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Where do you live and garden?: Sweden

How long have you been growing food?: 4-10 years

About Me:: I grew up in Hawaii, have gardened in Indiana and in El Salvador (three years in the Peace Corps). Now I'm learning how to grow vegetables in cold, short-seasoned Sweden.

Favorite foods:: olives, cheese, all veggies, taco poke (squid), mushrooms, licorice, pineapple, chocolate, miso...

Website (if any):: http://www.emmaeyre.com

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At 10:25am on May 16th, 2008, Ian said…: Hi Emma,

it would indeed be fun to meet up so if you can make it in 2009 feel free to drop in. I'm getting quite good responses with people from as far away as the states and Australia committing to it. Quite frightening really, to think of people travelling half way round the world just to see my 2.5m square veg plot!!!

Ian

At 11:19am on May 14th, 2008, Penelope said…: Yeah, it's been pretty weird. I just walked through my garden. I may be picking spinach in a week or so. I hope so. I'm not buying any greens now in anticipation of eating my own.

At 8:22am on May 14th, 2008, Penelope said…: Emma, we haven't heard from you for a while. How does the garden grow?

At 3:17am on April 30th, 2008, Ian said…: Hi Emma,

Thanks for your comment on the event in France. I'm not absolutely certain but I'm guessing your baby is due in 2008 and this event is in 2009?? Just a thought :-)
Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy and with the birth.

Ian

At 8:46am on March 25th, 2008, Penelope said…: The fermented herring doesn't sound too good to me, but I imagine there are many things I would adjust to in certain circumstances. I'd be afraid of botulism, however. My daughter and husband are anthropologist/archaeologists and do field work in the Aleutians. Some of the Alaskan tribes make a kind of fermented fish that's buried protected by branches, twigs, etc. Traditionally, it's ok to eat, but every now and then someone thinks a plastic bucket would be a good substitute for the twigs and a whole family will succomb to botulism poisoning because the plastic doesn't breathe. A sad consequence of modern life.

I teach English also, at Idaho State University. this is my spring break as well. However, I have a pile of essays i need to grade and am avoiding it. Yesterday I threaded one of my looms with a textured group of yarns in the salmon/pink colorway for a couple of shawls. I will weave each with a different yarn. I just put two new shawls up on my Website FYI. I also bought some groceries and found a lovely eggplant that I turned into Greek Moussaka using some leftover lamb from Easter dinner. I'm not Greek, but my birth name has caused me to explore all kinds of things, including weaving :-) Naming kids is important. My grandsons' names are Alexander Beowulf and Augustus Dylan -- The Beowulf comes from my daughter's honeymoon in Denmark when they attended a recitation in a hut in an Iron Age village during a wild storm while drinking mead. They were enchanted!

I would love to visit Sweden. There was a travelogue on TV the other night about Stockholm and then a ferry to Helsinki. Have you been to Finland? Is the artist Carl Larssen Swedish or Norwegian? His wife was a weaver as well.

It's good to hear from you. It's raining here now. "Good for the lettuces" as the French say.

At 4:59am on March 23rd, 2008, Ian said…: Hi Emma,
Banyuls sur mer is about a 3 hour drive south of where I am so not really very far at all. It's almost on the Spanish border.
I'm growing Dill for the first time this year so maybe I'll end up being a little Swedish and putting in everything. I do like the taste a lot.
People tell me that there is wild asparagus about but I'm not very good at identifying plants unless they have a label on them!!! I'm starting to learn a little and have started to eat more of the wild foods around. We have some great garlic chives growing wild here which make a wonderfully tasty vinaigrette. I'm not sure I could cope with eating caviar on toast for breakfast, I think that is a little tooo scandinavian!!!!!!! :-) I do enjoy it on hard boiled eggs though.
Hope you are enjoying the community.
Ian

At 8:15am on March 21st, 2008, Penelope said…: It's great hearing from you. Sweden has always intrigued me. Norway too. I grew up in a Swedish Lutheran church in western Washington, Puget Sound area. the "old country" members put on quite a Smorgaasbord at Christmas and of course, the jokes about lutefisk abounded, as well as the smell. My mother became fond of Lefse and I liked Lingonberries. My family's ancestry is Scottish/Irish/French. It's fun finding recipes in books that mirror my French American grandmother's cooking -- trancing ancestry through recipes.

I definitely see the "forms" connection between weaving and gardening. It's nice that you see it too. I've been trying to get an asparagus bed going and have had no luck. I've planted them near a fence. they grow fine the first year and then nothing comes back the next year which makes no sense. I've decided that my neighbors on theother side of the fence use chemical pesticides and they kill my plants, although other plants survive. Perhaps asparagus is more sensitive? I know one year my grape leaves curled up. the plants didn't die, but the leaves definitely registered an herbicide response. I was furious since I don't use those things. I talked with the man and he was really defensive. Luckily they've moved and the new people are friendlier. I'm thinking of trying asparagus again -- it'll probably be ready to harvest the year my kids decide to haul me off to a home :)

I like to fish for trout in our mountain streams, but I haven't done it for a few years. I like to cook them in a cast iron skillet over an open fire in bacon grease, roll them in cornmeal, serve with fried potatoes and onions. The open fire really ads to the flavor and the whole aura of the experience I think.

I awakened to a fresh skiff of snow. The first day of spring.

At 4:43am on March 21st, 2008, Ian said…: Hi Emma,
I just left a comment for Penelope and saw your reply to her. I must say that your cold sauce of creme fraiche, onions, and caviar really sounds great. I think I'm going to try that with a white fish.
Thanks Ian

At 3:35pm on March 20th, 2008, Penelope said…: Love the fish. what kind are they? How do you prepare them? I'm gardening in short-seasoned Idaho. I always plant something, somehow too early and get zapped with frost. We had a blizzard last weekend, and 55 F weather three days later. How did you get to Sweden from Hawaii, etc.?

At 7:27am on March 20th, 2008, Ian said…: HI Emma,
Welcome to Kitchen Gardeners. I live in South west France so I won't be much help with knowledge about gardening in cold, short seasoned Sweden, but I'm sure there will be plenty of people on here who will.
I visited your website and loved your paintings. Thank you.
Ian