leopards meet they begin to court, circling […]
Bees / Edimentals / Onions
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Nodding onion season
I love my nodding onions (Allium cernuum) as you can read in my book and the diversity of forms increases as each year passes, both as I introduce […]
water plants
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My pond is back
I finally got my Tiny pond back it into life today after 5 years trying to get rid of the Equisetum (water horsetail?) I foolishly planted many years […]
Onions
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Alliums 24th July 2017
Allium amplectans, Allium wallichii and ultra-slow Allium tricoccum… Added today to my large nearly 800 picture Allium album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150966880345860.471791.655215859&type=1&l=6e2cfcfba0 Post Views: 243