More mixed fruit leather! We’ll still be 100% self sufficient in fruit and berries for the next couple of years (NB! I have to admit that I ate […]
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 […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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Dried fruit salad
The fresh fruit season approaches rapidly as the first fruit ripens…wild strawberries (markjordbær) and haskaps (Lonicera edulis). Since the fresh apples ran out early April we’ve been eating […]
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 […]
Drying / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dried Aster Scaber
One of my favourite perennial vegetables and a fantastic edimental is Aster scaber (nowadays Doellengeria scabra), here harvested in spring in my garden: In September, in a farmer’s […]
Drying / Edimentals / Fruit
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Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim
I’ve long had a Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) in the garden without a partner. The oldest is maybe 20 years old. I’ve several times tried to propagate more […]
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 […]
Berries / Drying
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Processing blackberries and plums
Early ripe blackberries (bjørnebær) and plums (sviskeplommer)….will be overripe or rotten by the time I return from my trip to England, Ireland and Hurdal! So, I’ve dried those […]
Drying / Fruit
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Glut of Courgettes
What to do with the present glut of courgettes (aka zucchinis / baby marrows)? Once dried, they taste slightly sweet raw! Post Views: 102
Berries / Drying
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Dried bilberries
Dried bilberries (blåbær), not leather this time and chantarelles (kantarell) also finished!! Post Views: 85
Drying / Legumes
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Pea and broad bean diversity
I always grow many different types of peas and broad beans (favas) (erter og bondebønner). Peas (Pisum sativum) rarely if ever cross so I grow them very close […]
Drying / Fruit
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Apple moon weekend
At the apple moon coring and cutting apples is a must..processed a couple of hundred apples today, now drying over the wood stove and in the oven. It’s a […]
Berries / Drying
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Worcesterleather and dried Aronia berries
The best October berry here is a berry that I have concluded in the past is Worcesterberry, although I had received it as Jostaberry, see the following blog […]
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 […]
Drying / Onions
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Persian shallot confusion!
I’ve also harvested onions of Allium stipitatum “Album”, one of the so-called Ornamental onions…but for those in the know also a fantastic Edimental onion. I bought this one […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
Drying / Food
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Broad beans, peas and quinoa
Kitchen cupboard with broad beans, peas and quinoa.. Post Views: 96
Drying / Fruit
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Prune plum harvest
Amazing how many plums you can get from one tree and this is only about 2/3 of the crop! Due to the lack of night here in May […]
Drying / Fruit
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Sour cherry harvest!!
My favourite dried fruit is sour cherry / surkirsebær. A good yield this year, untouched by the birds! 050916: Added a picture of the dried fruit…trying hard not […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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Drying berries
A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and […]
Berries / Drying
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Wood dried elderberries
Elderberries dried over my wood stove! Post Views: 81