I had already agreed in the autumn to take part in the culinary program of this year’s Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim in collaboration with the leading restaurant […]
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 […]
The Credo / Kosmorama extreme salad
I also produced this ca.105 ingredients salad for the Credo / Kosmorama diversity dinner last night (8th March 2017), a new winter personal best in winter diversity for […]
80 a day keeps the doctor away
Remember you saw my patented “80-a-day keeps the doctor away diet” here first (and mostly leafy greens, with only small amounts of false vegetables (=fruit) like tomatoes, cucumber […]
1st January fantasy salad in Malvik!
With the fantasy salad queen from Naturplanteskolen on a visit to Malvik’s Extreme Salad Man, we just had to combine forces and created a diversity salad for dinner..and […]
Salad wall
There’s now even salad ingredients on the walls of my living room ;) I bought this from Terje Visnes‘ photo exhibition at RAMM in Trondheim (http://www.trondheimramm.no); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=7989 […]
Winter sowing
I’ve sowed 104 new perennial edibles , mostly Alliums… They will spend the rest of the winter outside under my cold frame and hopefully germinate in the spring! […]
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 […]
End of October salad
Just about to eat this….the olive like fruits are fermented wild plums…thanks Søren Holt (just found them at the back of the fridge) Post Views: 136
Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!
Last week, I blogged about the opening of an exhibition in Trondheim by a photographer Terje Visnes who must have taken thousands of pictures for the local newspaper […]
Adresseavisen salad photo shoot…
On 10th June 2014, journalist Hilde Østmoe, with photographer Terje Visnes, interviewed me for regional newspaper Adresseavisen’s Saturday magazine UkeAdressa. It was for a special extended article about urban growing! I […]
Lunchtime office cress
I grow cress / karse (Lepidium sativum) in my office for lunchtime greens and that is 50 cm from harvest to plate ;) Post Views: 143
Extreme salad boy!
This young man came over last night and decorated this 135 ingredients “salade à la jambes de fille” for me to celebrate my daughter’s homecoming ;) Post Views: […]
Danish masterclass mega-salad ingredients
Aiah Noack and Naturplanteskolen have come closest so far to my mega-salad world records. During the masterclass I taught there in August we collected as many edibles as […]
Joke plants
I read some 15 years ago (but would love a proper reference*) that the Victorians (and some more recent jokers too) were […]
Wedding salad
3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I […]
The Extreme Salad Man at 15!
Last week 15 years ago, the extreme salad man was created…and he is upset that Facebook completely missed this event…so let’s make up for it in this thread, […]
Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit
Some pictures from Saturday 16th July in my garden and forage on the shoreline below the house! Post Views: 165
Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad
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Daina and Martina
My latest garden helper is Daina Binde from Latvia (recently: UK) and has impressed me by her plant knowledge! Like my last helper Lorna Marie O’Lynn, she was […]
Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field
Well, not only Mandy’s plot, a group of local people in Ashburton, Devon got together to buy The Field a few years ago to grow vegetables communally! It is […]
A few weekend plants and salads!
Just a few weekend shots from the garden and kitchen during a hard working gardening weekend with my helper, Kia from Fosen Folkehøgskole Post Views: 139
Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds
On 13th August I’ll be doing an edible wander at Grennessminde, the organic nursery just outside of Copenhagen. A large number of edible flowers are also produced here […]
Visiting Camilla Plum
On 2nd May 2016 I finally got to visit Camilla Plum and Fuglebjerggaard. Camilla is one of Scandinavia’s best known authors and broadcasters on edible gardening and cooking. […]
Permaveggies course 2016 Day 2
Despite the very wet and cold start to the day, it was a fun day in my garden, kitchen and foraging along the shoreline with a great bunch […]