Pictures from a great day last Sunday in the company of a great group of permaculture interested folks from Oikos Nord Trøndelag (Oikos = Organic Norway)
We started in my garden in Malvik at 10:30, then travelled north to Johannes Moen’s place just south of Steinkjer, stopping on the way to collect some fertility and for a swim in Leksdalsvatnet! I got home by train at 11:30 pm!
The day started with a tour around my garden
We stopped in Stiklestad on a farm which had been run organically since about 1990 to pick up horse muck for the perennial garden we were to create in the evening!
Not a plant I see often in this area, Stachys palustris was growing on the farm…it has edible tubers..I also found it growing at Hurdal Ecovillage last week and will dig some next time I visit…
On the way north, we stopped off for a swim at the north end of Leksdalsvatnet, one of the best lakes for birds in our area, including little gull (dvergmåke) and great crested grebe (toppdykker/ https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toppdykker), which I spotted from the car!
The swimming area…
I found another rare plant in this area, Alisma plantago-aquatica (vassgro / greater water plantain), when I was out swimming :) I’ve never been convinced to try eating it. This is the entry in Cornucopia II: “The bulb-like bases are eaten after being dried to rid them of their acrid properties”. According to pfaf.org, “the seed is said to promote sterility. By contrast it is also said to promote conception ” ;)
The Alisma locality was on the other side of the water
…and another rare plant, Thalictrum flavum I think, right next to where we sat
…and another rare plant, Thalictrum flavum I think, right next to where we sat
The last stop was at Johannes Moen’s strange house just south of Steinkjer..built by his dad in concrete, it had been designed to have glass sides in which plants could be grown, but it was sadly never completed…Johannes and his brother are living here now and making improvements
Johannes Moen tells us about the house
The original family home
They have been insulating the walls
Scything demonstration on the area we were to convert to a new permaveggie garden!
Participants learning the age old technique of bastard digging which I taught them (I learned this technique back in the 80s from one of John Seymour’s books and dug my own garden by hand in this way! It is surprisingly quick, this area only taking two people about an hour or so…after which we could plant straight away…with this technique, the top spit of soil ends up two spits down an upside down!
Veggie soup and blueberry pie for dinner by a bonfire of birch and “høymole/Northern Dock (Rumex longifolius)” which was also being burned at Hurdal last week ;)
Planting up the bed with plants we’d brought with us from Malvik…
The plants include Hablitizia, Malva moschata, Caraway (Karve), various onions including Allium cernuum, A. scorodoprasum, A.fistulosum, A. schoenoprasum “Major”, Cryptotaenia canadensis, Viola canadensis, Ligularia sachalinensis (by mistake, I thought it was L. fischeri) etc.
Tour to the tower on top of the house!
Views over the surrounding agricultural land
…but forest surrounds one side of the property
I took the train back home from Sparbu
…and a beautiful journey it is along the side of Trondheimsfjord!
Salicornia (marsh samphire/salturt) grow on the mudflats in this picture
Permakultur Grunnkurs (PDC) Trondheim/Malvik , 3 helger sommer/høst 2017
Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) in Trondheim/Malvik over 3 weekends this summer/autumn
See also https://www.facebook.com/events/808432835979618/
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The reason for my trip to Canada in March / April 2017 was because I was invited by Jean-Martin Fortier to visit and give a talk and discuss perennial vegetables at La Ferme des Quatre Temps, an amazing farm near Hemmingford, Quebec (south of Montreal and near the US border). Jean-Martin is well-known for his book “The Market Gardener” which has sold more than 80,000 copies! This album of pictures gives my impression of my short visit on the farm in very early spring, where a whole area is devoted to trialling permaveggies for the market, the best commercial operation I’ve seen! Thanks for the invite Jean-Martin!
This is the Wikipedia entry on the farm: “In the fall of 2015, Fortier was recruited by André Desmarais, Deputy Chairman, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation and son of Paul Desmarais Sr, to design and operate a model farm, La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, on a 167 acres property in Hemmingford, Quebec. The mission of the farm is to demonstrate how diversified small-scale farms, using regenerative and economically efficient agricultural practices, can produce a higher nutritional quality of food and more profitable farms. The farm consists of four acres of vegetable production; sixty acres of animal grazing rotation including beef, pigs and chickens, ten acres of fruit orchards, a culinary laboratory for processing and creating original products and a huge greenhouse to produce vegetables throughout the year. The principles of permaculture were applied to ensure ecosystem balance: flowers were planted, ponds were dug to accommodate frogs and birdhouses were built to naturally control the proliferation of pests. Ten bee hives have also been installed on the property to promote pollination and mobile chicken coops allow hens to roam from one pasture to another to feed the worms in manure from cows.”
