I eat wild fish now and again, but there’s always masses of veggies….and today musk mallow (Malva moschata) is at its most productive, with various Russians sorrels, day lily buds and nettles. Also not shown, I used Croatian St. John’s onion (Allium x cornutum), garlic “Aleksandra” (still going strong, stored in my kitchen since autumn), chili and golpar (spice from the seed of Heracleum persicum, Tromsøpalme)

Festival, Permaculture, Talks

Hurdal Nordic Permaculture Festival 2013

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I’m visiting Hurdal Ecovillage again this weekend, so thought I would post this album of pictures from the Nordic Permaculture Festival held there in August 2013! https://www.facebook.com/events/219614368452015/

More can be found by following these two links:
http://naviana.blogg.no/1378933789_nordisk_permakulturfe.html
http://www.kulturverk.com/2013/08/16/permakulturfestivalen-i-hurdal/

Eivind Permakulturdesigner Bjørkavåg preaching hugelbeds

Johan Swärd talked about old grains including Svedjerugen, yes this rye, an integral part of the slash and burn agriculture practised by the Svedje-Finns, is really this tall!

The festival produced most of its veggies on-site!

Prestegården from 1837 is part of the Ecovillage! I had a look in the garden for old garden edimentals!

Edible flowers, Edimentals, Salad

Training my granddaughter

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3 years ago in July 2014….

Edible flowers, Edimentals, Shrub

Red is the rose

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A real beauty is Rosa moyesii from 2700-3800 m in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan in China and loving sea-level in Malvik!

The petals are deliciously edimental in salads!

Fjord views, Sun

Intense rainbow at 10pm

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Beauty all around!

Onions

Alliums in the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens

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Alliums in the botanical gardens in Gothenburg, Sweden on a visit on 16th June 2014. The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes can be controlled. Not many species were flowering. This is one of the best bulb collections in the world with some 1,600 species!!
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The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes can be controlled. This is one of the best collections in the world with some 1,600 species!!

Allium wendelboanum; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Erland_Berg_Wendelbo

Allium sp. : this yellow Allium had seeded around quite a bit…

This one’s a mouthful: Allium macleanii x jesdianum subsp angustipetalum

The next batch were all growing in the open garden… This was labelled Allium nanodes from NW China. However, Mark McDonough has commented “Not nanodes which is vey dwarf, maybe a form of ovalifolium or prattii)

Allium unifolium (I think) had gone wild in a few beds…

Crambe maritima, Crambe cordifolia and Allium Globemaster

Allium maximowiczii var. shibutsuense f. album

Marked Allium carolinianum (from Kina) ???????

Allium “Pink Pepper” from Mark McDonough

Allium cf. rude (Bei Ma Shan, Yunnan, China)

Talks, walks

Åfjord course day

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A great day in the company of some wonderful people in Åfjord yesterday!

Thanks to Astrid Mathilde Petterson and husband Gunnar for arranging the course and for the hospitality at their farm, Rotnes Gård, in an amazing location at the mouth of not one but two salmon rivers, Stordals og Nordalselva! The couple are restoring the farm buildings and rent out rooms to fishermen and tourists: http://www.afjord.no/opplevelser/rotnes-gard/

The day started with my Around the World talk in the morning followed by a great lunch at the farm (spinach soup, sourdough bread, wild salmon wraps etc.). We then wandered along the shore and in the woods looking for wild edibles. Here are a few pictures! Thanks to Bjørn and wife for the lift home afterwards (and quick garden tour!)