It’s only taken me two years to blog about the garden at Teeny Weeny Farm, a permaculture inspired market garden in the teeny village of Dyke in Morayshire in North East Scotland, not far from Findhorn!
Today FB told me my visit was already two years ago…so I decided to do something about it. The garden was relatively young when I visited but packed with interesting plants intermingled with plants being grown by Kirsty Reid for her cut flower business (many are edimentals!). I was told that her partner permaculturist Chris Johnstone was in charge of the fruit trees and berry bushes!
On the second day of my stay with Kirsty Reid and Chris Johnstone at Teeny Weeny Farm (Dyke, Moray) I cycled over to visit Findhorn! There had been several from Findhorn at my talk the night before (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=6786 ) and I was invited by Ariane Burgess to visit the Findhorn Forest Garden (more of that later) and Craig Gibsone, one of the elders who has lived there for 40 years! The pictures are mostly of edibles I found on the bike ride and most are also invasive plants unwanted by most, but foragers look at these plants differently!
On the way to Findhorn!!
Giant hogweed
Sonchus asper, spiny sow thistle is best eaten young
Giant hogweed with dandelion
On National Cycle Route 1! If I’d kept going for a couple of weeks I might have reached Norway: http://www.northsea-cycle.com
Himalayan Balsam, one of the best edible introductions to the UK ;)
No, I didn’t go in…
Giant Hogweed…a source of the persian spice Golpar
Golpar seed maturing
Watercress
Giant Hogweed…lots of food here!
Common sow thistle, Sonchus oleraceus
Scurvy grass, Cochlearia with meadosweet on the salt marsh
Sonchus arvensis on the salt marshes
Japanese knotweed, another great invasive edible
Heracleum sphondylium, hogweed
Silene vulgaris, bladder campion
The seed of Heracleum sphondylium (hogweed) can also be used as a spice
A pink flowered form of Silene vulgaris, bladder campion
Aster…possibly edible young leaves
Sonchus arvensis enjoys the salty environment of the road verge!
Plantago maritima (sea plantain) also colonises road side verges due to the salt
What a lovely evening in good company of local (to Dyke by Forres) permaculture folk, forest gardeners and a van load from Findhorn! Thanks to my hosts Kirsty Reid and psychology of resilience author Chris Johnstone!
The participants after the great veggie meal Kirsty Reid had put on!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