I was picked up in Montreal by one of Mr. Desmarais’ chauffers. Here we are approaching Hemmingford (wise to remember to turn off just before the US border…)
Chauffeur driven car
The driver wasn’t sure where to go and asked at Mr. Desmarais’ on-site house first.
Jean-Martin Fortier
The lecture was in this building..
I gave a short Around the World talk before lunch to staff, contractors and wwoofers…
Jonathan Pineault introduced the work on growing permaveggies for sale at the farm!
Each plant had a nicely set out slide with information relevant to marketing! Here is Hablitzia!
The permagardens were already looking good, note the nest boxes!
?, Jonathan Pineault and Alexandre Guertin (from Écomestible, www.ecomestible.com, who were contracted to the permaculture on the farm!) FB friend Carmen Porter, second from the right had kindly offered a place to stay locally and also showed me around the next day (more later)
Jonathan Pineault and ? with skirret :)
Cattails (but not planted with food in mind)
Perennial plantings
Horseradish I think…
Tour of the greenhouses…
There were lots of birds on the farm…here a distant belted kingfisher I think…
Insect hotel
What was the story behind this? A deviant scarecrow?
Red-winged blackbird
…and even Killdeers on open ground on the farm (NB! the strange name killdeer is from the bird’s kill-deer call ;) )
I’m visiting Hurdal Ecovillage again this weekend, so thought I would post this album of pictures from the Nordic Permaculture Festival held there in August 2013! https://www.facebook.com/events/219614368452015/
More can be found by following these two links:
http://naviana.blogg.no/1378933789_nordisk_permakulturfe.htm l
http://www.kulturverk.com/2013/08/16/permakulturfestivalen-i-hurdal/
My home during the festival…
Eivind Permakulturdesigner Bjørkavåg preaching hugelbeds
Hugel bed takes form
Johan Swärd talked about old grains including Svedjerugen, yes this rye, an integral part of the slash and burn agriculture practised by the Svedje-Finns, is really this tall!
Svedjerug straw!
The barn where I gave my talk!
The festival produced most of its veggies on-site!
The organisers!
Prestegården from 1837 is part of the Ecovillage! I had a look in the garden for old garden edimentals!
Prestegårdshagen
Hazel is hardy here!
Ludwig Appeltans and Suzanne de Waard of Earth Ways turned out to be fairly close neighbours to Teeny Weeny Farm in Forres where I was staying in September 2016. I’d followed Ludwig on Facebook for some time and was therefore happy to be invited over to see their place! It became clear that their hearts weren’t fully into their piece of land due to “circumstances” and that they were looking for somewhere new to really develop their ideas and run permaculture courses. It turned out that they had a secret as plans were already advanced and a few weeks later they would be moving to the Rubha Phoil Forest Gardens, on Skye (Armadale within walking distance of the Mallaig ferry!), a big loss for Forres….. I wish them good luck and hope to visit them there in the next couple of years (I have a special relationship with Skye and the Inner Hebrides from the time I lived in Scotland)!
I wish I’d taken notes on the day as I’ve forgotten some of the details…hopefully Ludwig Appeltans will add some comments to the pictures
Read more about Earth Ways here: https://www.earth-ways.co.uk/about
Tour of the gardens, followed by the running ducks!
Great to see a good sized Hablitzia here too! It turned out I sent Ludwig seed back in 2012 after he’d read my Permaculture Magazine article…
Diversity
Giant plantains (Plantago major)
Ludwig and Suzanne wrote an article about their brilliant polytunnel in Permaculture Magazine, in particular their simple water harvesting and hydroponic system. See https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how-design-and-build-self-watering-polytunnel
Harvesting rainwater :)
Harvesting rainwater :)
This hole was just to show what the soil was like: easy to dig
Tamworth pigs
A large Fuchsia magellanica in full flower and with tasty fruits witnesses the mildness of the climate here!
