I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious […]
Birds
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Goldfinches on the Veranda
Success!! The local flock of overwintering goldfinches (stillits) have found the food I’ve grown on the veranda! I grow burdock (borre) as a root vegetable in a large […]
Birds
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Bullfinch feeding on Guelder Rose
Bullfinches (dompap) feed on a wide range of natural foods in winter from the seeds of berries like rowan to maple and nettle seeds and shoots and buds […]
Salad
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Mid-January Salad
In connection with Cathrine Kramer’s (Centre for Genomic Gastronomy) third visit to Malvik from her base in Amsterdam to make an around the year artistic film of The […]
Trees
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Goat willow “rotvelt”
In the wild part of the garden, one of my goat willow (selje) trees, important for the garden’s biodiversity, is halfway down after yesterday’s storm 🙁 This is […]
Sun
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Yearbreak? Break of Year? Crack of Year?
Not sure what to call the first sunrise of the year, but as long as there are no clouds it happens on 11th January every year here. I’m […]
Seed / Seed Saving / Self Sufficiency
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
Birds
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Goldfinch on snow-covered burdock
Goldfinches are experts at neither getting burrs attached to them nor a face full of snow when feeding as here on burdock (borre) in the garden (filmed from […]
Snow
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Snow, snow and more snow
It’s good to be a pensioner when the weather is like it’s been recently with three in a row heavy snowfalls and probably the most snow I’ve experienced […]
Food
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Dandy Lion Quiche
Happy Dandy Lions forced in the living room, glad to have been invited into the warmth. Little do they know though that I had a cruel plan to […]