On Thursday this week we went for a forage locally as I’d heard reports that chantarelles were appearing after the rain….we didn’t see any edible fungi but there were large quantities of bilberries (blåbær), wild raspberries and even a bog where there were unpicked cloudberries, so we transferred our attentions to picking berries!
We started the walk from Fjølstadtrøa, a restored husmannsplass (croft) (we had met the last husmann and his wife back in the 80s!)
The local historical society has restored the buildings and a local school has made a vegetable garden here!
Nice to see broad beans (bondebønner), here with kale..
Catawissa (walking) onion (etasjeløk)
Beetroot (rødbete)
Herbs
Hops
Admiral
Gul korallsopp? (coral fungus)
Gul korallsopp? (coral fungus)
Creeping twinflower (Linnea)
Cowberry (tyttebær)
Cow-wheat seed (marimjelle)
This hoverfly (blomsterflue) fed on my bilberry stained finger!
I neither use sugar nor do I have a freezer. My favourite way of preserving fruit is drying and the quickest way of drying fruit in an oven is by making fruit leather…simply boil the fruit to sterilise and mashing as you boil, then pour into an oven tray and dry for a few hours at about 40C!
Have just finished a batch of redcurrants (rips) and raspberries (bringebær). The raspberries were both wild red raspberries, an old Norwegian yellow (gulbringebær) and a cultivar “White Russian”
See last year’s blog on raspberry / bilberry leather here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=13187
12th August Added pictures of leather made from cloudberries, bilberries and wild raspberries!
A nice walk at Vennafjellet just over the border in Selbu kommune on Monday! We started at Svendalstjørna,walked over to the old seter (mountain farm) at Engavollen and back via the top of Faseknipen.
Walked up from Svendalstjørna, seen below here
Yellow water lilies
Molte (cloudberry) were ripe, but not many to be found!
Molte (cloudberry)
Molte (cloudberry)
A common hawker dragonfly patrolling
Heather (lyng) in full flower
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On the way down to Engtjørna, the boundary over to Malvik kommune goes through the lake!
Engavollen seter
Engavollen seter
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) growing on the turf roof
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) growing on the turf roof
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum)
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) was an important edible berry for Arctic peoples
A club moss
Alpine lady’s mantle (Alchemilla alpina), also on the roof!
Willows on this roof!
Clouds can give interesting effects!
Sitting down for lunch, an Arran Brown (fløyelsesringvinge) was patrolling a spruce tree near us!
…and this common hawker dragonfly landed in the same tree..
…and this common hawker dragonfly landed in the same tree..
My first bilberries of the year (blåbær)
There were a few fungi, including this Russula spp
