Mammals

Our main predator….

July 28, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

I don’t think I’ve blogged about a very important component of the garden ecosystem…so presenting:

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The garden would be a quieter place without this one!

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A Hundred Embraces
A last chance visit to Balser Tree Farms in Mt. Vernon WA
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A record March Extreme Salad
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A year in the life of the Persian Shallot
Adaptive Seeds and the Seed Ambassadors
Agricultural Research Service near Corvallis, Oregon
Allium atroviolaceum
Allium cernuum, my favourite onion?
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Allium hookeri
Allium hookeri “Zorami”
Allium paradoxum var normale / Snowdrop onion
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An Edimental Lampascioni
An interesting Barlotto!
An Unusually Edible Garden
Anemone rivularis
Anmeldelser av Inger-Lise Østmoe i Sopp og Nyttevekster
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Around the World in 80 plants at Feral Farm Agroforestry
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Around the World in 80 plants: now available on-line from Edimentals headquarters
Around The World in 80 Plants: published on 19th November 2014!
Around the world just outside of Ottawa!
Arthur Lee Jacobson’s Edible Garden
Article about my September visit to Iceland!
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Articles from 2012 in Danish Havenyt
Ashitaba / Angelica keiskei
Aster scaber and introducing Misoni
ATW review in Blyttia
ATW review in Ethnobiology Letters
ATW Review in Sesam / Swedish Seed Savers magazine: English translation
Bees love Hogweeds
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Bodmon Sok
Book launch in Oslo in November 2014
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Book review and interview on the Backyard Larder blog!
Book review from the Chicago Botanical Garden
Book review in Orebladet
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Botanising the Oregon coast
Bower spinach, an interesting clamberer!
Broad bean falafel
Broad bean patties
Broussonetia papyrifera / Paper Mulberry
Brøndegaard on the rubber dandelion, burdock and utilisation of useful weed plants
Buddleja feast
Calamintha grandiflora “Variegata”
Canadian Moss-leaved Dandelion T-shirt
Canadian Organic Growers book review
Caraway root breeding
Cardamine raphanifolia
Cat Faeces, Goat Horns and Devil’s Fingers
Caucasian Pennycress
Celery Leaf Pine
Coffee Coffee and more coffee
Colourful view
Common sow-thistle – super weedy food and good globalisation!
Common storksbill / tranehals / Erodium cicutarium
Community gardens at the Old Nursery in Akureyri
Crambe tatarica seed
Cycle foraging
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D2 article “Til Odel og Pleie” from 2010
Dandelions and ATW in The English Garden
Danish Rye Bread #1
Darlingtonia
Daubenton Perennial Kale x Purple Sprouting Broccoli
David Woodland
David’s Lily, a beautiful edimental
Digging wild dandelion roots
Double Physalis
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Economic Botany at Kew
Edible Begonia
Edible Begonias
Edible day at Lindesnes
Edible Garden video on the first snowy day this winter
Edible plants in the Akureyri Botanical Garden
Edible plants in the Reykjavik Botanical Gardens
Edible tour of Southampton Parks
Edible Tromsø / Spiselig Tromsø
Edibles in the Oslo Botanical Gardens in July 2015
Edimental display and my first talk in the land of the Sagas
Edimental Meadowsweet
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Edimentals in the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim
Edimentals tour of the Copenhagen Botanical Gardens on 16th March 2014
Edulis nursery
Engi and Selfoss
