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Bonus Day 4 Permaveggies grafting course

May 18, 2016 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

It wasn’t planned at all (the best things aren’t), but our Swedish guests Christian Odberger and Dante Hellstrøm stayed over until Monday evening to dig up a few (!) must-have plants from my garden. Our “camper” Berit Børte also accepted the offer to stay over until Monday. Christian had brought grafting material with him and kindly volunteered to do a grafting course for us, so here are the pictures of Christian, Berit and my garden helper Lorna from Belfast grafting some 6 varieties of apple on to a wild apple tree, the seeds of which I collected at Warsash (on the solent), Hampshire UK some 13-14 years ago!! AND it was a beautiful afternoon too! See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=4617

P1590640 — Lorna taking notes next to my Udo (you can almost see it grow at this time of year!) and ostrich ferns

P1590659 — We discovered that Rheum palmatum, ornamental rhubarb, has a pleasant taste, less acid than common rhubarb!

Course

Permaveggies course Day 1 : Introduction to forest garden design

May 16, 2016 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

I was very glad to have Christian Odberger and Dante Hellström from Stockholm University as guests on this year’s course! They kicked off the course on Friday evening with a 3 hour joint talk on permaculture inspired growing and forest garden design, giving an excellent introduction to the weekend. Inspiring for most of the audience!!
The course was arranged in collaboration with Trondheim sopp- og nyttevekstforeningen and Norsk Permakultur Forening

Salad, Seaweed

Permaveggies course 2016 Day 2

May 16, 2016 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

Despite the very wet and cold start to the day, it was a fun day in my garden, kitchen and foraging along the shoreline with a great bunch of permaveggie lovers! Thanks to all for helping out and particularly my helper Lorna for all her help this week bringing the garden and house up to shape!!