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After Ariane Burgess had showed me round the Edible Woodland Garden, I’d been invited to lunch by Craig Gibsone, one of the elders of Findhorn having been involved with the Findhorn Foundation for well over 40 years! He had also been at my talk the night before at the Tiny Weeny Farm, and he seemed familiar as I’d seen a Youtube interview with him (see the link above) some time ago! Craig was born in Australia but considers Findhorn to be his spiritual home. He is a multi-talented teacher, potter, painter, musician, gardener and permaculturist….and it was a real pleasure too to be in his company for a couple of hours! For more, see the picture gallery below!
At my talk at Tiny Weeny Farm, Craig is on the left!
Pots for sale with honesty box at the entrance to Craig’s place
Craig lives in one of the wonderful barrel house, made from recycled Douglas Fir whisky barrels built in the 1920s and used in local distilleries until the 1980s!
Tour of Craig’s garden…
His garden is a fantastic ecological oasis in the middle of Findhorn which otherwise struck me as mostly rather sterile…Craig is aware of this and said that he wished they could turn back the clock and replant Findhorn with useful and edible trees etc.
He told me that most people that visit consider his garden as a bit of a mess and that he’s lost control! However, he had created the garden for himself and wildlife. He told me that he enjoyed my visit as I could SEE! Yacon on either side of the path with sweet cicely , fennel , Jerusalem artichokes, sweet cirn and various edible bushes and trees!
Yacon!
Horseradish and much more
Wonderful!
A bay tree!
Diversity
Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) sap is a powerful medicinal plant
Pond for wildlife
I even left with a new Allium…this one (Allium senescens?) was rather nice!
Jerusalem artichoke in full flower
Yes, I really loved Craig’s garden, permaculture in action!!
In Craig’s studio, the basil plantation…
Poppy seed
I was invited to have a look around as Craig finished cooking the lunch!
…and a fantastic lunch too with cheese and wine!! I think I was in paradise….
…and there were Norway connections in Craig’s house, here a greeting from Hurdal Ecovillage in 2003…I believe they came to Findhorn to get inspiration!
…and Craig had written a book together with our very own Permaculture guru Jan Bang: Permaculture – A Spiritual Approach book release….and opening at a random page, my friend Helene tells her story!
After lunch, Craig took me for a quick wander through the community
Finally, Cullerne Gardens is where the vegetales are grown communally. This was a bit disappointing, too much reliance on plastic and too little permaculture in my opinion…https://www.findhorn.org/cullerne-garden/
…and here Craig left me…I carried on into Findhorn village and sand dunes before cycling back to Dyke. Thanks, mate!
Benjamin Bro-Jørgensen , who together with Irja Frydenlund have started an edible perennials nursery in Tingvoll, Norway, was profiled in today’s Adresseavisen (Hjem magazine) in an article “Den evige hagen” (the eternal garden). Wow, Permaculture and perennial vegetables in my local paper! Well done! Apparently, it is also published in Bergenstidende :)
Alvastien Telste is Norway’s first LAND project (LAND officially started up in Norway yesterday) located on a side arm of the Hardangerfjord in beautiful surroundings…this was my next stop on my short tour of Western Norway. This little film (shot unknown to Eirik Lillebøe Wiken who was driving and narrating) shows the dramatic approach to this place, run by Eirik and Hege Iren Svendsen!
The road is very exposed to rock slides…see the size of the boulders that have tumbled down the hill and the repairs to the road and notice at 1:00 the sign warning of falling rocks
In the last part, we enter the forest garden area before seeing the house!
Here is my report from the second permaveggies / foraging weekend on the wonderful arctic island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands off north west Norway. I spent an amazing couple of days here in June 2014 with some lovely people!
Foraging on land and for seaweed, wonderful wild food, warm weather, Tai Chi, Permaculture, arctic swimming, 5 Eagles soaring above us, the sunsets, inquisitive seals, lighthouse tour, the historical rose garden and much much more…………..
Please let me know if you’d be interested in joining us in 2017 (it’s not confirmed yet)…
This album appeared originally on FB: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152397484675860.1073742076.655215859&type=1&l=f6a7c2e28e
Puffins / Lunde
Puffins / Lunde
Foraging on Skomvær
Elin gives a guided tour of the lighthouse.
