Happy Dandy Lions forced in the living room, glad to have been invited into the warmth. Little do they know though that I had a cruel plan to […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Harvest / Winter vegetables
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Harvesting winter vegetables before the freeze
I’ve been self-sufficient in fresh vegetables year round and have blogged and lectured about how I can do this even in winter without a greenhouse, without a freezer […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Mallows in season
Mallows (Malva spp.) are now in season for harvesting and will from now until autumn be an important source of greens and edible flowers. The best part are […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Today’s perennial catch
23rd April 2020 perennial greens used in a delicious quiche (eggepai):Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely / spansk kjørvel)Rumex acetosa (sorrel / engsyre) Campanula latifolia (giant […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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An alternative spring harvest
Somebody asked me the other day if I use floating mulch (fiberduk / agryl) to be able to harvest all these greens so early. No, no and again […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!
Tonight’s sourdough pizza greens, all harvested outside after most of the snow disappeared during the day. From the top and clockwise; Ficaria verna (lesser celandine / vårkål), Allium […]
Food
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Slow food at last!
After 11 days of mostly fast food, it was good to get home this evening to a jungle of slow food…. Ingredients: Hablitzia, Rumex acetosa, Rumex patientia, Myrrhis […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium flavescens?
This is a nice new edimental Allium, although its identity is still being discussed by the experts! I received seed of this a few years ago from my […]
Perennials
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Solstice sweet and sour soup greens
Somebody once said that solstice greens are the best…I’d add that solstice perennial greens are even better :) Here’s what I used in tonight’s soup: Sea kale(strandkål), Scorzonera (scorsonnerot), […]