As I’ve acknowledged in various other posts from my spring 2016 study tour to Japan I am forever grateful to Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark for organising […]
Perennial vegetables
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Mountain cultivation of Udo in Nagano
On 9th April 2016 I was staying with my new friend Tei Kobayashi in the mountains in a lovely village, Nogura, above Ueda in Nagano Prefecture. I was […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Japanese Sansai in March
Almost exactly 5 years ago this week I was on a study tour to Japan to look at Sansai production. I’m doing a webinar talk about the trip […]
Arctic Gardening / Garden tour / Mountain Gardening
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Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres
Følgende artikkel ble først publisert i KVANNs Nyhetsbrev #9 fra desember 2018 . English: An article about Anders Nordrum’s Beredskapshagen (Preparedness-garden) in the Norwegian mountains in Valdres (see […]
Perennial vegetables
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Forsøk med flerårige grønnsaker i fjellet
English summary: We believe that we could grow a lot more food in the Arctic and Norwegian Mountains buy using perennials rather than annuals. These are the first […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Forest Gardening / Tempura
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Shidoke
On my trip to Japan in spring 2016, I found shidoke (シドケ / Parasenecio delphiniifolia syn. Cacalia delphiniifolia) leaves on sale in a supermarket in Ueda, Japan. This […]