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Holma Forest Garden video!
Really nice video showing off the Holma Forest Garden in southern Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLEC-dtRdk Link to my post about Holma here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=138 In a special part of the garden, many […]
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70 Waxwings in the garden
70 Waxwings / Sidensvans in the garden!!! I’ve never seen that many this late in the winter here…normally they arrive in autumn and stay around a month or […]
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Stratifying seed record frost heave
Exactly 3 years ago, we were having the coldest winter ever. I stratify (cold treatment) a lot of seed of perennials under a cold frame in the garden. I’d never […]
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Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian
Thank you so much Alys Fowler!!! She has apparently been “trailing round the house with my copy (of ATW), unable to put it down.” :-D http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/24/alys-fowler-norwegian-edible-garden Here’s a […]
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SRGC seed has arrived
For the unusual vegetable enthusiast, the place to find seed are the alpine garden clubs’ seed exchanges: Scottish Rock Garden Club (SRGC), Alpine Garden Society (AGS) and the […]
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The Live in London tapes
While I was in London in December I met London Permaculture’s Stefan Geyer at St. Athan’s Hotel in London for a chat and it’s now available for all […]
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The many uses of Udo
An excerpt from the book is on page 55 of the latest Permaculture Magazine :) Post Views: 173
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Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants
The PDF version is now available through Green Shopping and you can download a free sample!! ATW from Green Shopping The Kindle and iTunes versions are also on the […]
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My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!
Thanks very much to Joan Lambert Bailey for the nice remarks and great review! Yes, you’re absolutely right when you say “I am convinced this book is his […]
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The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015
SEE THE NEW SEED LIST Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2014-15. 12, 13 and 14 in brackets indicates the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
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Garlic bulbil sprouts on the way up
My garlic bulbils are on the way up in my living room, sown densely a week ago….soon time to harvest the winter’s first garlic sprouts :) Variety: Estonian […]
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IT’S BACK
Sitting at my desk and there was suddenly this blinding light…took me a few seconds to realise I had just emerged from the tunnel….WOWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Post Views: 194
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Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!
An Interview with the Extreme Salad Man Stephen Barstow at www.Shoreditchradio.co.uk on Sunday 18 January at 20:00 UTC This is an interview I did in London with London Permaculture’s Stefan […]
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Book review in the North Devon Journal
“Stephen Barstow is to edible plants what Robson Green is to fishing!” Well, I hadn’t heard of Robson Green before and I’m sure Green hasn’t heard of me […]
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From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!
14 years ago and my seed list had some 1,000 entries and I even added a usage code (from Plants for a Future)……… Edible and Useful Plant Seed […]
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Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015
Still a week before the sun returns here in Malvik and we leave the tunnel…today’s 20 variety salad harvested today from the living room and cellar! Carrots, chicories, […]
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Wild buckwheat sprouts
My favourite seed to sprout in winter is wild buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum), supposedly the wild ancestor of Fagopyrum esculentum the common buckwheat grown for the gluten free grain. […]
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Riceroot and Hog Peanuts
I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article http://whyfiles.org/2012/farming-native-american-style looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems: “There were […]
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#ATWselfie
The ATW selfie is going viral worldwide…. ;) Send me yours and it will be added…you will be showing support of a very good cause: the conservation and […]
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Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001
The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. They were not interested and […]
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Xmas in Malvik
I’ve eaten vegan food for Xmas for over 30 years and it’s always nut roast and a diversity of colourful tubers from all over the world! The seeds […]
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Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined
Hablitzia (the Caucasian Spinach) and Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) are both shade tolerant perennials one an edible and the other an important medicinal, so not unlikely that they […]
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Coffee
The coffee plant is a fantastic edimental indoor plant that tolerates quite low temperatures in winter….but don’t expect more than a cup of coffee a year :) Coffee […]
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White River Junction, Chelsea Green and the Coop
My book is released today by Amazon in the US….and it’s “Temporarily out of stock” I presume that’s good news :) Visit to Chelsea Green in White River […]