{"id":15008,"date":"2017-11-13T17:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2017-11-13T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:07:48","slug":"new-study-of-old-norwegian-roof-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=15008","title":{"rendered":"New study of old Norwegian roof onions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m just passing the mountain village Otta in Gudbrandsdalen on the train . In 2009, I visited several old farms in this area to witness first-hand the old onion turf roofs still to be found nearby and collect some samples (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=14436\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=14436<\/a>). Norway\u2019s old edible roof gardens are also described in my book Around the World I 80 plants! I recently heard that a botanist, Bj\u00f8rn Harald Larsen, did a thorough field study of the area last year (2016) and made a number of new finds. His report can be downloaded below (with many new pictures!).\u00a0 Bj\u00f8rn Harald has tried to partition his finds of old Allium fistulosum (pipel\u00f8k \/ Welsh onion) in this area as follows: There are now 10 intact roof locations documented of 31 \u00aboriginal known onion roofs\u00bb; 12 intact of 16 finds where plants had been moved \/ planted from older roofs; 2 occurrences where plants have naturalised on dry slopes; a few that have been planted in gardens; and finally two instances where plants seem to originate from other cultivated forms (i.e., plants have a different growth form \u2013 I had also noted this when growing out some of these onions in Malvik).<\/p>\n<p>[gview file=&#8221;http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MU2016-30-Pipel\u00f8k-i-Oppland.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m just passing the mountain village Otta in Gudbrandsdalen on the train . In 2009, I visited several old farms in this area to witness first-hand the old [&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":[24],"tags":[1168,2611,2612,2663,2664,2662,629],"class_list":["post-15008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onions","tag-allium-fistulosum","tag-gudbrandsdalen","tag-otta","tag-pipelok","tag-torvtak","tag-turf-roof","tag-welsh-onion"],"views":4816,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008","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=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15010,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}