Cold Climate Garden

Projects

There are always some projects going on in the permaculture garden. Take a look at some of what I am up to in this garden.

Foraging for food is an ancient art, probably as old as humanity itself. However, it requires a lot of knowledge. But once you learn the basics – you will find that gathering your own food is very rewarding.

Learning

It is always importante to keep learning and add to your personal knowledge base. Here are an overview of the stuff that I have been improving my knowledge about lately.

The Four Climate Zone

14. February 2016Climate

The world has been divided into different climate zones. We have four main zones and two of these have sub zones. The basis of this division is variations in climate, vegetation, air pressure and the average temperature. The main zones are: arctic, temperate, subtropical and tropical. There will of course…

The One-Straw Revolution

4. February 2016Books

Masanobu Fukuoka was one of the first people to actually do farming in a permaculture sense, and he did so before permaculture was put into the system it is today. So we could say that he in many ways is the father of permaculture. Many of the principles we know…

Fermenting

24. January 2016Learning

When you are growing food in a garden in a cold climate, one of the most important things to learn is how to preserve your harvested vegetables. Here in Oslo where I live, the snow mostly comes end of Descember and stays until mid April. So during these months you…

Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening

19. January 2016Books

One of the best examples of a mature permaculture farm in a temperate clima is Sepp Holzers farm Krameterhof in the Austian alps. Sepp Holzer has written a book where he explains permaculture by lots of examples from his own farm. The Krameterhof is an intricate network of terraces, raised…

Cold Climate Plants

Projects

Foraging

Learning