Making pseudo olives

Posted on do 03 november 2022 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: summer

Ina found an interesting video on YouTube a while ago that talked about turning the cherries from Cornus mas (European cornel / gele kornoeille) into something resembling olives.

We have discovered three Cornus mas in the park nearby. This year the trees had a mast year. Naturally we decided to try …


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Making vinegar

Posted on vr 19 augustus 2022 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: summer

This month I made another batch of apple vinegar. I had harvested a few apples from my mother's front yard. They had fallen down and were brown and desseccated in the middle. The tree had rejected them as viable seeds because of this. The outer part was still usable to …


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Making mustard

Posted on ma 13 september 2021 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: fall

This month I made mustard from mustard seeds grown in the Proeftuin. The recipe follows further down the page. But first a bit of botany.

Flowers of Sinapis alba (white mustard) being worked by a bee. Lower on the stem you can see the seed pods developing. As the plant …


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Spring harvest

Posted on wo 21 april 2021 in blog • Tagged with harvest, season: spring

A sample of the species I harvested. From top to bottom and from left to right, starting in the left top corner:

  • leaf of Armoracia rusticana (horseradish / mierik)
  • leaf of Galium aparine (cleavers / kleefkruid)
  • leaf of Achillea millefolium (common yarrow / duizendblad)
  • leaf of Claytonia perfoliata (Indian lettuce / winterpostelein)
  • flower of …

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