“Stephen Barstow is to edible plants what Robson Green is to fishing!” Well, I hadn’t heard of Robson Green before and I’m sure Green hasn’t heard of me […]
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From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!
14 years ago and my seed list had some 1,000 entries and I even added a usage code (from Plants for a Future)……… Edible and Useful Plant Seed […]
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Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015
Still a week before the sun returns here in Malvik and we leave the tunnel…today’s 20 variety salad harvested today from the living room and cellar! Carrots, chicories, […]
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Wild buckwheat sprouts
My favourite seed to sprout in winter is wild buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum), supposedly the wild ancestor of Fagopyrum esculentum the common buckwheat grown for the gluten free grain. […]
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Riceroot and Hog Peanuts
I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article http://whyfiles.org/2012/farming-native-american-style looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems: “There were […]
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#ATWselfie
The ATW selfie is going viral worldwide…. ;) Send me yours and it will be added…you will be showing support of a very good cause: the conservation and […]
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Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001
The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. They were not interested and […]
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Xmas in Malvik
I’ve eaten vegan food for Xmas for over 30 years and it’s always nut roast and a diversity of colourful tubers from all over the world! The seeds […]
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Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined
Hablitzia (the Caucasian Spinach) and Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) are both shade tolerant perennials one an edible and the other an important medicinal, so not unlikely that they […]
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Coffee
The coffee plant is a fantastic edimental indoor plant that tolerates quite low temperatures in winter….but don’t expect more than a cup of coffee a year :) Coffee […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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White River Junction, Chelsea Green and the Coop
My book is released today by Amazon in the US….and it’s “Temporarily out of stock” I presume that’s good news :) Visit to Chelsea Green in White River […]
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New Year Hablitzia
There are 8 pages in my book devoted to this, one of my all time favourite perennial vegetables, Hablitzia tamnoides. I prefer just to call it Hablitzia or […]
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Oca Harvest
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) is a short day plant from the Andes which produces next to nothing outside here as the plants are usually killed by the first hard […]
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This old man’s beard has gone to seed…..
Most of the snow disappeared in the garden after rain and high temperatures over the last 24 hours…revealing this old man’s beard in seed. I’ve grown Clematis vitalba […]
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Sowing a Vermontian woodland
I tonight sowed various perennial edibles I found and collected seed of in the woods near Woodstock, Vermont while visiting a friend and my US distributors Chelsea Green […]
Herbs / Perennials
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Greek Mountain Tea / Sideritis syriaca
I visited an ex-colleague in Athens, Greece some 20 years ago. He offered me tea of a plant I didn’t know. He called it mountain tea from the […]
Uncategorized
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AGS seed
In the post box today from the Alpine Garden Society’s seed exchange… :) To be sowed this evening for stratification (cold treatment outside). Post Views: 164
Annuals / Dandelions / Perennials
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Weed art
LOVE THIS!! How many edible weeds can you spot? Two of them are in my book – Taraxacum officinale and Sonchus oleraceus… http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/mona-carons-murals-of-weeds-slowly-overtake-walls-buildings/ Post Views: 199
Perennials
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Extreme salad man mk. II
My favourite Xmas present….the Extreme Salad Man now has company of his namesake (the same blue eyes and boots!!). Here seen tramping in one of my salads ;) […]
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“If you can’t beat them, eat them…”
During my talks I make the suggestion that although there are justifiably invasive unwanted species in our part of the world, there are many “black-listed” plants in my […]
Perennials
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Drying Persian shallots
Drying Persian shallot bulbs over my wood stove with the first batch of apples! Perennial Allium altissimum.. Post Views: 203
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Norwegian article from a local Ostrich Fern forage
A Norwegian article from Trondheim’s street magazine Sorgenfri in 2013 about foraging locally here in Malvik for Ostrich Fern, a plant which few people realise is edible and […]
Perennials
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Hampshire’s Watercress Line
Watercress is one of the 80 plants in the book, a plant that has spread worldwide reputedly due to the habit of the Englishman for eating watercress sandwiches […]
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Interview in Malvikbladet
An interview in connection with my book and forthcoming talk was published in our local newspaper on 13th December 2014. Here it is, in Norwegian of course… [gview […]
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BBCRadio Solent
The distributor who has worked to arrange interviews this week while I’m in the UK didn’t mention I’m a local Hampshire lad. Nevertheless BBC Radio Solent in Southampton and Hilliers […]