My last gig in Austria was a tour in the young botanical garden in Saltzburg. Despite its youth (from 1986), it had one of the best collection of unusual edibles I’ve seen in a dedicated garden to the world’s cultural plants! Of course the ornamental beds also had a lot of food…
This is the site of the talk I gave today with translation at Auerhütte, owned by Tom Strubreiter’s family!
Arrived at my hotel in Vienna…and this is my most Viennese vegetable!
I’m here for 3 nights, doing a guided edimentals walk in the Vienna Botanical Garden tomorrow and 3 hour talk on Wednesday evening in the city!
https://www.arche-noah.at/kalender/termin-im-detail?eid=2021
https://www.arche-noah.at/kalender/termin-im-detail?eid=2022
A few pictures from my first three days in Schiltern and Austrian Seed Savers organisation Arche Noah’s amazing show gardens. The main show gardens are in the village of Schiltern in Langenlois, an important wine growing area, with warm, dry summers and relatively mild winters.
I’m doing a series of talks and garden guided tours this week starting here in Schiltern, then Vienna and finally in the Alps near Salzburg!
…and I got to try one of these broadforks! This one had been handmade for Arche Noah!
I was very pleased to be invited to give a talk organised by the Curtis Museum in Alton, Hampshire, UK, not far from where I grew up in Eastleigh, Hants.
In my book I introduce the Hampshire towns of Alresford (watercress), Selborne (Gilbert White and sea kale) and Alton as the “Hampshire perennial vegetable triangle” or the UK hotspot of perennial vegetable domestication. Alton is included as the home of botanist William Curtis, who was Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London in the 1770s. He was also a friend of Gilbert White! He wrote a pamphlet, ‘Directions for the culture of the Crambe maritima or Sea Kale, for the use of the Table’ in 1799 to bolster efforts in introducing it as a market vegetable.
See the album of pictures from a wander around Alton with Sheila John of the Curtis museum, edimentals tour of the Allen Gallery garden and later talk there! See the album below!
Other related posts:
Directions for the culture of Sea Kale (1799) http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9772
The Hampshire Perennial Vegetable Triangle http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3879
Lecture at the Hillier Gardens http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1281
Hampshire’s Watercress Line http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=335
Another great lively knowledgeable crowd with much interaction at Nabolagshager last night and in a real classroom!!
A Norwegian article about my visit and lecture at Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule i March 2017! http://sjh.no/2017/04/01/
On my way to Canada, I’m doing a slight detour to Hardanger and Sogn in western Norway where I’m giving a talk for Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule (1700-1900) at Marianne Bakeri & Kafè in Aurdal (free entrance) next Friday 24th March (see also https://www.facebook.com/events/1866177443666754) .
I then travel on to Jondal where I’m taking part at a weekend course in small scale organic cultivation at the Hardanger Academy. See the press release below (and at http://hardangerakademiet.no/grunnkurs )
Pressemelding frå Hardangerakademiet, mars 2017
Interessert i giftfri, trygg og sunn mat, kurs i økologisk dyrking?
Den sjette seminarhelga i Hardangerakademiets grunnkursserie går 24. – 26. mars. Tema er: ET LAND – OG HAGEBRUK NÆRMERE NATUREN .
Økologisk dyrking for småskala yrkesdyrking og hagebruk.
Kurset har både praktiske tema om jordpleie, levande og frisk jord, om dyrking av grønsaker, frukt og ber, permanent hagebruk med fleirårige, spiselege vekster og meir teoretiske tema som utviklinga av jordbruket historisk og i framtida.
Føredraga omhandlar t.d. biologisk dynamisk dyrking, organisk biologisk dyrking og økologisk landbruk for framtida, samanhengar frå jord til bord til helse, landbrukets forhold til klima, miljø, jordliv, insekt, fuglar, mm. og landbruksutviklinga frå middelalderen til framtida.
Føredragshaldarar er: Arvid Wold, agronom, Dan Ente, gartnar, Vidar-Rune Synnevåg, gardbrukar, Reidun Pommeresche, siv.agronom og forskar, Tom Harald Eckell, økogardbrukar, Stephen Barstow, forskar – og mye anna.
Dette er det siste helgeseminaret i akademiet sitt grunnkursserie for undervisningsåret 2016/2017. Til hausten startar ein opp med eit nytt grunnkurs i fred, utvikling og miljø.
Det er mogleg å delta på ein av dagane eller på enkeltføredrag. Påmelding og kontaktinfo ligg på heimesida til Hardangerakademiet og på Facebook.
Gjør denne våren til din beste vår! Start med kurs i økologisk dyrking!
Last weekend’s Around the World in 80 plants talk which was broadcast live Around the World is now available on Youtube in 3 parts – for all you Facebookless out there :)
