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)…
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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
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?
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