Really looking forward to visiting the beautiful tranquil Koster Islands again at the end of April and Helena von Bothmer‘s permaculture centre and gardens there. See the following FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1567806430183747
Here are a few pictures from my last trip two years ago, just for a visit…
More about the Koster Islands here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koster_Islands
North Koster
Picture taken by journalist Heidi Løkken in my garden this week showing my straggling tree climbing Hablitzia together with a French dandelion cultivar “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore”. Before I really discovered perennials, this was a part of my vegetable garden I struggled with as it was so dry under the birch tree during summer. Using perennials, the same area is one of the most productive parts of the garden as it’s damp enough when the perennials are growing strongest to the end of June!
Bli med meg til Engeløya! Jeg skal holde helgekurs der fra 19. – 21. juni! Påmeldinger til Eva Bakkeslett!
Join me on a weekend to beautiful Engeløya / Island of the Angels (Steigen) in Northern Norway from 19th – 21st June!
Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015
I’m really happy to have been asked to give a talk at Todmorden, a place and people who have inspired so many people around the world. All are welcome to this unique opportunity to spend a day in Todmorden with me, with the following program:
9:00 – 10:30 Visit to Incredible Farm (Permaculture inspired)
11:00 – 12:30 Incredible Edible Todmorden (guided tour)
14:00 – 17:00 Around the world in 80 plants (talk)
Information about price (it won’t be expensive) and local accomodation will follow!
For more information, contact Estelle at estelle@incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
The latest Nordic Permaculture Magazine, out on Friday includes an article about:
“Permakulturhave (Permaculture Garden)
Høj diversitet (High diversity)
Højt mod nord (Far to the North)”
I wonder where that might be ;-)
And now adding a pdf of the article:
The latest Permaculture Magazine arrived yesterday with an excerpt from the book “The many uses of UDO” (Aralia cordata)
I write about one of the most unusual veggie cultivation techniques in the book!” There are underground caverns of blanching Udo under Tokyo? At the top of my things to experience list!! I found some pictures on the net , but couldn’t use them in the book, sadly! This is a slide from my talk about the book
Link added to my list of talks, courses and forages (at http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=262) to a FB event for the Hardanger Perennialen at the beginning of May, what promises to be the most beautiful course on perennial vegetables and wild foraged food EVER! More information to follow!
My book Around the World in 80 plants is book of the week on permies.com this week 2nd – 6th February and I’ll be answering questions and taking part in the discussions on the plants forum! See you there!
http://www.permies.com/t/43853/plants/Stephen-Barstow-author-World-Plants#345985
http://www.permies.com/forums/f-70/plants
Really nice video showing off the Holma Forest Garden in southern Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLEC-dtRdk
Link to my post about Holma here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=138
In a special part of the garden, many of the plants in my book Around the World in 80 plants will be planted in the spring :-) http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=30
Exactly 3 years ago, we were having the coldest winter ever. I stratify (cold treatment) a lot of seed of perennials under a cold frame in the garden. I’d never seen frost heave like this before in these seed trays, tripling volume like a good loaf of bread…Unfortunately, it had also heaved a lot of the labels out…
Here, Crambe koktebelica from the Ukraine and Russia from Alpine Garden Society seed, a potentially interesting perennial vegetable…..but, no plants resulted from this attempt!