Extra wide-leaved form of Allium nutans
Extreme Salad Man meets Incredible Edible Todmorden Poster
Fantasy salad competition in Permaculture magazine
Fantasy salads to Noma
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February 2014 article in Malvikbladet
Fenugreek Methi
Fermenting my garden – a world record in bubbling diversity?
Field grown Norwegian Rhodiola
Flower arranger salad
Flower stem sweet and sour stir-fry
Foraging the final 27 ingredients!
Forced lime leaf salad
Frederik Christian Schübeler, the grandfather of the Norwegian seed savers
From Malvik to Noma!
Gardens, sidewalks and market in Seattle
Goosanders at Malvikodden
Greek mountain tea struggling in the heat
Green winter at 63 degrees north (Norway)
Grennessminde
Grennessminde, the Noma beds and Microbreeder seminar
Grønsfjord Staudegartneri and Anemette Olesen
Hablitzia at the Swedish National Natural History Museum
Hablitzia gnocchi
Hablitzia in my book
Hablitzia off for a bike ride?
Hablitzia tamnoides accessions overview
Hagekongen in Obos-bladet
Happy Birthday ATW
Hardanger Perennialen
Harvest and winter preparations
Hogweed hybrids
Home grown bread seed
Home grown trees in 2 months!!
Home made and grown hummus
Homla Nature reserve
Homla walk 20th July 2015
INCREDIBLE Incredible Edible Todmorden – the tour
INCREDIBLE Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man talk
INCREDIBLE Incredible Edible Todmorden – MARY CLEAR
Interview about Around the world in 80 plants on Gastropod!
Interview in Icelandic magazine Sumarhúsið og garðurinn
Invitasjon til stiftelsesmøte for “Plantesamlerne”
It’s back!
Jackdaw meet at dusk
Jordseminar / soil seminar Helgebostad, Hitra
Jordskokk smakstest / Jerusalem artichoke taste test
Jordskokkeksperimentet (Jerusalem artichoke experiment)
King’s Spear Bulgarian salad
Klæbuveien Edimental Garden “Dugnad”
Knightshayes Court May 2016
Knutshø and Kongsvoll
Konjac / Amorphophallus rivieri
Laccaria maritima / sand deceiver / dynelakssopp
Last meeting in the Bulgarian Heritage Seed project
Leading the way of a new generation of edible-plant hunters?
Lecture, lunch and edibles tour of the Hillier Gardens
Ligularia fischeri, king of the sannamul
Lily bulb harvest
Lindesnes Fyr / Lighthouse
Lomatiums or Biscuit roots from Alan Kapuler
Looking for edibles in Tromsø Botanical Garden / 2009
Lost crops of the Incas vase!
Lupinus pilosus
Løk for strøk
Magnificent review of ATW in Permaculture Activist
Malvik Permaveggies 2012 course pictures: Day 2
MALVIK PERMAVEGGIES 2012 COURSE PICTURES: DAY 3
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Malvik Permaveggies course in May 2013
Malvik’s February Fantasy Salad
Maxi-edimental flowers
Mertensia lanceolata
Mid-March Dandelions
Mine artikler i Sopp og Nyttevekster / Norwegian articles in the magazine of the Useful Plants Society
Molopospermum peloponnesiacum
Mono no aware
More pictures from the guided edibles tour in the Tromsø Botanics!
Munich Botanical Garden
My dad – vegetable gardener of 8 decades!
My Edible Alpines
My Eureka moment!!
My house
My Syrian onion, Allium zebdanense
Nalca and the food forests of Chiloe Island in Chile!!
Narcotits?
Nasjonal Grønttreff (National Green Meet-up)
Nature’s Heirlooms
Naturplanteskolen
New personal best November salad ;)
New Year’s Eve Tempura-Diversa
New Zealand record salad
Nodding onion and chicory quiche with alpine bistort bulbils..
Norrland Onion
North West Permaculture Convergence
Norwegian article on Japanese Knotweed from 2010
Norwegian Protein Intolerance Society article
Norwegian Seed Savers at 10
Norwegian Sideritis syriaca article from 2004
Nostoc marbles in Tromsø
NZ Heritage Food Crops Research at the Riverton Harvest Festival
October edimental salad
Of Plums and Pignuts book review
Opium
Perennial Greens 30th June 2015
Perennial Kales at the Walsall Road Allotments, Birmingham
Perennial sprouts
Perennial tempura and Oplopanax horridus
