Upcoming presentations (is updated)

You can find more information about each talk if you follow the links (which will be updated continuously). Do you want to book a lecture?? Feel free to email me! 2026 10 February: Linkoping, Nötodling. Organizer: FOBO.9 mars: Stockholm, Forestry Horticulture. Organizer: SoS Cultivation Associations. 16 March: Hazelnut cultivation. County Administrative Board in Uppsala County (digital lecture).23 March: Nut farming in the north, Noraström. Organizer: Naturbrukgymnasiet Nordvik. April 14: Forestry Horticulture, […]

Is sterile comfrey a risk plant?

Over the years, I have talked warmly about the sterile comfrey's many benefits. It is enormously vigorous and seems to have the ability to kick-start the dynamics of farming systems through its nutrient-accumulating ability. It is a favorite among bumblebees, can keep weeds in check and at the same time cannot spread by seeds. Recently, however, some question marks have started to appear about comfrey.

Seven years with sorcereled net cages

After the catastrophic winter 2017/2018 When we lost hundreds of trees and bushes to ravenous water sore we have used net cages of galvanized plaster net. The idea is that the relatively fine mesh cages should hold until the trees have grown from the most sore -sensitive phase. The establishment strategy that the cages are part of I described correctly 2019 and we still hold […]

Philipp Weiss one of the recipients of the 2025 year garden medal

Now it is officially! Saturday 16 August 2025 The National Association of Swedish Garden distributed the Royal Patriotic Society's medal "for merits about horticulture or beekeeping". The recipient of the year is Philipp Weiss, Sara Bäckmo and Eva Robild. The National Association Svensk Garden writes in its press release, among other things, that the award winners “unite in one's deep commitment to promoting sustainable cultivation […]

Västerås receives the Municipal Award for its work with Malmaberg food forest

Fun news! The city of Västerås receives the prestigious municipal award for its work with the Malmaberg food forest, an edible park environment where Martin Gustafsson and I have selected the plant material, designed the plantations and also carried out a large part of the planting work. The jury for the Municipal Award is the board of the association Sweden's City Gardeners, which motivates the city of Västerås to receive the award as follows: "The municipal price 2023 […]

Grow with P1 if nut farming

Swedish nut farming is becoming more and more of a talking point and now even the very popular program Odla med P1 has made two features on the subject. In the first, I talk about our hazelnut and walnut cultivations and talk warmly about the cultivation of real chestnuts. The second feature, as it was sent […]

nötodlaren_omslag_M: Acorn steaks

Acorn steaks can become real everyday food. My otherwise picky youngest son thought they were delicious and wondered what kind of meat I had used. Better grades are hard to get! Thanks to Chris Wegweiser at Holma Folkhögskola, who was the first to offer me acorn steaks. This is a variation of the recipe he used back then. Ingredients […]

Hot leaching of acorns

The most important thing when hot rinsing is to keep an eye on the temperature. In the literature, it is often stated that the acorn is "cooked" during hot leaching, but actually they are meant to be boiled, thus heated to 85–96°C. If they are cooked, the starch in the acorns begins to convert in a process called gelatinization. What happens then is that part of […]

Cold leaching of acorns

There are several different approaches to getting the tannins out of the acorn using cold water. Decisive here is to crush the acorns relatively fine, so that the surface that the water can come into contact with is large. The peeled acorns are crushed using a powerful mixer, a mortar or a meat grinder. I recommend five […]

About acorns as food

The acorn could practically overnight become the most used nut in the Nordics. The reason is that there are already today hundreds of thousands of oaks of nut-producing age - it's just a matter of starting to harvest. In many parts of the world there were cultures that had acorns as a staple food. In the Nordic countries, acorns are considered by most people […]