Tom Strubreiter is my host up here in St. Koloman (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=11483). He picked me up at the station on Thursday and took me up to his mountain farm where he’s doing important work conserving rare breeds of farm animals that are much better adapted to local conditions and that rarely need visits by the vet! He showed me around his amazing ecostructure that he calls his Noah’s Ark that he is constructing … I spent the day botanising in the species rich alpine meadows and swam in the Seewardsee! Couldn’t be better
Tom Strubreiter has worked for preserving traditional old races of farm animals for some 15 years, and is building his very own “Arche” out of local materials including larch and Pinus cembra and using local craftsmen, an impressive ecostructure at around 1,000m! I will send him some Norwegian roof onions, the only part missing!
Seewardsee…..23C in the water, there’s nothing like swimming with yellow water lily maidens in an alpine lake! :)
My hotel, Alpenrose
View from the hotel!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
