Edible & ornamental
Thank you so much Alys Fowler!!! She has apparently been “trailing round the house with my copy (of ATW), unable to put it down.” :-D http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/24/alys-fowler-norwegian-edible-garden Here’s a […]
For the unusual vegetable enthusiast, the place to find seed are the alpine garden clubs’ seed exchanges: Scottish Rock Garden Club (SRGC), Alpine Garden Society (AGS) and the […]
While I was in London in December I met London Permaculture’s Stefan Geyer at St. Athan’s Hotel in London for a chat and it’s now available for all […]
An excerpt from the book is on page 55 of the latest Permaculture Magazine :) Post Views: 148
The PDF version is now available through Green Shopping and you can download a free sample!! ATW from Green Shopping The Kindle and iTunes versions are also on the […]
Thanks very much to Joan Lambert Bailey for the nice remarks and great review! Yes, you’re absolutely right when you say “I am convinced this book is his […]
SEE THE NEW SEED LIST Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2014-15. 12, 13 and 14 in brackets indicates the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
My garlic bulbils are on the way up in my living room, sown densely a week ago….soon time to harvest the winter’s first garlic sprouts :) Variety: Estonian […]
An Interview with the Extreme Salad Man Stephen Barstow at www.Shoreditchradio.co.uk on Sunday 18 January at 20:00 UTC This is an interview I did in London with London Permaculture’s Stefan […]
14 years ago and my seed list had some 1,000 entries and I even added a usage code (from Plants for a Future)……… Edible and Useful Plant Seed […]
Still a week before the sun returns here in Malvik and we leave the tunnel…today’s 20 variety salad harvested today from the living room and cellar! Carrots, chicories, […]
I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article http://whyfiles.org/2012/farming-native-american-style looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems: “There were […]
The ATW selfie is going viral worldwide…. ;) Send me yours and it will be added…you will be showing support of a very good cause: the conservation and […]
The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. They were not interested and […]
I’ve eaten vegan food for Xmas for over 30 years and it’s always nut roast and a diversity of colourful tubers from all over the world! The seeds […]
Hablitzia (the Caucasian Spinach) and Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) are both shade tolerant perennials one an edible and the other an important medicinal, so not unlikely that they […]
The coffee plant is a fantastic edimental indoor plant that tolerates quite low temperatures in winter….but don’t expect more than a cup of coffee a year :) Coffee […]
My book is released today by Amazon in the US….and it’s “Temporarily out of stock” I presume that’s good news :) Visit to Chelsea Green in White River […]
There are 8 pages in my book devoted to this, one of my all time favourite perennial vegetables, Hablitzia tamnoides. I prefer just to call it Hablitzia or […]
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) is a short day plant from the Andes which produces next to nothing outside here as the plants are usually killed by the first hard […]
I tonight sowed various perennial edibles I found and collected seed of in the woods near Woodstock, Vermont while visiting a friend and my US distributors Chelsea Green […]
During my talks I make the suggestion that although there are justifiably invasive unwanted species in our part of the world, there are many “black-listed” plants in my […]
A Norwegian article from Trondheim’s street magazine Sorgenfri in 2013 about foraging locally here in Malvik for Ostrich Fern, a plant which few people realise is edible and […]
An interview in connection with my book and forthcoming talk was published in our local newspaper on 13th December 2014. Here it is, in Norwegian of course… [gview […]
The distributor who has worked to arrange interviews this week while I’m in the UK didn’t mention I’m a local Hampshire lad. Nevertheless BBC Radio Solent in Southampton and Hilliers […]