On 17th June 2024 I had a visit from Mihaela Tsarchinsk and Philip Varionov from the Green School Village and Permaculture Association of Bulgaria. We’d met previously at […]
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Plant list for The World Garden
I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious […]
Seed / Seed Saving / Self Sufficiency
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
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Edible Gothenburg
On my way back from the Future Heirloom event in Copenhagen, I had a few hours between trains to visit one of my favourite Botanical gardens in Gothenburg, […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Around the garden in 40 plants
To celebrate 40 years since I and my then wife Eileen bought Bergstua (literally house on the rock) and the garden that became The Edible (Forest) Garden, I […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Garden tours in Økouka
We’ve opened the garden many times over the last 25 years as part of Økouka (organics week) and before that as part of Økologisk Hagebrukskampanjen (the organic gardening […]
Hagevandring
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Mine Økouka Trøndelag arrangementer 2024
(Note that there will be an extra tour for English speakers on Tuesday)Det blir en travel uke i neste uke for KVANN Trøndelag med hagevandringer i alle mine […]
Breeding / Hagevandring / Trials
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Nytt fra KVANNs hager og samlinger hos Væres Venner i Trondheim
KVANN Trøndelag med meg selv i spissen har etablert en del samlinger av nytteplanter og driver også en del forsøk og prosjekter med støtte fra Sparebankstiftelsen gjennom Schübelers […]
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Edible Plants at RHS Wisley Gardens; June 2013
A visit to RHS Wisley near Woking just outside London on 28th June 2013, one of my favourite gardens for edibles spotting….I’m resurrecting this album which I only […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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PEAK PERENNIAL VEG TIME AT RHS WISLEY
A series of pictures taken of edible plants that I spotted in the “ornamental collections” at RHS Wisley Gardens on 11th April 2024. Admittedly, some will be obscure […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024
The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, Norway contains over 100 Allium species and over 400 different accessions including a collection of old Norwegian […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Hagevandring med Malvik Hagelag
Dette var kanskje den 10. gangen Malvik Hagelag hadde vært på hagevandring hos meg, over en snart 40 års periode! Jeg meldte meg inn i hagelaget og var […]
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Edibles at RHS Wisley
Since my last visit to RHS Wisley 5 years ago there have been large changes, notably the RHS Hilltop building and adjacent World Food Garden. Last Thursday I […]
Course / Garden tour / Talks
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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 […]
Garden tour / Talks / Walk and talk
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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 […]
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Visit from the National Museum and Credo
Continuing a series of visits and projects where art meets my perennial vegetables. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet), https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/enThanks […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables
On Tuesday 23rd May I spent a great few hours together with Eva Johansson and Annevi Sjöberg from Sweden in my 3 gardens. They were on a […]
Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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God Save the King’s Hostas!
My only post on last weekend’s big news item. This memory came up on my feed this morning. In October 2015 I talked about my book Around the […]
Botanical Garden / Community Garden / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Garden visits with Fosen students
It’s always a pleasure to spend time with students from the Fosen Folk High School from the other side of the fjord. Despite the dreadful weather, we visited […]
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The wildest garden
I was away in the UK unexpectedly for two weeks in June. In my absence, there was a mini-heat wave here with plentiful rainfall too and 24 hour […]
Farm / Garden tour / Music / walks
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Carmen Porter and Hemmingford
I’ve met some wonderful people on my journeys over the last 10 years. One of them is my friend Carmen Porter in Hemmingford, Quebec who kindly offered to […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis
A year ago, on 22nd September 2019, Joe Hollis had invited me to do a walk and talk with him at his Mountain Gardens in North Carolina! Before […]
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Visitors from Ohio
One year ago, it was a pleasure to spend some time touring Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens with these three guys who’d come all the way from NE Ohio […]
Edimentals / Garden tour / Garden views
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A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes
With most Norwegians holidaying in different parts of Norway this year, there are a lot of folks passing Malvik both northwards and southwards and I’ve recently had several […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
19th June 2020: Video update from the Allium (Chicago) garden at the NTNU Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim. The heat wave has brought many species into flower and […]