Two gourmet ingredients (and many more) for tonight’s green pasta sauce are just doing their own thing in my edible garden with little interference from me, apart from […]
Foraging / Fungi
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The Big Fungi Haul
It’s ridiculous but it’s been such a busy summer that I hadn’t found time for foraging mushrooms in the forest this year until last Saturday 12th October. We […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Havesting frozen winter chantarelles
Spent yesterday afternoon harvesting winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) as much as we could carry out of the woods and almost all were frozen solid making some unusual sounds in […]
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 […]
Drying / Foraging / Fungi
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Forest bounty
Spending so much time in the 3 gardens I look after – The Edible Garden; The World and Demonstration Gardens at Væres Venner Community Garden and the Allium […]
Fungi
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Porcini in abundance
At last, after the warm summer the porcinis (ceps / steinsopp; Boletus edulis) are coming up in large numbers in the woods, the best year since 2005! I’d […]
Fungi
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Nut disco: new species for Malvik kommune
A new species of fungi discovered growing on an old wild hazel nut in the garden this week, nut disco (Hymenoscyphus fructigenus), not found earlier in Malvik kommune. […]
Drying / Fungi
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Standing room only!
I’ve already shown that all the windows are full of drying seeds at the moment, now it’s standing room only as the tables and chairs are now full […]
Fungi
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Second Winter Chantarelle Haul
The forest has unlimited supplies of winter chanaterelles (traktkantarell) at the moment, so making the most of it and drying as many as we can! They’re now much […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Laying down winter chanterelle supplies
It was a busy weekend picking our winter supplies of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) in the forest. This abundant species is mycorrhizal, associated in Norway with spruce, usually in […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Fungi / Legumes
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Runner Bean harvest
As I wrote earlier, it looks like we may have a glut of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) this year, the first time for many years. Runner beans are […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Fungal abundance
The forest is now full of edible fungi, witness today’s haul of mostly chantarelles, winter chantarelle, hedgehog fungi (two species) and puffballs (Norw: kantarell, traktkantarell, lys- og rødgule-piggsopp […]
Food / Fungi / Invasive plants
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Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza
Tonight’s veggie pizza (with part of the bread dough as I’m also baking bread this evening) had some unusual for me ingredients: perennial kales, a mix of oriental […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Winter chantarelles / Traktkantareller
Earlier in October, we found a place with a large amount of chantarelles (kantarell); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=23655). We noticed that there were also a lot of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell; […]
Drying / Fungi
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October Chantarelles
This week, somewhere in Trøndelag, we stumbled on a large number of chantarelles (kantarell). The aim of the trip was to pick winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) for drying. Imagine […]
Fungi
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The Grooved Bonnet
A new species for the garden is The Grooved Bonnet (Sølvhette) or Mycena polygramma, a bioluminescent fungi important in decomposing organic matter, recycling nutrients and forming humus in the soil, growing in […]
Fungi
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Trooping Funnel
There’s a giant fairy ring in the garden, perhaps 10m in diameter, formed by a fungi called the trooping funnel (Clitocybe geotropa) or heggetraktsopp in Norwegian. This year […]
Fungi
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The Cloud Funnel
A line of cloud funnels or puddertraktsopp (Clitocybe nebularis) were found this week in the wild part of the garden. Edible if cooked for 10 mins. I haven’t […]
Fungi / walks
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Walk and forage to Tripynten
Friday’s forage (11th October 2019) was combined with a walk to the top of Tripynten (315m). Please let me know if you can ID any of the fungi! […]
Fungi
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That Chantarelle Moment
That special moment each year when you see the first large group of chantarelles in the woods! Used in a delicious green wholegrain spelt pasta sauce with Malva […]
Foraging / Fungi / walks
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Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils
On Sunday, we went for a walk up to a mountain farm (seter) near to the lake Foldsjøen in Malvik with the main aim to gather alpine bistort […]
Fungi
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St. George’s Mushroom: a new edible for The Edible Garden!
I’ve been hoping this species would one day arrive in the garden and a week ago I noticed a small group of St George’s Mushroom (Vårfagerhatt) or Calocybe […]
Fungi
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Enokitake=Velvet Shank=Vintersopp
One of the hardiest fungi appears often midwinter in mild winters. It is the velvet shank (vintersopp in Norwegian, meaning winter fungus; Flammulina velutipes). The recent mild weather has […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Sopptur 16th November
(Sopptur = Mushroom picking / fungal foray) Still masses of winter chantarelle in the woods despite for frosts a week ago…and a few chantarelle and hedgehog fungus…. Post […]
Fungi
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Fungi at Gevingåsen
After finding large quantities of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) the day before within a few hundred metres of our start point, it was very surprising to find only a […]