For Xmas dinner 2007, I made nut roast with roast vegetables including two members of the Basellaceae family (known as the Madeira vine family). It contains the following genus: Anredera, Basella, Ullucus and plantlist.org also assigns Tournonia hookeriana (previously Basella) to the same family.
I also cooked some Basella alba (malabar or ceylon spinach) greens to serve with the dinner.
Is this the only time all 3 main members of the Basellaceae have been served together? ;)
Harvested some of my bedside Basella greens tonight for a stir-fry with garlic, chili, chicory, parsley, dried chantarelle, broad beans and perilla…. served with soba (organic buckwheat noodles). Basella is perennial but I’ve never managed to overwinter it…
A few pictures from this weekend’s course on perennial vegetables based on my book for Haugaland sopp- og nyttevekstforening (Haugaland useful plant society). I gave two 4 hour talks on Saturday and Sunday, but still had to skip a few plants….
Thanks to Gro Hetland for inviting me!
It’s the 23rd day in a row without rain here and this could be the last one…..and sunrises have been beautiful most days!
Back home from my visit to south western Norway and this is probably THE autumn of all autumns I will ever experience here…..high pressure weather with clear skies for 3 weeks, record number of sun-hours in any month ever and little wind to blow the leaves off the trees…the autumn colours keep going and going, so here’s an album of leaf pictures, all taken today 25th October 2016…
After my weekend course in Haugaland, member of Norwegian Seed Savers, Tone Lise Østboe kindly showed me around gardens in Stavanger and we also visited Rogaland arboretum outside the city and also a producer of bumble bees for the greenhouse industry!
Thanks very much Tone Lise :)
On 10th June 2014, journalist Hilde Østmoe, with photographer Terje Visnes, interviewed me for regional newspaper Adresseavisen’s Saturday magazine UkeAdressa. It was for a special extended article about urban growing!
I had hoped this post would be ready before Terje Visnes’ exhibition this week in Trondheim, but I just missed the “deadline”. I don’t know if one of these photos were used as I also couldn’t make it to the exhibition at the last minute! I remember being impressed by his work that day!
…and Terje made this wonderful animated picture of the salad ingredients….if you hover with your mouse over the picture the (Norwegian) names will appear: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/536181539210264576
The final article can be downloaded here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Adressa_Spiselige.pdf
My first ever blog post was also featuring this salad on June 29 2014: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=43
Below are pictures I took during the photo shoot in my garden!
For an Arctic ethnobotanical garden, I’m looking for seed of the following species used for food by native peoples of Alaska!
Angelica lucida
Arabis lyrata ssp kamtchatica
Claytonia acutifolia
Claytonia eschscholtzii
Claytonia ogilviensis
Claytonia sarmentosa
Claytonia scammaniana
Claytonia tuberosa
Plantago macrocarpum
Ranunculus lapponicus
Rumex arcticus
Saxifraga nelsoniana
Saxifraga punctata
Senecio congestus
Taraxacum carneocoloratum
Another in a row of rainless sunny days. It’s now 2 weeks since it rained and no rain is forecast for the next 10 days. Grass and heather fire warnings are now in force, very unusual here…winter droughts seem to be on the increase…
10 years ago, I wouldn’t have believed it was possible to harvest elderberries here, but with the new Danish cultivars which are both early, hardy and with large berries this album shows the result…The cultivars shown are Samyl and Samnor!
They are now drying above my wood stove..