Inquisitive seal
Midnight sun, taken 1 minute after midnight :)
23 species salad made for yesterday’s lunch including seaweed and endemic dandelions… :)
Eider duck / Ærfugl creche
Angelica sylvestris / Sløke roots were very tasty..
Eider / Ærfugl
Chickweed / Vassarve sprouts growing on mass just above the washed up seaweed, used in the salad… :)
Sukkertare (Sea Belt), Fingertare (Oarweed) and Grisetang (Norwegian Kelp), all edible species…
Rhubarb, the only survivor in the old lighthouse keepers garden…Røst Artist In Residence are creating a new garden out here, based on permaculture principles
The site of an old Rose garden…..
Returning from the seaweed harvest…
Anyone know what seaweed this is?
Mertensia maritima / Oyster plant / Østersurt
Black Guillemots / Teist
Eider Ducks / Ærfugl
Wood Cranesbill / Skogstorkenebb, the year’s first flowers here
Røst
Helene C. Bøhler pretending to be a??
Preparing baccalao
Strandsmelle / Sea Campion for the baccalao
Strandsmelle / Sea Campion for the baccalao
Narrow-leaved sorrel / engsyre
Probably one of the endemic dandelions / løvetann
Probably one of the endemic dandelions / løvetann
Dwarf Cornel / Skrubbær
Dwarf Cornel / Skrubbær
Chickweed wintergreeen/ Skogstjerne :)
Scurvy Grass / Skjørbuksurt
Sedum acre
Great Black-backed gull / svartbak egg
Great Black-backed gull / svartbak eggs
Silverweed/ Gåsemure
Scurvy Grass / Skjørbuksurt
Scurvy Grass / Skjørbuksurt
Shags / Toppskarv
Angelica sylvestris / sløke
Scurvy Grass / Skjørbuksurt
Shadow dancers
Elin Sunshine Vister’s sourdough hands
+ scorsonnerot, making it 23… Dandelion, Rhubarb, Sorrel, Angelica sylvestris, Angelica archangelica, Cow Parsley, Scurvy-grass, Mertensia maritima, Rumex crispa, Sedum acre, Allium victorialis, Chives, Mint, Roseroot, Sea Campion, Chickweed, Viola canina, Dabberlocks/ Winged Kelp, Sea Lettuce and Dulse
Scurvy grass / Skjørbuksurt and goose poo…
Unusual sorrel / engsyre flowers
Red Campion / Jonsokblom came in various different colour variants
Great black-backed gulls / Svartbak
Bird’s foot trefoil / tiriltunge
Cornus suecica with white bracts
Cornus suecica with yellow bracts
Cow parsley / hundekjeks
Violetti….
Eagle / Havørn and Hooded Crow / kråke
Our secluded bathing beach…
Rumex crispa
Rumex crispa
Sea plantain / strandkjempe
Anyone know what this seaside plant is?
Elin forages scurvy-grass / skjørbuksurt flowers
Foraging scurvy-grass / skjørbuksurt flowers
Foraging scurvy-grass / skjørbuksurt flowers
Norwegian coral
Shellsand beach
Mass germination of chickweed / vassarve on the beach
Washing up using tidal power….
Coral and Atriplex spp.
Eiderdown – an eagle / havørn had taken this unlucky bird…
Angelica archangelica
Seaweed washed up high in a winters storm
Thongweed, sea thong or sea spaghetti / remtang
Fingertare / Oarweed, one of the species harvested for alginates
Thongweed, sea thong or sea spaghetti / remtang
Fisherwoman
Dabberlocks, badderlocks or winged kelp /butare
Thongweed, sea thong or sea spaghetti / remtang. these structures which fix the seaweed to the substrate are called green sea beans / grønne bønner fra havet and we used them in salad
Greylag geese / grågås, a common breeding bird
Røst
Røst
Shags / Toppskarv
The green rectangle in the centre is the sight of an old rose garden…Elin Sunshine Vister knows the details…
I wonder what the circular green area in the centre of the picture was?
This is where we stayed…
Puffin / Lunde reflection in the sea….
Eider Duck / Ærfugl
Cormorants / Storskarv
Eider Duck / Ærfugl
Dog Violet / Lifiol
A foraged Angelica sylvestris / sløke root hole
Foraged Angelica sylvestris / sløke root….excellent
Distant view of Saltisen glacier on the mainland
Green omelette
Green omelette
Seiersløk / Allium victorialis arriving on Skomvær
Vigdis Haugtrø and Helene Bøhler
Elin Sunshine Vister
The first magical long weekend on the island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands. I was contributing at a permaculture / wild food workshop there in August 2013, the first of two (so far)!!
