The most hardy winter greens in my garden are mostly rich in sulfur compounds including various onions (Allium) and onion-tasting brassica, Garlic mustard (løkurt), Alliaria petiolata or is […]
garlic topsets / Root crops
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Planting Garlic
I finally got the garlic planted today after a week of rain and temperatures up to +10C had melted most of the frost in the soil! Here are […]
Birds
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Long-tailed tits
I see long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) (Norw: stjertmeis) in the garden usually only once each winter. Unlike most tits, they wander during the winter…and a small group of […]
Snow / Sun
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A two minute day!
It was a false alarm when I wrote last week that the sun had set and wouldn’t rise again until mid-January. From my desk in the living room […]
Fjord views / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Winter Udo
My Udo (Aralia cordata) has crushed two blackcurrant bushes…. Post Views: 157
Birds
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Swifts do stay aloft for 10 months!
Proof that swifts (tårnseiler) can stay in the air without landing for 10 months at a time has been announced and they can live for 20 years which […]
Uncategorized
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Ken’s field and nature reserve in Sugadaira, Japan
In early April 2016, on my study tour to Japan, I was invited to the mountain home of Ken Takewaki (and Masama) for a short visit. I wrote about […]
Bulbs / Cellar vegetables / Food / Fungi / Tubers
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Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry
Tonight’s dinner was a lily – chufa – parsley stir-fry (chinese style) with buckwheat noodles… Lily = bulbs of Lilium martagon (Martagon lily), an important forest garden source […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia
My article “Caucasian spinach: the unknown woodlander” was published by Permaculture Magazine 9 years ago in 2007 (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1984 and also my book Around the World in 80 […]
Book / Book reviews
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Around the World in 80 plants at TWO!!
Happy Birthday ATW!! It’s difficult to believe that my book is already two years old!! It’s been an amazing couple of years for me since the book launch and […]
Birds
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Waxwing videos
Today there were around 200 waxwings / sidensvans in the garden most of the afternoon and I saw them eating berries on Sambucus nigra, Viburnum opulus, Berberis, Crataegus […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Partly obscured by clouds
The moon just peeping over the top of the mountain Forbordsfjellet this evening, but partly obscured by clouds ..and my Yacon […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Earth Ways and Ludwig Appeltans
Ludwig Appeltans and Suzanne de Waard of Earth Ways turned out to be fairly close neighbours to Teeny Weeny Farm in Forres where I was staying in September […]
Salad / weeds
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Sonchus “Custard in Greens”
Those that follow this blog will know that I consider common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) to be a super weed in the sense of its importance as a […]
Food
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Curry on the stove
I like to cook on the wood burning stove in winter…here’s a scene from the preparation of last night’s home grown veggie curry with Basella, Swiss chard, the […]
Birds
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Norway’s best breakfast…view!
Scandic Nidelven hotel (background in these pictures) Trondheim has won an award for Norway’s best breakfast 10 years in a row…no wonder when the guests have this bird’s […]
Article / weeds
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Haredylle: gratis mat på alle kontinenter
An article published 10 years ago in the Norwegian magazine Sopp og Nyttevekster…the title means – Common sow thistle: free food on all continents [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dylle_Sonchus_Sopp_og_Nyttevekster.pdf”] Post […]
Birds
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Jackdaws in free fall flight
I love Jackdaws / Kaie, particularly for their playfulness and aerobatics, like this over the house today! Post Views: 123
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Needle and Thread salad!
Yucca filamentosa is at the top of my list of plants that I’ve grown and never expected would survive one winter let alone over 10 and finally flower, […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Moonrise over snow-covered mountains
I was just finishing raking leaves in the garden and a I noticed something orange hanging over the airport and Stjørdal on the horizon! Just the moon again…..don’t […]
Harvest
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Keeping warm
This is how we keep warm up here…harvesting two leeks ;) I think I’ll wait some days before I attempt to harvest the rest…it’s forecast to be above […]
Birds / Sun
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Jackdaws fly towards the red sky
Jackdaws (kaie) fly every morning to breakfast which is served in the fields to the east of here…standing on my bedroom balcony, there’s suddenly a pressure wave as […]
Ecovillage / Permaculture / Spirituality
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Craig Gibsone at Findhorn
After Ariane Burgess had showed me round the Edible Woodland Garden, I’d been invited to lunch by Craig Gibsone, one of the elders of Findhorn having been involved […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Regenerative culture
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Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden
I arrived at Findhorn by bike – http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=8060 – from Dyke on 14th September 2016, where I had been staying at Teeny Weeny Farm! Ariane Burgess had attended my talk […]