Perennial thicket bean
Permaculture Magazine article on Extreme Salads
Permaculture Magazine Article on Hostas, 2008
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Permaveggies courses 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2019 overview
Petasites japonicus
Picardo Farm P-Patch, Seattle
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Pink-flowered ground elder
Planteklubbenes Årbok 2015 / Norwegian Seed Savers Yearbook for 2015
Planteklubbens Årbok 2016 (Norwegian Seed Savers Yearbook for 2016)
Planteklubbens høstkatalog 2015 (Norwegian Seed Savers Autumn catalogue)
Portland odds and ends
Powell Butte Nature Park, Portland, Oregon
Prairie Turnip, Psoralea esculenta
Purple flowered caraway?
Puss moth
Red clover in white and white clover in red
Ren Mat article
Review in Cambridge (UK) News
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Review of Around the World by Samuel Thayer!!!!!
Review of ATW by Alys Fowler in the Guardian!
Review of ATW by SRGC’s Maggi Young
Review of ATW in Icelandic Sumarhúsinu og garðinum
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Ringve Botanical Garden Edimentals Tour
Rita Amundsen in Malvik and the day’s first world record?
Schübeler on Hablitzia
Schübeler on Ulluco and Anredera
Seed seed and more seed
Sesam Nytt ATW review
Shakespeare’s Avon Way Edibles
Sherpa onion
Shungiku article
Sintra Foraging with Fernanda Botelho
Skomvær permacourses in 2013 and 2014
Small blue onions
Steffen Fleischhauer’s “Enzyklopädie der essbaren Wildpflanzen”
Steigen Permaveggies course June 2015
Stockholm University Forest Garden
Strandzha Mountain Tea (Sideritis syriaca)
Strandzha mountains seminar and field trips
Swamp onions don’t like swamps
Sweet potato harvest in mid-March
Talks and courses : 2014-2023
Taraxacum albidum
Taraxacum pseudoroseum, the pink flowered dandelion
Tasmanian water ribbons
Taunton Deane Perennial Kale at Knightshayes Court
The 99 a day keeps the doctor away Ås salad
The First World Fantasy Salad Competition – Fantasilater
The Forest Garden on 2nd August
The Hampshire Perennial Vegetable Triangle
The Herbal Garden of Nes, Seltjarnarnesbær
The Land Gardeners of Wardington Manor
The last Allium
The legendary moss-leaved dandelion
The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2015-2016
The Nordic Permaculture Festival at Stjärnsund
The Oslo Viking Garden
The Skálholt herb garden, Iceland
The Surroundings of the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018
The tuberous asparagus
The Walled Garden at Knightshayes Court
This Swedish Hablitzia could be as old as me….
Today’s veggies; 11th July 2015
Trachystemon orientalis, a new Edimental for the dry forest garden
Tromsø’s Arctic-Alpine Botanical garden
Tuberous thistle / Cirsium tuberosum
Turkish rocket in Oslo: a Thai speciality vegetable!
Two more bee plants
Udo fruit harvest
Ultimo September Alliums
University of Washington
Unusual edibles at Kew
Update from Mum and Dad’s Garden in Chandlers Ford
Updated flyer for the book
Vagn J. Brøndegaard
Variegated lighthouse keeper’s toilet paper
Variegated wintercress
Vegetable diversity seminar, Oslo, November 2015
Veggies at Vår Gård
Vennafjellet July 2015
Vermont and Ottawa; September 2014
Very green fish soup
Vidar-Rune Synnevåg and Stussvik
Video from the Arctic Food Festival in September 2014
Visit from Ås 16-17th May 2015
Visit to Feral Farm
Visit to the largest Allotment area in the UK – Uplands
Vitosha mountain alpine walk, Sofia, Bulgaria
Vitosha Mountain Dragalevtsi monastery walk
Volcanic Alliums
Walled garden gardeners meet at Croome
Walsall Road Allotments in Birmingham
Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
What the DNA of old Norwegian potatoes reveal
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With John Kallas at home in Portland
World record ferment competition results
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