The St. George’s mushrooms (vårfagerhatt) come up every year under the old birch tree next to my sitting place in the garden. They weren’t really growing much more […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Norwegian quinoa and swamp greens medley
13th June 2020 perennial greens were stir-fried and served with quinoa and served with Allium ursinum flowers.Allium validum (swamp or Pacific onion) with flower shootSaxifraga pensylvanica (swamp saxifrage)Gunnera […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Wild “Asparagus” for the king and queen’s 80th birthdays?
I noticed in a recent number (3/2017) of the Norwegian Useful Plants excellent magazine “Sopp og Nyttevekster” a picture on page 41 (picture) accompanying a recipe for “Spring […]
Perennial vegetables
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Jan Lein, northernmost Asparagus pioneer
I was saddened to see in yesterday’s Adressa (local paper) that Trøndelags grand old asparagus farmer has died ☹ As part of my project for the Norwegian Genetic […]
Allotment / Bees / Seed
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Stavanger and around
After my weekend course in Haugaland, member of Norwegian Seed Savers, Tone Lise Østboe kindly showed me around gardens in Stavanger and we also visited Rogaland arboretum outside the […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..
Just before the start of my first course for MAJOBO on Tuesday, I decided to change my first picture to something of local […]