I´ll be at the annual plant market again this year selling plants and sharing knowledge about seed saving for those who would like to get their hands on a few plants from me. The list of plants is reduced as I am focused more on self sufficiency, teaching, and seed saving this year than earlier…
Continue reading Stand at the Botanical Gardens in Oslo 4th June
Having spent seven seasons growing in a greenhouse, and with the smell of spring in the air, a strong sense of longing has been hard to shake. Initially I had thought I might manage this year without a greenhouse after selling the farm last autumn, but as the days get longer and warmer, the nostalgia…
For the past year I have been involved in teaching both teachers and students at Romerike International School the basics of seed saving, ecology, and Permaculture. It has been such a rewarding move from mostly holding courses for grownups and high school students, to working with groups of kids from 1st to 9th grade. The school established…
Continue reading Teaching Kids Seed Saving, Ecology, and Permaculture
We recently sold our farm and moved to Rolstad Gård, which is at the edge of the municipality on the way to Eidsvoll. It’s a beautiful farm surrounded by the river Vorma on one side, and forest with lakes on the other. It’s also a Christmas tree farm and we came just in time for…
For the years I´ve been growing vegetables in my 300m2 poly-hoop greenhouse, I dreamt of what I would do differently if I was ever to build a new one. The benefits of having so much space are obvious to anyone who has grown in a small greenhouse and has dreamt of scaling up. Realizing that…
July 23, 2022 While attending the Norwegian Seed Savers gathering in Ringebu recently, I met Malin Jonasson. She runs Hurdal Gjestegård which is one of 8 historical priest farms that the Schubelers Gardens has been granted funding to improve this year. We stayed in touch, and I have over the past weeks done popup farmers…
Continue reading Establishing a Perennial Garden at Hurdal Gjestegård
I recently attended a gathering organized by the Norwegian Seed Savers which included a broad network of gardeners and plant enthusiasts from all over Norway. We gathered in the priest’s farm at Ringebu which is one of the jewels in the crown of the recently established Schübeler Gardens. Frederik Schübeler (1815 – 1892) was a Norwegian botanist and curator at the…
Continue reading In the footsteps of Wergeland and Schübeler
Studying organic agriculture was a letdown for me. I had expected to learn about ecology but was instead confronted with the workings of tractors, contribution margin calculations and basically conventional agriculture minus the sprays. I wanted to learn about how to relate to ecology in a sustainable way based on the science of ecology. Instead…
I´ll be holding a brand new seed course on the 11th and 24th January 2022. In it I´ll go through the basics as well as looking at how to save seeds from the following plants and their relatives: Amaranth, Beans, Tomato, Lettuce, Squash, Onion, Carrot and Cabbage. The course will be in English, with a…
Finding real solutions to global warming is THE challenge of our time. So far, we have achieved nothing of significance in reversing the trend to runaway global warming. There are growing cracks in the techno-optimistic belief that a shift of the economy over to renewable energy will save us. Increasingly, faith in consumerist, production focused, globalized,…