I hope we can arrange a third weekend here in 2017…please let me know if you’re interested :)
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Where!!
Approaching Røst on the ferry from Bodø and the main engine failed and we had to return to sea on the reserve engine until it was OK again
Entering the harbour at Røst
Transferred to a small boat for the transfer to Skomvær lighthouse, 15 km further south west…
Transferred to a small boat for the transfer to Skomvær lighthouse, 15 km further south west…
The landing at Skomvær, home for the next 3 days….
The next morning we almost stood on a young Rock Pipit / Skjærpiplerke
We were not to be alone as a boat from the coastal directorate arrived to pump diesel to fuel the lighthouse…
….and the power had failed and the electrician arrived by helicopter
Course participants, our leader Elin Sunshine Vister with her recording gear… The helicopter pilot (right) joined us as he had to wait all day…
Angelica sylvestris (sløke) and Margrethe leaving us, hitching a lift on the helicopter
Rumex acetosa was everywhere in the previously cultivated soil around the houses, a good accompaniment to freshly caught fish, next picture
Freshly caught hyse/haddock for lunch
Ranunculus acris /buttercup/ engsoleie is poisonous raw, but turks in Norway make a pie with it (must be cooked)
The nearby seabird islands were a beautiful backdrop for the plants, Angelica sylvestris
Plantago maritima
Cochlearia officinalis
Scots Lovage / Ligusticum scoticum
Silene maritima
Angelica sylvestris
Angelica sylvestris
Silene maritima and Ligusticum scoticum
Vicia cracca – the flowers are edible in salads…
Angelica archangelica / Kvann
Harebell / Blåklokke
Solidago virgaurea
The only relic of previous lighthouse gardening was of course rhubarb / rabarbra
Peloric Angelica sylvestris (distorted flattened stem)
Dinner – Angelica sylvestris broccolis….
Angelica sylvestris / Sløke young flower umbels makes an excellent broccoli-like vegetable, steamed and with some garlic, chili and with some oil or butter. Slightly bitter, but not unpleasantly so!
Angelica sylvestris / Sløke yound flower umbels makes an excellent broccoli-like vegetable
Oyster plant/Østersurt, Mertensia maritima
Plantago maritima
Cochlearia seedlings
Plantago maritima
In the background the sea is steaming with mackerel, abundant around the island
Young Great Black-back /Svartbak
Young Great Black-back /Svartbak
Magical evening
Eirik!
Tern
Chickweed / Stellaria media, the only patch I found
Chickweed / Stellaria media
Notice that the Oyster plant was infested with black aphids!!!!
The evening salad with about 25 species, about 80% of the edible green plants on the island – the red is Cornus suecica – prepared under candlelight as we lost power that evening again and didn’t get it back the rest of the weekend…
Tormentil / Tepperot (Potentilla erecta)
Greylag Geese / Grågås with Angelica sylvestris
Rock Pipit / Skjærpiplerke
Rock Pipit / Skjærpiplerke
Black Guillemot / Teist with food for its young…
Skomvær map
Tripleurospermum maritimum / Sea Mayweed / Strandbalderbrå
Solidago virgaurea
Arion ater, Svartskogsnegl / Black Slug was common on the island
Tripleurospermum maritimum / Sea Mayweed / Strandbalderbrå
Angelica sylvestris with red stem
Angelica sylvestris with green stem
Rumex longifolius / Høymole / Northern Dock indicates nutrient charged soil from earlier times
Angelica sylvestris and Vicia cracca
There were mats of Eyebright / Øyentrøst on the island, here with Strandkjeks / Scots Lovage
We were without electricity after the aggregated failed, just gas for cooking….So, what to do when there were only coffee beans, how would we survive 2 days without coffee? Eirik Lillebøe Wiken had the solution.
