40 years ago this month I came to Norway to find a place for us to live as I was to start work at Institutt for kontinentalsokkelundersøkelser (IKU; […]
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May 2021 Extreme Salad
The Extreme Salad Man was asked last night to make a salad…..but he only managed 55 in total. He blames the fact that he was only given an […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Extreme salad man strikes again
The first 100 plant salad for 2020: Post Views: 115
Edible flowers / Food / Salad
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The year’s first extreme salad
Half an hour “foraging” in the garden and half an hour in the kitchen and I can present the year’s first multi-species salad….54 different plants! Notable additions were […]
Salad
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Buzz Buttons
Serving a side-salad of leaves of Acmella (Spilanthes) oleracea is guaranteed to get the juices flowing and lead to a lively discussion at dinner… Widely known as the […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops / Salad
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The winter’s first salad shoot salad
The first winter shoots were harvested from the cellar today. It is almost totally dark in the cellar and currently about +6C. The blanched shoots in the picture […]
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Rapini salad for Andrew
Fellow seed saver and friend Andrew McMillion is staying for a couple of days…giving a seed saving lecture in Trondheim. Andrew is leader of KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) […]
Salad
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Hazel’s salad
My lovely daughter Avellana has been working at the Botanical Gardens in Trondheim this summer. It’s been lovely having her around and we’ll miss her! I made two […]
Course / Garden tour / Salad
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BINGN Student Visit to the Edible Garden
It was a busy weekend. On Sunday, a group of 6 third year BINGN students, a three year biodynamic apprenticeship program in the Nordic countries were here for […]
Garden tour / Salad / Talks / Walk and talk
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The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening
During KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) annual meeting weekend in Trondheim we had an official opening ceremony for my garden, The Edible Garden (Den Spiselige Hagen), as a Permaculture […]
Berries / Food / Salad
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Saskatoons and salad
At the weekend at the Permalin Farm summer festival I met an English-German couple Johnny and Anna who were on a long campervan holiday in Norway, doing some […]
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Salad for Jolien
To celebrate the mother of CSA’s in Norway, Jolien P., visiting Malvik for the first time, tonight’s multi-species salad was created… Post Views: 110
Edimentals / Food / Salad
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The extreme salad collection
A collection of pictures of my extreme salads from the last 20 years can be seen in the gallery below! 8th July 2019: The first 10! To be […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture / Salad / Walk and talk
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Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre
Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre (Thanks to Berit Børte, Kjell Hødnebø, Lone Dybdal, Elin Mar, Bell Batta Torheim, Inger Line Skurdal Ødegård and Margaret […]
Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Hail and Kale salad!
A collection of edibles in the garden today which had been hailed on—and my first hail salad…..but nothing on this one: https://twitter.com/farmingainteasy/status/889675766526509056 Post Views: 162
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad
The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the […]
Foraging / Salad
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The Ecoaldeias Janas extreme salad
As part of the course organised by Ecoaldeias Janas in the village Janas near Sintra in Portugal, Fernanda Botelho collected wild and cultivated plants and here she is making an […]
Food / Salad
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October salad
Today’s salad was decorated by the grandchildren! Didn’t they do a good job ….and they dug into it, picking out the good bits which included sour Begonia flowers, tomatoes […]
Fungi / Salad
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The tastiest time of year?
One of, my favourite culinary times of year…the last two evenings I’ve eaten fresh broad bean falafels accompanied by fresh orange milkcaps / granmatriske (Lactarius deterrimus) and a […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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15 year record salad ingredients
A few months ago, I found an Excel file with a complete list of ingredients in my 537 plant species (including varieties) unofficial world record salad from 2003. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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7th August multisalad
A little composition put together last night together with my daughter and artist friend from UK and wwoofer Kristina from Czech…including Allium macranthum (centerpiece), Allium carinatum pulchellum “Album”, […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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Half my age party!
I “noticed” a few days ago that my little girl Hazel had reached half my age (in number of days)! It was noticed that Hazel would be half […]
Garden tour / Garden views / Salad
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KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden
Some pictures from Day 2 of the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) meet in Malvik in my Edible Forest Garden :) As usual, it was a great group!! Thanks […]
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 […]