The Goldfinches (stillits) are back. They are winter visitors here and, as far as I know, it isn’t known where these birds breed, perhaps in the Baltic states […]
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Birds / Edimentals / Seed
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Goldfinches on chicory
I’ve only ever seen goldfinches feeding on burdock seeds (Arctium) in the garden before. This morning I saw them both on nettle seed heads and then on these unharvested […]
Brøndegaard on the rubber dandelion, burdock and utilisation of useful weed plants
I was dipping in my new book Etnobotanik about Danish Ethnobotanist Vagn J. Brøndegaard when I came across an interesting sounding article from 1954 (yes, over 60 years […]
Green winter at 63 degrees north (Norway)
An old article from July 2014 by Elin Enger Mollestad in Permaculture News See the original at http://permaculturenews.org/2014/07/23/green-winter-63-degrees-north-norway/ GREEN WINTER AT 63 DEGREES NORTH (NORWAY) JULY 23, 2014 […]
Flower stem sweet and sour stir-fry
Last night, 8th June, I made a stir-fry for dinner using only the flower stems of plants. Strongly flowered plants often become much milder when they are about to […]
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From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!
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 […]