I was surprised a couple of days ago on 16th November to see a chiffchaff (gransanger) flitting about feeding in an apple tree in the garden. I saw […]
Videos
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Recent Videos on my Youtube Channel
Please subscribe to my youtube channel!1. Perennial Edge https://youtu.be/qRsQt_U0Ujo The edges of my annual beds in the garden are not so productive as they are drier because of […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Video tour of my 3 gardens from June 2024
On 17th June 2024 I had a visit from Mihaela Tsarchinsk and Philip Varionov from the Green School Village and Permaculture Association of Bulgaria. We’d met previously at […]
Biodiversity / Butterflies and moths / Insects
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A Blessing in Disguise
During a powerful wind storm earlier in the year one of my oldest sallow / selje trees on the edge of the wild part of the garden was […]
Biodiversity / Butterflies and moths / Insects
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Insect Biodiversity in The Edible Garden
When Covid limited my travelling, I decided to spend my time investigating what other creatures I was sharing my “habitat” (edible forest garden) with. I knew quite a […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Garden tours in Økouka
We’ve opened the garden many times over the last 25 years as part of Økouka (organics week) and before that as part of Økologisk Hagebrukskampanjen (the organic gardening […]
Hagevandring
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Mine Økouka Trøndelag arrangementer 2024
(Note that there will be an extra tour for English speakers on Tuesday)Det blir en travel uke i neste uke for KVANN Trøndelag med hagevandringer i alle mine […]
Salad
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78th Birthday Party Salad
In connection with my daughter Hazel’s birthday yesterday, she wanted me to make a salad for her and her friends she’d invited for dinner, so no birthday cake, […]
Butterflies and moths
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The least scarce moth is the Scarce Silver Y
Back from the UK and the first night I put out the moth trap on 15th / 16th August (they are released again) I was surprised to find […]
Berries / Fruit
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July berries
Various berries harvested late July at home in the Edible Garden and in the Væres Venner Community Garden. More information in the picture captions. These were either eaten […]
Study visit
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Besøk fra (visit from) Arche Noah
Engelsk tekst nederstI løpet av 17.-19. juli var jeg glad for å kunne returnere gjestfriheten gitt av KVANNs søsterorganisasjon Arche Noah (Austrian Seed Savers) under mine 2 turer […]
Edible flowers / Edientomental / Perennial vegetables
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Toad lilies: great edientomentals
Toad lilies (Tricyrtis sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Hagevandring med Malvik Hagelag
Dette var kanskje den 10. gangen Malvik Hagelag hadde vært på hagevandring hos meg, over en snart 40 års periode! Jeg meldte meg inn i hagelaget og var […]
Course / Garden tour / Talks
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The 2023 Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course
The 5th Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course I’ve held in Malvik took place on Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd May with guest Jen McConachie who gave her forest […]
Birds / Magazine article
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Fuglevennlige planter
English: A series of 3 articles written for Birdlife Norway’s magazine “Vår Fuglefauna” Jeg har bestandig vært opptatt av å dyrke mat på en naturvennlig måte. Som unge […]
Perennial vegetables / Tubers / water plants
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Daniil and the duck potatoes
We like to give our helpers /wwoofers an experience to remember. Daniil Titov is with us for two weeks and in between the sleet showers we harvested the […]
Garden tour / Talks / Walk and talk
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Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag
Last week was National Organic Week (Økouka), a busy week for me as I had two garden tours in my Edible Garden in Malvik (the rain stopped both […]
Butterflies and moths
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Fleet of Admirals
The numbers of red admiral butterflies have been building up over the last week and today with my large Buddleja davidii in full flower and warm summer weather, […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Art / Perennial vegetables
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Artist in Residence Elin Eriksen
We’ve had a lovely 3 day visit this last weekend from artist Elin Eriksen from Nesodden starting a project based on my perennial vegetables. She sketched and photographed […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023
Tonight’s perennial vegetables from the garden, used in a stir-fry:Top right and clockwise:Sochan / Cherokee greens tops (Rudbeckia laciniata); Norsk: Kyss-meg-over-gjerde (picture at the bottom)Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) “Skomvær”; […]
Perennial vegetables
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This year’s udo picture!
Presenting this year’s udo (Aralia cordata) almost fully extended 🙂Thanks to Elin Eriksen for the picture (she has been Artist in Residence at the Edible Garden the last […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables
On Tuesday 23rd May I spent a great few hours together with Eva Johansson and Annevi Sjöberg from Sweden in my 3 gardens. They were on a […]
Art Exhibition / Salad / Winter vegetables
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Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium
Being the focus of an art installation wasn’t something I ever imagined, but since February an installation has been exhibited at the Trondheim Art Museum Gråmølna based on […]