A nice walk at Vennafjellet just over the border in Selbu kommune on Monday! We started at Svendalstjørna,walked over to the old seter (mountain farm) at Engavollen and […]
Festival / Foraging
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The Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018 in Jondal
A few pictures from a great weekend in Jondal at the Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and Environment A few pictures of edibles in the garden of the […]
Forager / Foraging / Garden tour / Salad
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Sunny Savage in Malvik
ALOHA all! Thanks to Leda Meredith for the introduction, we had a very enjoyable visit today from Sunny Savage, a foraging author from Hawaii. Sunny is author of Wild Food Plants […]
Events / Foraging
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Final programme for Mount Stewart
I’m travelling today towards Northern Ireland where Edimentals is taking part in the BBC Radio 4 Gardener’s Question Time Summer Party at Mount Stewart (one of two visits […]
Course / Foraging / Talks
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Perennial vegetable course at Landås
The main reason for my visit to Bergen was the Saturday course on perennial vegetables for the organisation Bærekraftig Liv (literally Sustainable Living). We had perfect weather for […]
Food / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Belated happy birthday to me
The first veggie food I ate was macaroni cheese and chips at Edwin Jones (now Debenhams) in Southampton, a treat when we Mum took us shopping back in […]
Foraging / walks
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Homla walk May 2018
Pictures from this week’s 5 hour (botanist pace) walk along the spectacular Homla canyon, the start about 14 km from home! Post Views: 118
Foraging / walks
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Day 2 of the Hvaler Permaveggies Course
On the second day, we started with the second part of my talk and then had a walk on the beach at the Ytre Hvaler National Park looking […]
Foraging / Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Permaveggies course on Hvaler
Fantastic spring weather for the first day of our weekend permaveggies course arranged by Hvaler Hagelag on the Hvaler islands in southern Norway. Great group of old and […]
Food / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Spring Ryotto
We’re now going into a period traditionally called the hungry gap, but in my eyes it’s the Full gap, the period with an abundance of vegetables, both perennial […]
Foraging / Garden tour / walks
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Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!
I’m chuffed to be asked to be a guest at the BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party at Mount Stewart on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland on […]
Foraging
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Foraging in (Old) Hampshire
It’s difficult to believe that the spring foraging season has come so far here in Hampshire, UK whilst on the other side of the North Sea there are […]
Foraging / Talks
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Hampshire and the Hungry Gap talk!
A few pictures from my Mum and Dad’s garden in Chandlers Ford, a walk around Old Town, Southampton, my talk on Hungry Gap veg at the Art Centre […]
Book reviews / Foraging / Invasive plants
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Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer
Sam Thayer is without doubt my favourite foraging author and his new book Incredible Wild Edibles does nothing to change that! It’s been 7 years since his book […]
Foraging / Fungi / walks
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Forbord to Malvik bike push!
Pushed the bike along a path through the woods with protrubing tree roots looking for some late edible fungi… Post Views: 80
Edible flowers / Foraging / Salad
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Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad
Following my 2002 renaissance salad at the botanical garden in Trondheim in 2002 (see www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=14320), I followed this up at the Trondheim Food Festival (Matfestivalen) on 5th August […]
Foraging
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Travelled dandelions
It’s a crazy world…even green dandelions (not even blanched) are transported 1,000 km or more from California to here in Victoria BC to be sold in a supermarket, […]
Berries / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Foraging / Forcing / Fruit / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / Salad / Seed sprouts / Snow / Sprouts / Vegetarian
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Extreme winter record salad
Proof one more time that north is best for growing a diversity of tasty salad greens ;) Presenting (and claiming) my new world winter salad diversity record, a […]
Foraging
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Two month early spring foragables at 63.5N
It was one of the mildest December / January periods here since records began in the 1800s, no snow at sea level and no snow forecast, 3-4 cm […]
Foraging
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Wild edibles in SW England in late February
In late February last year I was in Cornwall for a short visit and had a head start on the year’s wild edible foraging with two less hardy species in […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Foraging
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Bike ride to Findhorn
On the second day of my stay with Kirsty Reid and Chris Johnstone at Teeny Weeny Farm (Dyke, Moray) I cycled over to visit Findhorn! There had been […]
Foraging / Permaculture
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Skomvær 2014
Here is my report from the second permaveggies / foraging weekend on the wonderful arctic island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands off north west Norway. I spent […]
Foraging / Permaculture
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Skomvær Fyr / Lighthouse: 2-4 August 2013
The first magical long weekend on the island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands. I was contributing at a permaculture / wild food workshop there in August 2013, […]
Foraging / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens
Fun day collecting edimentals from the garden’s collections, making a multi-species salad followed by my talk and walk! Thanks to all who came and to Sabina Knees for […]