On the afternoon of my arrival at Freixo do Meio (see previous posts and also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20042), Jorge Carona and I were loaned an electric vehicle to explore the […]
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Edible plants in the Orto Botanico Padua
On a work trip to Italy on 4th April 2009 I took the opportunity to visit Orto Botanico in Padua. Founded in 1545 by the Venetian Republic, it is […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Carraig Dulra permaculture farm
Finally, a post from my 3 days non-stop tour of Wicklow gardens, thanks to Orlaith Murphy. The first stop was Suzie Cahn’s Carraig Dulra Permaculture Farm. The abundance […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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The Teeny Weeny Farm
It’s only taken me two years to blog about the garden at Teeny Weeny Farm, a permaculture inspired market garden in the teeny village of Dyke in Morayshire […]
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Climate Festival garden tour 2018
I’ll once again be inviting Trondheim Climate Festival (Klimafestivalen i Trondheim) to hear about and witness climate friendly vegetable growing in my garden this Thursday (6th September)…tickets are […]
Fruit / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Visiting McMillion’s acres!
On Sunday I finally found the opportunity to visit my friend and fellow Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) board member Andrew McMillion who lives on a small farm in […]
Garden tour / Talks
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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 […]
Article / Garden tour
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30 years in Norway salad
7 years ago (11th August 2011) and 40-50 people from the Trondheim Useful Plants Society (Nyttevekstforeningen) turned up for a walk and talk in my garden, including two […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Urban farming
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Parkens Grøde
Thanks to Elena Katarina for showing me Parkens Grøde at short notice on Sunday evening before I took the train home! The other gardener Marcia Kyle and a […]
Garden tour / Garden views / Salad
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KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden
Some pictures from Day 2 of the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) meet in Malvik in my Edible Forest Garden :) As usual, it was a great group!! Thanks […]
Forager / Foraging / Garden tour / Salad
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Sunny Savage in Malvik
ALOHA all! Thanks to Leda Meredith for the introduction, we had a very enjoyable visit today from Sunny Savage, a foraging author from Hawaii. Sunny is author of Wild Food Plants […]
Garden tour / Walk and talk
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Mount Stewart
An album of pictures from my visit to National Trust property Mount Stewart on the Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland! I return for the Planters Seminar in September! […]
Garden tour
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PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM
PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM (Program for the Norwegian Seed Savers weekend in Trondheim) Fredag 15. juni; kl 19 Vi besøker KVANNs planlagte første nytteplante-reservat hos Væres Venner […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto
This follows on from my early blog posts from my April visit to Northern Italy. Matthias Brück had invited me to Switzerland to take part in the Perennials […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Lake Maggiore and Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre
On day two of our visit to Piedmont in NW Italy, Pius Leutenegger took us on a botanical trip over the hills to Lake Maggiore and the first stop […]
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Dutch visitors
Nice visit on Saturday from Saskia Wanders from Århus Andelsgård (Skien) and 3 Dutch friends, on the way to Lofoten! (with ostrich fern and Zanthoxylum piperitum (Japanese pepper). […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen
I spent a couple of hours in Muséhagen (the old botanical garden) in the centre of Bergen before taking the train to Oslo on Sunday and spent the […]
Garden tour / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Oslo Botanical Garden, Tøyen, spring edibles
On a break in my journey from Trondheim to Hvaler I had a few hours edible-spotting in the Oslo Botanical Garden (full of – not allowed to pick […]
Foraging / Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Permaveggies course on Hvaler
Fantastic spring weather for the first day of our weekend permaveggies course arranged by Hvaler Hagelag on the Hvaler islands in southern Norway. Great group of old and […]
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With Mountain Gardener Joe Hollis in the Zurich Botanical Gardens
During my trip to Switzerland I had a fantastic day together with Mountain Gardener Joe Hollis in Zurich, first in the new (larger) Botanical Garden of the University […]
Garden tour / Nut trees / Trees / Uncategorized
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Balestrand and the journey to Sogn
Andrew McMillion kindly picked me up early on Friday morning from the night train at Oslo airport and we drove together to the location of the KVANN / […]
Foraging / Garden tour / walks
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Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!
I’m chuffed to be asked to be a guest at the BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party at Mount Stewart on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland on […]
Garden tour / Talks
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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 […]
Films / Garden tour
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The complete indexed Extreme Salad Man videos
Many thanks to Ane Mari Aakernes (<3) for putting this play list of Youtube videos she and Berit Børte (<3) made of me last year. All these videos […]
Garden tour / Wild Edibles
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The VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver BC
After visiting the UBC botanical garden on 4th April 2018, I bussed across town to Vancouver’s better known more formal VanDusen botanical garden, although it’s a younger garden […]