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Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables
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Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs
Wild Enoki, Oca, Hablitzia, wild buckwheat sprouts, Allium nutans with dandelion, garlic chilis mixed with scrambled eggs for a delicious home grown and foraged lunch!Enoki is one of […]
Food / Tubers
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Rhizo-bacalhau
We occasionally eat wild fish and bacalhau is a favourite made from Norwegian dried cod that can be found in supermarkets here. More or less anything goes in […]
Nut trees
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Mapuche nuts
Thanks to my friend Geir Flatabø from Hardanger, I could finally add monkey puzzle nuts (piñones) to my life list of plants eaten (Araucaria araucana; also known as […]
Food / Salad
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February salad
Lunch salad had the following ingredients;From the garden: Allium scorodoprasum / sand leek / bendelløk (shoots)Allium cernuum / nodding onion / prærieløk (bulbs and leaves)Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / […]
Climbers / Food / Onions / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Habby Chicago Eggs
I was showing a journalist around the winter edible garden and cellar this morning and dug up some nodding (Chicago) onions (Allium cernuum) and picked a few Hablitzia […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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First 2023 Edimental Flowers
Despite the fact that the soil is frozen solid apart from the top couple of cms, I was surprised to discover the year’s first flowers in the garden: 1. […]
Seed
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2022-2023
WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2022-23, THIS YEAR WITH 338 CHOICES20, 21, 22 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Seven Vegetable Dishes
In Denmark’s major ethnobotanical work, Brøndegaard’s Folk og Flora (1978-80), ground elder (skvalderkål; Aegopodium podograria) is one of seven different greens used in a once common health-bringing springtime […]
Dandelions / Salad
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Start of the 2023 Dandelion season
The first wave of dandelions ready for 2023! We will use them with lunch every day for the rest of the winter! Post Views: 262
Birds
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Bullfinch on guelder rose
Bullfinches (dompap) take a very wide range of seeds in my garden including hawthorn, rowan, nettle and Norway spruce, as well as buds of different trees, but this […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere
Presenting this year’s 30 rhizosphantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40 with nut roast, bedecked with the following seeds […]
Root crops
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Oca harvest 2022
Xmas isn’t Xmas without Oca and a hoard of other tubers, served with the traditional nut roast. Pre-xmas preparations includes the annual oca harvest. Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) is […]
Train
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The House from Nordlandsbanen
I had to go to Stjørdal this morning to renew my driver’s license. I took the bus there and returned with the train along the fjord to Trondheim […]
Dandelions / Perennial vegetables
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Geeking out with Dandelions
Earlier this year I bought the Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions by A.J. Richard which contains descriptions, photos and keys for all 239 known UK and […]
Climbers / Edientomental / Pollinators
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Old Man’s Beard
Clematis vitalba (old man’s beard / tysk klematis) is an important wild edible in Italy (young shoots which must be cooked) and also one of the most attractive […]
Birds
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Waxwing and Tawny Owl
A small flock of Waxwings (sidensvans) finally arrived at the end of November and have been foraging in the garden since (rowans / rogn failed this year). In […]
Birds
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White-tailed eagles
We were entertained yesterday by 3 white-tailed eagles (havørn) flying low over the bay and two sat for some time on trees on Malvikodden on the other side […]
water plants
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Sam Thayer and Mississippi wapato
As I mentioned in my post about harvesting wapato in my garden a couple of days ago, I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September […]
Tubers / water plants
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Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest
When I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019, I was lucky to be able to attend Sam Thayer’s Wetland Plant Hike along the […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Root crops / Salad
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“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad
I was going to post an album of pictures showing off all the late flowers in the garden this record-breaking mild autumn still without any frost, but as […]
Moon
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Full moon rise over Forbordsfjellet
I was working in the garden late this afternoon harvesting Jerusalem artichokes (jordskokk), Scorzonera and burdock (borre) roots and I noticed the full moon rising over the mountain […]
Fjord views
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November wake-up views
As the very warm autumn weather continues, still without a frost, here’s a collection of wake-up views so far this month: Post Views: 172
Root crops
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Burdock harvest
I have a large bucket on the balcony where i grow greater burdock (Arctium lappa) for the birds, Both goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (grønnfink) eat burdock seed in […]
Onions
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Twisted-leaf garlic for lunch
I’d sent a few bulbs of twisted-leaf garlic (Allium obliquum) to members of Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) guild for Alliums and had a few left overover, so I […]