Happy Dandy Lions forced in the living room, glad to have been invited into the warmth. Little do they know though that I had a cruel plan to […]
Foraging / Fungi
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The Big Fungi Haul
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Drying / Fungi
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Standing room only!
I’ve already shown that all the windows are full of drying seeds at the moment, now it’s standing room only as the tables and chairs are now full […]
Fungi
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Second Winter Chantarelle Haul
The forest has unlimited supplies of winter chanaterelles (traktkantarell) at the moment, so making the most of it and drying as many as we can! They’re now much […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Laying down winter chanterelle supplies
It was a busy weekend picking our winter supplies of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) in the forest. This abundant species is mycorrhizal, associated in Norway with spruce, usually in […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Fungi / Legumes
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Runner Bean harvest
As I wrote earlier, it looks like we may have a glut of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) this year, the first time for many years. Runner beans are […]
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 […]
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; […]
Drying / Fungi
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October Chantarelles
This week, somewhere in Trøndelag, we stumbled on a large number of chantarelles (kantarell). The aim of the trip was to pick winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) for drying. Imagine […]
Fungi / walks
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Walk and forage to Tripynten
Friday’s forage (11th October 2019) was combined with a walk to the top of Tripynten (315m). Please let me know if you can ID any of the fungi! […]
Fungi
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Fungi at Gevingåsen
After finding large quantities of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) the day before within a few hundred metres of our start point, it was very surprising to find only a […]
Fungi
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Winter chantarelle picking
The most reliable edible fungi here is winter chantarelle (traktkantarell). Only once in my over 30 years of picking this has it failed. The second part of October […]
Article
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2002 Norwegian Article on Ostrich Fern
An article in Norwegian about my first experiences with ostrich fern (strutseving). From the magazine of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society, Våre Nyttevekster (Our Useful Plants). Link to […]
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 […]
Food
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Curry on the stove
I like to cook on the wood burning stove in winter…here’s a scene from the preparation of last night’s home grown veggie curry with Basella, Swiss chard, the […]