My zoom talk “A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens” in Melbourne, Australia was recorded and is now available https://youtu.be/rHX3q3Dng4kI based the talk on Edimentals that can be […]
Future heirloom in Copenhagen
I was chuffed to be asked to be “support act” along with Anders Borgen on the last date of landrace gardener Joseph Lofthouse’s European tour in Copenhagen on […]
Seed saving talk weekend
Thanks to KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) colleague Andrew McMillion for coming up to Trondheim to give his seed saving course for local KVANN and Væres Venner Community Garden […]
The 2023 Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course
The 5th Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course I’ve held in Malvik took place on Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd May with guest Jen McConachie who gave her forest […]
Wild Hive Talk at Home in Chandlers Ford: Resonating with Hampshire!
Thank you once again to all the amazing Wild Hive Collective team for organizing my talk in Chandlers Ford, my home town, on 19th November 2023. It attracted […]
Free temporary access to my book and articles!
Thanks to my publishers Permanent Publications and Permaculture Magazine, free browsing access is available until Thursday to both my book Around the World in 80 plants, two articles […]
Rare perennial veg seed on offer in Chandlers Ford
Below is a list of seeds of (mostly) perennial vegetables that will be offered at my talk at the Hilt in my home town of Chandlers Ford on […]
Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag
Last week was National Organic Week (Økouka), a busy week for me as I had two garden tours in my Edible Garden in Malvik (the rain stopped both […]
Hablitzia Pinaattiohukaiset
Yesterday, I was preparing my talk for the Finnish Permaculture Association (see https://youtube.com/live/CYBqioWTr6U) and was reminded that I had mentioned in my book that Hablitzia could be used […]
Edimentals Goes Mainstream
On the 12th June, I gave my first webinar at a mainstream gardening conference in the US, the Southeastern Plant Symposium, hosted by the JC Raulston Arboretum and […]
Edimentals at the Southeastern Plant Symposium
EDIMENTALS GOES MAINSTREAM? Following on from my visit to Joe Hollis at Mountain Gardens and on the back of a successful talk at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in […]
Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A year ago I was scheduled to give the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Before the lecture, my host Cornelia Cho showed me round the botanical […]
Perennial vegetables webinar on Youtube
The recording of webinar last week on perennial vegetables is now up on Youtube:https://youtu.be/DO_BdCXqaE0 The webinar was part of the course “Ett år i Omställning” (one year in […]
Visit to Seed Savers Exchange and the Vesterheim
(For a Norwegian version of this article, see KVANNs Nyhetsbrev #12: https://kvann.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/KVANNs-Nyhetsbrev_12_fin.pdf) I toured eastern and mid-west USA for 3 weeks in September / October 2019, on the back […]
Return to Austria
I’m returning to Austria in January and giving two talks at two seminars at the 7th Langenlois Woody Plants Seminar on 21st January with focus on woody edibles […]
Seminar on Community Seed Banks in Oslo
On 31st October, I took part in a seminar at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo on Community Seed Banks with interesting talks and discussions with pioneers of […]
Seacoast Permaculture in Portmouth, NH!
Many thanks to Amy Antonucci and Seacoast Permaculture for arranging the second of my two part Around the World in 80 plants talks in Portsmouth, NH on Friday […]
Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine
A great evening at the Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine after a tour of Aaron Parker’s Edgewood Nursery where I’m staying! Possibly the best stocked edible perennial nursery […]
Live in Holyoke!
It was a great evening last night in Holyoke, Massachusetts last night with a great group of knowledgeable permaculture folk! I was also on a tour of Eric’s […]
The Extreme Salad Man in Atlanta
Many thanks to all who turned up for my talk in Atlanta last night. I’m told there were almost 200 people :) The book store sold all 25 […]
Edimentals tour of the US
I’ll be giving a series of talks and courses in the US from 22nd September to 6th October, including at Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens in North Carolina; at […]
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 […]
The Alston lecture in Atlanta, Georgia
On 24th September, I’m doing the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens :) Free entry! https://atlantabg.org/calendar/alston-lecture-around-the-world-in-80-plants-an-edible-perennial-vegetable-adventure Post Views: 129
2019 US East Coast Fall Speaking Tour
I’m making the most of my invite to the Mid-West Wild Harvest Festival at the end of September, where I get to teach alongside great North American foraging […]
