Plants on sale in my garden during open days during autumn 2016! Many are in my book Around the World in 80 plants and, in this case, the […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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Wedding salad
3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I […]
walks
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Sunday’s forest tour in Malvik with Naturvernforbundet
As part of Trondheim’s climate festival, which runs all this week, Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway) arranged a tour to experience first-hand a couple of remnants of […]
Bulbs
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Tigridia flowering again!
Tigridia flowering again,,,something else clearly enjoys eating flowers! Post Views: 142
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 […]
Garden tour
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Norway/ Chile / Sweden visit
Thanks for the visit today, Marius Flak and friends from Chile / Sweden! Post Views: 167
Food / Salad
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The Extreme Salad Man at 15!
Last week 15 years ago, the extreme salad man was created…and he is upset that Facebook completely missed this event…so let’s make up for it in this thread, […]
Seed / Spice
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Harvesting golpar
Heracleum persicum is a giant umbellifer, very closely related to Giant Hogweed another very closely related invasive of more southerly latitudes. We call it Tromsøpalme here as these […]
Berries / Fungi
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Fungi 26th August 2016
It was actually bilberries that were the evening’s objective, but when you see several ceps / steinsopp in the woods and hedgehogs/piggsopp and saffron milk caps / matriske […]
Fruit / Nut trees
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Lars Westergaard’s legendary Danish nursery!
Most people into permaculture in Scandinavia know of Lars Westergaard’s nursery in Denmark as one of the best sources of a range of hard to get (and unique, […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Homegrown watermelon berries
Streptopus amplexifolius is a shade loving woodland plant known, amongst others, as twistedstalk, wild cucumber and watermelon berry and has an extensive wild range including North America, Europe […]
Fjord views / Moon
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22° moon halo meets the aurora
Magic happened again last night! I noticed a large halo around the moon when I went to bed at about midnight and was trying to photograph it. That […]
Foraging
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Trip to the Japanese mountains in April 2016
Each day on the trip to Japan had been equally amazing as the day before with new plant and food discoveries all the way!! The venue for my talk […]
Birds
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Tame snipe
I’ve never been able to get as close to a snipe / enkeltbekkasin before. Rather than flying off it just ducked down into the water :) Taken with […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Forest Gardening / Tempura
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Shidoke
On my trip to Japan in spring 2016, I found shidoke (シドケ / Parasenecio delphiniifolia syn. Cacalia delphiniifolia) leaves on sale in a supermarket in Ueda, Japan. This […]
Foraging / Fungi / Malvik
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Mushrooming 20th August 2016
Some pictures from yesterday evening’s trip to the woods looking for fungi!! After several years with almost no ceps / porcini, I found about 10 in good condition […]
Perennial vegetables
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Longest dandelion leaf?
This is my longest dandelion leaf so far at 95cm. Any better? Post Views: 226
Climbers / Fruit
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Olive climbing Hablitzia
A 1m pot grown olive that is now in full flower together with a clambering Hablitzia also in flower… Post Views: 123
Fruit
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Knud Poulsen’s gardens
Søren Holt suggested I should visit Knud Poulsen on my latest visit to Denmark. He’d visited Knud through meeting him through the Danish seed savers Frøsamlerne.dk. Knud has […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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“Have you eaten a flower”
Some pictures from the Grennessminde (Copenhagen) “Have you eaten a flower” event on Saturday 13th August 2016. Thanks for inviting me :) Post Views: 156
Course
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Masterclass #2 at Naturplanteskolen
A good crowd of students at today’s class from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, from permaculturists to nursery owners! Worn out and “empty” after 7 hours […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Jimmu
This is what my new friends from Nepal called Allium wallichii, also known as Jimbu, Dunda, Yang, Himalayan onion, Nepal onion or Sherpa onion! They had actually never […]
Climbers / Onions
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Nepalese meet their onion in Malvik
A lovely visit this evening from botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal and daughter. They taught me several new uses for my old plants! For instance, […]
Birds
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Swallows in cold weather
A large flock of some 200 swallows / låvesvaler feeding very low over a barley field this morning. The air temperature was only +5C….. Post Views: 120