The 4th Perennialen was the shortest yet, a short visit to Eirik and Hege’s wonderful place and LAND centre at Alvastien in Hardanger after the Nordic Permaculture Festival in Jondal! This year’s participants were Eirik and Hege, Meg, Karoline from Myrrhis in Denmark, Julia Sol and LAND coordinator Helene Bøhler!
Next year will be the 5th Perennialen and we will be inviting you to a road trip around great permaculture sites of Hordaland and Hardanger in May, so watch this space!
Swim in an unusually warm Fyksesundet; in the water can be seen bark being retted for fibre extraction (Hege’s latest project)!
Eirik showed us around his Forest Garden, here with Karoline and Helene!
The forest garden with Cirsium oleraceum (cabbage thistle / kåltistel)
The first veggie food I ate was macaroni cheese and chips at Edwin Jones (now Debenhams) in Southampton, a treat when we Mum took us shopping back in the 60s…
Most years since I’ve followed this tradition on or near my birthday, no chips this year as the potatoes have run out and nowadays the macaroni cheese is mixed with masses of green stuff both from the garden and, yesterday, fiddleheads harvested on the Homla walk. This is more or less the only time in the year I have dessert and the only time I eat sugar…in rhubarb crumble, also with family roots back to the 60s :)
Macaroni green cheese and ground elder (skvallerkål)
Some other random ingredients…blanched Hablitzia
Blanched moss-leaved dandelion
Blanched moss-leaved dandelion
Top left and left to right: Hosta Frances Williams, ramsons (ramsløk), blanched moss-leaved dandelion, blanched lovage aka spring celery (løpstikke eller vårselleri), blanched sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel), blanched Hablitzia (stjernemelde), sea kale (strandkål) broccolis and ostrich fern fiddleheads (strutseving)
Ostrich fern fiddleheads (strutseving)
Top left and left to right: Hosta Frances Williams, ramsons (ramsløk), blanched moss-leaved dandelion, blanched lovage aka spring celery (løpstikke eller vårselleri), blanched sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel), blanched Hablitzia (stjernemelde), sea kale (strandkål) broccolis
Rhubarb crumble (early variety from the island Træna)
rhubarb crumble, also with family roots back to the 60s :)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
