3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I took a flowery salad along. One of the other participants, Svanhild Anita Vågsvær, contacted me a few weks back as she was getting married, remembered the salad and wanted something similar at her wedding! Would I sell her some tasty edible flowers? Of course she could have some! Late the evening before the wedding, groom Christian Berg arrived and we picked a good selection! The pictures show the salad put together by their chef with goat cheese, caper vinaigrette and foccacia! Congratulations!
Last week 15 years ago, the extreme salad man was created…and he is upset that Facebook completely missed this event…so let’s make up for it in this thread, please leave your gree(n)tings :)
Ably supported by this week’s garden helper Josefine Marie Dichmann from Odense in Denmark, and another of a stream of quality ex-students from Fosen Folkehøgskole, a salad of some 140 ingredients was put together in about an hour last night with marigold petals forming ESM’s age!
Josefine Marie Dichmann shows off the birthday salad with that view (ESM was too shy to be photographed, hair turning green already at 15)
Assembling the salad
Josefine’s ingredients notes!
Only two pictures of the “half-eaten” 2001 salad have been found so far!
Only two pictures of the “half-eaten” 2001 salad have been found so far!
The moment I discovered my lust for devouring flowers. Rarotonga, the Cook Islands, November 1989 ;) More here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3903
The last day of the Danish permaveggies course in Malvik and we ended mixing and decorating a 191 ingredient salad, probably the 4th largest of all time :)
My latest garden helper is Daina Binde from Latvia (recently: UK) and has impressed me by her plant knowledge! Like my last helper Lorna Marie O’Lynn, she was recommended to me by Mount Stewart’s (Northern Ireland) wonderful Mr Neil Porteous!! Anyone recommended by Neil can stay here :)
She was joined by Martina who discovered permaculture through working for 6 months on farms in New Zealand. The girls decorated tonight’s permadiversity salad!
Well, not only Mandy’s plot, a group of local people in Ashburton, Devon got together to buy The Field a few years ago to grow vegetables communally! It is truly an inspiration to see how productive what was sheep pasture can actually be!! We need much more of this and I’m imagining the hills around covered in Andean tuber crops in a few years from now rather than sheep!!
It was great to meet you all and a big bonus that Owen and good lady made the journey up from Cornwall to join us!!
More pictures in the album below!
See Mandy’s blog of my visit here: http://www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/stephen-barstow-visit/
Just a few weekend shots from the garden and kitchen during a hard working gardening weekend with my helper, Kia from Fosen Folkehøgskole
Lunch – red tongue salad ;) with Allium zebdanense, Viola canadensis, Barbarea vulgaris, Claytonia sibirica and Viola pubescens (yellow) flowersMy Clintonia borealis or bluebead lily is now forming a nice clump….next spring I will test eat the young shoots!Flowering Rheum moorcroftianum, Moorcroft’s rhubarb grows at 4,500 to 5,300m in China and other mountain ranges from China to Tajikistan including NepalMolopospermum peloponnesiacum has a disappointingly unpleasant taste….Allium victorialis “Anja” is one of my Lofoten victory onions / seiersløk, seemingly snaking its way through the garden….
On 13th August I’ll be doing an edible wander at Grennessminde, the organic nursery just outside of Copenhagen. A large number of edible flowers are also produced here for Michelin restaurant NOMA. I popped in for a quick look on Tuesday with project leader Aiah Noack who is also (together with Naturplanteskolen) organising a trip from Denmark and Southern Sweden to my garden around 15th – 19th July! There are still some places available!
Red mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica)WatercressEdible flowers, MalvaEdible flowers, OxalisEdible flowers, FuchsiaEdible flowers, OxalisAllium fistulosumRumex acetosa “Abundance” (non-flowering form)Lepidium latifolium – Nordic wasabi :)Cochlearia (scurvy grass)Variegated ground elder (Aegopodium podograria variegata)Aster scaber, Korea asterAster scaber, Korea asterPink-flowered dandelion, Taraxacum pseudoroseumAllium cernuum, Chicago onionAllium hookeri, Hooker’s onionCanada violet, Viola canadensisAtriplex hortensis “Aurea” / Golden orachAllium “Summer Beauty”Rumex patientia, patience dockAllium fistulosumFragaria “Lipstick”Fragaria “Lipstick”Grennessminde fantasy lunch!Grennessminde fantasy lunch!
On 2nd May 2016 I finally got to visit Camilla Plum and Fuglebjerggaard. Camilla is one of Scandinavia’s best known authors and broadcasters on edible gardening and cooking. It was such a beautiful day that the formal talk was abandoned in favour of an edible tour of the organic nursery and farm lead by myself and Camilla. A great crowd of knowledgeable folk, some of whom had travelled quite a long way including one couple from Norway! Thanks for inviting me Camilla!! A great place and many must-have plants :)
Camilla in front of a large bed of emerging Ostrich Ferns which were obviously thriving in this open location as shoots were popping up in the grass around the bed!
Wool mulchPerennial kalesOne of the 80 in my book is Allium obliquum, twistedleaf garlic from Siberia! I’d never seen it growing on this scale before.This form of Allium obliquum had beautiful purple stems and was also on sale on the nursery.NurseryEdible perennialsWhat was happening here? Camilla had asked staff to go down into this swampy pit to collect rhizomes and young shoots of a plant known in North America as the Supermarket of the swamps… Harvesting salad ingredients :)Large selection of chilis!Large selection of chilis!Yellow flowered Allium moly is a great edible onion for partiual shade in the forest garden! Not often you see this one on sale, although supermarket chain Lidl were selling bulbs this autumn!Hop clones after Danish breeder Øyvind Winge, now made available in the nursery. I remember seeing these in the hop collection at Årslev…DAHLIAS!Hop-Asparagus!Perennial kales…and Lathyrus tuberosusScorzoneraTulbaghia or Society Garlic from South AfricaWonderful lunch with ostrich fern, fried dandelion flower buds with salt and a lovely salad with tulip petals!Mushroom plant, Rungia klossii from Papua New Guinea is a novel salad plant
Despite the very wet and cold start to the day, it was a fun day in my garden, kitchen and foraging along the shoreline with a great bunch of permaveggie lovers! Thanks to all for helping out and particularly my helper Lorna for all her help this week bringing the garden and house up to shape!!
Dante Hellström and the salad!!8 wonderful ladies in my kitchen :) It’s obvious why I organise these courses :)Salad ingredient listAnother wonderful group of course participants plus special guests Christian Odberger and Dante Hellström from SwedenSampling beach edibles Aster tripolium, Triglochin maritima and Plantago maritima which all grow together here!Christian Odberger was the first to try my home produced sugar cane :)Christian Odberger was the first to try my home produced sugar cane :)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