Large clump of Rumex acetosa
Another indicator of earlier cultivation is Anthriscus sylvestris / Cow Parsley / Hundekjeks
Anthriscus sylvestris / Cow Parsley / Hundekjeks
New cultivation
One of us was fishing and two killer whales (spekkhogger) swam right past within only a few metres! She ran back to tell us and we went up to the top of the top of the lighthouse to look for them, but all we saw was the fantastic view
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
Bird islands seen from Skomvær Lighthouse
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
View from Skomvær Lighthouse – flower heads of Angelica sylvestris / Sløke can be seen scattered around
View from Skomvær Lighthouse with flower heads of Angelica sylvestris / Sløke
View from Skomvær Lighthouse – flower heads of Angelica sylvestris / Sløke can be seen scattered around
Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and son
Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and son
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
View from Skomvær Lighthouse
Sun reflections in the lighthouse
Setting sun from Skomvær Lighthouse
Setting sun from Skomvær Lighthou
Magical sunset from Skomvær Lighthouse
What weird ceremony is this?
What weird ceremony is this?
What’s happening here?
What’s happening here?
The wind picked up and waves broke on the skerries. At one point I gave a short course on ocean waves
Dwarf Cornel / Skrubbær (Cornus suecica) is really not as bad as its reputation. It’s mild tasting but I think it’s pretty good and anyway we had no choice apart from Empetrum nigrum
The green “broccolis” of Angelica sylvestris were gourmet food for us, served with a cheese sauce..
This is the channel to the island’s landing place. It was pretty rough here on the Sunday and we wondered if it would be possible to get picked up on Monday morning
The landing channel
Dwarf Cornel / Skrubbær (Cornus suecica)
Dwarf Cornel / Skrubbær (Cornus suecica)
Making Angelica flutes with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen jr.
Making Angelica flutes with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen jr.
Making Angelica flutes with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen jr.
Making Angelica flutes with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen jr.
Angelica flute with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen jr.
The Skomvær Angelica orchestra – see also the world premier video soon to be released…
Wonderful tasty seaweed dish was presented
Wonderful tasty seaweed dish was presented
On the way to forage more seaweed for dinner
Empetrum nigrum / Krekling / Black Crowberry seems to be spreading on the island with several large spreading patches
Empetrum nigrum / Krekling / Black Crowberry
Was this building used for smoking fish or distilling?
Landing ramp
About 20 seals were resting on the rocks
Limpet / Albusnegl
Limpet / Albusnegl
Limpet / Albusnegl
Gathering seaweed
Limpet / Albusnegl. Anyone know what these round brown structures are?
Gentianella campestris / Bakkesøte / Field Gentian
Gentianella campestris / Bakkesøte / Field Gentian
Potentilla anserina / Silverweed / Gåsemure growing in brackish water
Roots of Potentilla anserina / Silverweed / Gåsemure were earlier used as food both in Norway, Scotland and North America but it’s a lot of work…
Roots of Potentilla anserina / Silverweed / Gåsemure were earlier used as food both in Norway, Scotland and North America but it’s a lot of work…
Eyebright / Øyentrøst
Young Scots Lovage / Strandkjeks plants
Young Black Guillemot…
Young Black Guillemot…
Young Black Guillemot…
Black Guillemot nests are in holes under rocks like here
The second small colony of Angelica archangelica we found
Caltha palustris / Marsh Marigold / Soleihov , Bekkeblom – we found just this one small group
Seeds of Caltha palustris / Marsh Marigold / Soleihov , Bekkeblom
Skomvær dandelions / løvetann
Little exhibition of seaweeds…
No, Hazel Hannah Barstow, my beard did not fall into my lunch….
Atriplex species (tangmelde?), the only plants I found
The stands of Eyebright / Øyentrøst were amazing
Sea Mayweed / Strandbalderbrå
Scots Lovage / Strandkjeks cleavage
Silene dioica
Empetrum nigrum
A trip to the southernmost part of the island
The landing
The second find of Oysterplant / Østersurt
The only cleavers /klengemaure plant we found
Sagina procumbens / Birdeye pearlwort / Tunsmåarve is also a weed in my garden
Rhinanthus minor / Yellow Rattle / Småengkall
My last sunrise on Skomvær for some time from my bedroom
My last sunrise on Skomvær for some time from my bedroom
Rescue
Seals on Skomvær
Fuglfjell / Bird Island – one of the islands with large numbers of puffins / lundefugl. There used to be almost 1.5 million pairs but there hasn’t been really successful breeding for years
Kittiwakes/ Krykkje on Røst
Kittiwakes/ Krykkje on Røst
Kittiwakes/ Krykkje on Røst
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