On 1st June, I gave a talk at one of Norway’s oldest herb farms, Nordigard Aukrust, run organically by Ola Aukrust since the 1980s. This was my first […]
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Edimentals in Lom
Edimentals is back on tour and today will be introducing the good citizens of Lom in the Norwegian mountains to perennial vegetables and edimentals around the world at […]
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Væres Venner status
Jeg holdte vedlagt presentasjon denne uken om status med KVANNs første hagene hos Væres Venner like utenfor Trondheim (Ranheim). Vi trenger flere som har lyst å hjelpe til…ta […]
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Cobham and Chobham
My second talk in the UK was in Cobham in Surrey for Plant Heritage, an organisation that administers 620 national plant collections (https://www.nccpg.com) including Jackie Currie’s national Allium […]
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Events in 2019 with the Extreme Salad Man!
I’ve just updated my list of events for 2019 on my main events page, http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=262 Hope to see some of you at one of these events! 19th February Malvik […]
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Guest speaker at the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival
I’m very chuffed and honoured to have been asked to be guest speaker at next year’s Midwest Wild Harvest Festival on September 27-29. The festival is organised by […]
Book / Perennial vegetables / Plant Heritage / Talks
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Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012
Norwegian: I september 2012 besøkte jeg Grimstad for å snakke om min bok Around the World in 80 plants som snart skulle se dagens lys! Jeg holdt et foredrag for […]
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Tour de Portugal links
Perennials Resistence in Mertola, Portugal (video and interview) http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20370 Herdade do Freixo do Meia http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20042 Freixo de Cima http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20133 In search of the wild asparagus at Bombeira do Guadiana […]
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The Wild Plants Lady meets the Extreme Salad Man
The Wild Plants Lady meets the Extreme Salad Man to discuss ready salted vegetables on the Magoito Cliffs north of Lisbon! A) Crithmum maritimum (rock samphire or death […]
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Visit to Pro Specie Rara
On 4th April 2018, I took advantage of my trip to Switzerland to attend the The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience symposium to visit KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed […]
Community Garden / Talks
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Talking in a swimming pool: Neubad and Neugarten
On Thursday 5th April 2018, I arrived to give a talk at a place called Neubad in Lucerne! I had no idea that I would be talking from […]
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Ringebu Prestegård
I travelled yesterday from the PDC course at Hurdal Prestegård (rectory) to another rectory in Ringebu in the Gudbrandsdalen about 3 hours north by train! I was invited […]
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Dokka Garden Festival
Just a few pictures from the Dokka Hagefestival (Garden Festival) this weekend 23rd June! I gave a talk outside under the festival “sail” supported by some 20 different […]
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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 […]
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Extreme Salad Man on Gardener’s Question Time
Thanks to Anna who told me she’d heard my name mentioned on BBC Gardener’s Question Time yesterday in connection with my June appearance at the programme’s summer party […]
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Extreme Salad Man at Mount Stewart events this summer
I’m appearing at two events at National Trust property Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland this summer. I’ll be doing talks and walks and talks at both events 9th […]
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Extreme Salad Man Videos
A: Around the World in 80 plants talk in Hurdal, Norway in 3 parts with index to all the plants and topics covered in the film description: Part […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Salad / Talks / Winter protection / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!
Thank you Emilia Rekestad for putting last week’s webinar on winter perennial vegetables up more permanently on youtube. Emilia first introduces the webinar and the polyculture project through […]
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Japan and the edible perennials Webinar
Well, I survived the last 3 intensive days, first travelling from the UK whilst preparing for Wednesday’s talk about my study trip to Japan in spring 2016 at […]
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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 […]
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The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience symposium
Happy to announce that I’ll be in Switzerland the week after Easter to attend and talk at a symposium on “The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience” Here’s the […]
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Arche Noah at Seeds for the Future seminar
I made a presentation about my visit to Austria and Arche Noah in June at the “Seed for the future” seminar in Oslo last week! The presentation can […]
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Perennial vegetables and edimentals for cities
This week I gave a couple of talks for the first time on the subject of “Perennials: Attractive and climate friendly city vegetables” ….covering everywhere from roof gardens […]
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Høstivalen edible walk and talks
The only picture I took during Saturday’s two edible plant tours of Hurdal Ecovillage, the farm, the rectory garden (Prestegårdshagen) and the CSA scheme (andelsbruk)! This was part […]
Drying / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Nursery / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Talks
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Around the world in 80 Alliums
Yesterday, I gave my first talk about my (second) love of onions (alternative title All you wanted to know about Alliums but were afraid to ask!)….fittingly in the […]