It’s ridiculous but it’s been such a busy summer that I hadn’t found time for foraging mushrooms in the forest this year until last Saturday 12th October. We […]
Drying / Foraging / Fungi
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Forest bounty
Spending so much time in the 3 gardens I look after – The Edible Garden; The World and Demonstration Gardens at Væres Venner Community Garden and the Allium […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sochan tops Mediterranean style
Thanks to Alan Bergo (@foragerchef) for reminding me to try sochan tops. This is Rudbeckia laciniata (cut-leafed coneflower) which in the double form is one of the most […]
Fungi
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Porcini in abundance
At last, after the warm summer the porcinis (ceps / steinsopp; Boletus edulis) are coming up in large numbers in the woods, the best year since 2005! I’d […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Fungal abundance
The forest is now full of edible fungi, witness today’s haul of mostly chantarelles, winter chantarelle, hedgehog fungi (two species) and puffballs (Norw: kantarell, traktkantarell, lys- og rødgule-piggsopp […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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JA Quiche
Jerusalem artichokes (JAs / jordskokk) in quiche? Why not?Yesterday’s quiche included JAs, Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde), Aegopodium podograria (ground elder / skvallerkål), dandelion (løvetann), rehydrated dried […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Winter chantarelles / Traktkantareller
Earlier in October, we found a place with a large amount of chantarelles (kantarell); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=23655). We noticed that there were also a lot of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell; […]
Fungi
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That Chantarelle Moment
That special moment each year when you see the first large group of chantarelles in the woods! Used in a delicious green wholegrain spelt pasta sauce with Malva […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Sopptur 16th November
(Sopptur = Mushroom picking / fungal foray) Still masses of winter chantarelle in the woods despite for frosts a week ago…and a few chantarelle and hedgehog fungus…. Post […]
Foraging / Fruit / Fungi
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Forage in Malvikmarka
A productive afternoon in the woods yesterday on the Malvik side of Solemsvåttan with my Swiss helper Julia Albrecht with a good haul of bilberries and the year’s […]
Fungi
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Productive morning in the woods
I was surprised to find so many chantarelle and winter chantarelle in the woods this morning. It’s pretty dry here now in this unusually warm late September weather…so […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Nut trees / walks / Wild Edibles
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Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling
Documentation of yet another amazing day during last week’s Perennialen III in Hardanger!! Pictures taken on a fantastic 6-7 hour round trip from Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege […]
Cycling / Fungi
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Bike ride to the shops at Sveberg
For a change I cycled to the shops at Sveberg rather than cycling to town…this also gave me the opportunity to check out the fungi in the woods… […]
Birds / Fungi
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Long cycle forage to the shops
As I was working from home yesterday and not doing my normal bike ride, I decided to do a longer ride over the hills to the post office […]
Berries / Fungi
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Fungi 26th August 2016
It was actually bilberries that were the evening’s objective, but when you see several ceps / steinsopp in the woods and hedgehogs/piggsopp and saffron milk caps / matriske […]
Food
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Barl-ryotto
Last night’s dinner: risotto made with rye and barley grain instead of rice with wild and cultivated vegetables and wild fungi: Parsley, coriander, golpar (Heracleum maximum seed spice), […]