I grew up in Eastleigh only a few miles from Southampton, so it’s a bit special for me to be invited to talk to some groovy growers in that town on Wednesday 15th June 2016!
Category Archives: Talks
Around the World in Oslo!
A full house of a mixed crowd of all ages, some 70 people, had turned up for my lecture at the Botanical Garden in Oslo despite the beautiful evening (we should have been outside) and the long holiday weekend! Thanks to the Norwegian Botanical Associtation and Natural History Museum for putting on this event and in particular Honorata Gajda.
Back home now after a night on the train…a fantastic week on the road, thanks to all the people who helped along the way….and some 60 books lighter :)
Appearance at Hellens Garden Festival in Much Marcle
Announcement of my appearance at the Hellens Garden Festival in a place with the unlikely name of Much Marcle on 12th June :) Really looking forward to it!!
Apparently, I was introduced to this place when I was a youth,being inspired by Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selbourne as according to the Wikipedia page on the village:
“About three miles north-north west of the village, on the eastern face of Marcle Ridge, a massive landslip, estimated at 60,000 cubic metres, took place over three days starting on 17 February 1575. Named “the Wonder”, it was so large that full-grown trees were carried down the slope onto an adjoining property. In his book The Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White (1720–93) quotes the words of John Philips who wrote:
“I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice
Of Marcley Hill; the apple nowhere finds
A kinder mould; yet ’tis unsafe to trust
Deceitful ground; who knows but that once more
This mount may journey, and his present site
Forsaken, to thy neighbour’s bounds transfer
Thy goodly plants, affording matter strange
For law debates!”
A good place to have a garden then….disaster doesn’t strike twice etc…
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015…..
During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known as skrúðmeti in Iceland!!
https://www.facebook.com/sumarhusidoggardurinn/posts/1042595959106488
Workshops with the extreme salad man in Iceland in early September!
Two workshops in Iceland on my way back from the US…!!
5th September – 1pm to 5pm Sal Garðyrkjufélags Íslands, Síðumúla 1, Reykjvaík “Ætar plöntur með Stephen Barstow – Námskeið Sumarhússins og garðsins (Edible plants with Stephen Barstow)” See https://www.facebook.com/events/1479525102347465/
7th September – 10:00am to 4pm – Hlíðardalsskóli, Iceland. Workshop on “Plants worthy of trying out in Iceland” https://www.facebook.com/events/1524505947835548 and https://www.facebook.com/events/499988026842767/
Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend talks in October
I’m talking on both days at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England on 3rd-4th October. See the link for details (it’s open to all!)
https://wkgn.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/forum-update
What makes me qualified to talk to walled gardeners? I do have a walled garden you know (where my greenhouse once stood!) :) 
Announcing two Around the World events in Seattle
Poster for my Portland, Oregon talks
Thanks to Pamela Melcher for all the hard work organising all this! Please share!
Edible garden tour at the Tromsø arctic-alpine botanic garden
I’ll be in Tromsø on 22nd and 23rd June. On the 22nd at 1800… I’ll lead a tour around the botanical garden :) The focus will of course be on what food we can find amongst the garden’s impressive collections! I’m not sure if you need to be a member to join this tour.
The next day, there will be a course/talk, probably at Holt, also in Tromsø. More later about this.
Books will be for sale at kr. 200!
Jeg skal være i Tromsø 22. og 23. juni! Det blir hagevandring den 22. juni kl. 18 i Tromsøs arktisk-alpine botaniske hage. Vi skal selvsagt se hva vi finner av spiselige vekster i samlingene :) Jeg er ikke sikker på om man må være medlem av venneforeningen for å være med?
Dagen etter (23. juni) blir det et kurs/foredrag, sannsynligvis på Holt, Tromsø – mer informasjon kommer!
Bøker blir å få kjøpt til kr. 200!
Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!
Bli med meg til Engeløya! Jeg skal holde helgekurs der fra 19. – 21. juni! Påmeldinger til Eva Bakkeslett!
Join me on a weekend to beautiful Engeløya / Island of the Angels (Steigen) in Northern Norway from 19th – 21st June!