{"id":13968,"date":"2017-09-28T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=13968"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:05:21","slug":"having-permafun-in-porsgrunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=13968","title":{"rendered":"Having permafun in Porsgrunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Nesodden (family visit) after two great days celebrating \u00f8kouka (national organic week) in Porsgrunn! Thanks to Gunn Marit and Anne Sofie for inviting me and for all the great folks that attended, several of which were members of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers). On Wednesday evening I gave a 90min + talk about KVANN and perennial veggies, followed by the official opening of Porsgrunn Seed Library (with my Hablitzia &#8211; stjernemelde) seed being the first donation. Then, on Thursday morning, I gave a course on perennial veggies to a group in the newly restored Eidanger vicarage in which the Eidanger CSA (moved here this year from another site) has a room, including half an hour looking at wild and garden plants in the old rectory garden! A great mix of folks, it was particularly pleasing that two young students had travelled down from B\u00f8 i Telemark to learn more about perennial vegetables! It was also good to see the leader of the \u00c5rhus CSA scheme Tove and the new gardener Katrine in attendance! I&#8217;d met Tove on that memorable life-changing visit to \u00c5rhus 5 years ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=13690\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=13690<\/a>). There are lots of exciting sustainable developments and initiatives in Porsgrunn and I also talked to a guy with plans of converting an old farm to a forest garden. Great also to meet a newly arrived American wwoofer who had travelled south from Engel\u00f8ya (Steigen) where she&#8217;d been working for my friend Eva Bakkeslett\u200b (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=172\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=172<\/a>0 about my 2015 visit to Engel\u00f8ya). For this reason, the course was in English!! Eidanger is destined to become a centre of vegetable diversity in the future with such a great group of visionary folk and a lot of land to work with!<br \/>\nSee also this aerial view of the Porsgrunn CSA at the Eidanger Presteg\u00e5rd: <a href=\"https:\/\/scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/20863217_10214875018217539_4042211065793829304_o.jpg?oh=014f038146772c9a50993319a5a1c027&amp;oe=5A546BFA\">https:\/\/scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/20863217_10214875018217539_4042211065793829304_o.jpg?oh=014f038146772c9a50993319a5a1c027&amp;oe=5A546BFA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Nesodden (family visit) after two great days celebrating \u00f8kouka (national organic week) in Porsgrunn! Thanks to Gunn Marit and Anne Sofie for inviting me and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,99,1355,19],"tags":[2575,2579,2578,2544,2574,2576,2577,858,2573,857],"class_list":["post-13968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course","category-garden-tour","category-perennial-vegetables","category-permaculture","tag-andelsgard","tag-arhus-andelsgard","tag-bo","tag-community-supported-agriculture","tag-csa","tag-eidanger","tag-eidanger-prestegard","tag-engeloya","tag-porsgrunn","tag-steigen"],"views":4824,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14002,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968\/revisions\/14002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}