Norwegian: I september 2012 besøkte jeg Grimstad for å snakke om min bok Around the World in 80 plants som snart skulle se dagens lys! Jeg holdt et foredrag for Grimstad bys museum og Aust-Agder sopp- og nyttevekstforening. Jeg ble også invitert til Bioforsk Landvik hvor Åsmund Asdal fra genressursenteret hadde et kontor. Jeg hadde samarbeidet med Åsmund over flere år som leder av Planteklubben for Grønnsaker (Norwegian Seed Savers). Jeg ga en kort foredrag for staben etterfulgt av en tur på forsøksarealene for å se førstehånd flere av klonsamlingene som Planteklubben mottok materiale fra hvert år!
English:In September 2012, I visited Grimstad in the south of Norway to give a talk about my soon to be published book Around the World in 80 plants to Grimstad bys museer and Aust-Agder sopp- og nyttevekstforening (the museum and local group of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society). I was also invited to nearby Bioforsk Landvik where Åsmund Asdal of the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre had an office. I had collaborated with Åsmund over a number of years as leader of Norwegian Seed Savers (Planteklubben for Grønnsaker). I gave a short afternoon talk to the staff followed by a tour of the grounds to see first hand several of the clonal collections that Planteklubben received material from each year!
Bioforsk Landvik
Old Norwegian tomatoes
Rhubarb (rabarbra) plants on the move to a new location for the National clone collection
Åsmund gave us a guided tour of the grounds
The Norwegian clone collection of horseradish (pepperrot)
ORhubarb (rabarbra) collection
Blackberries (bjørnebær)
Åsmund and Aiah Noack from Naturplanteskolen in Denmark, who was on holiday in Norway and stopped by!
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Rows of Oxyria digyna (mountain sorrel / fjellsyre), part of a revegetation project based on hardy herbs from the mountains
A few pictures from a great weekend in Jondal at the Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and Environment
A few pictures of edibles in the garden of the flat we stayed in in Jondal!
Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)
Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)
An oriental hybrid lily
Campanula
Canna
Hosta
Begonia
Rose
…and the last set of pictures is from a trip to the Folgefonna glacier, only 35 mins to drive from sea level at Jondal to the ski lifts for summer skiing! The pictures are mostly of edible plants seen right next to the ski centre!