Tag: Medelpad

Inspiring of establishment- and maintenance technicians

"I'm not working with nature, I'm working against nature. ", says Ove me after breakfast. It is roughly the opposite of what we forest horticulturists believe about ourselves, so I ask him develop and he explains: "Nature strives course in a different direction than I. I would not have removed all trees and many birch trees […]

Sweden's oldest forest garden?

Expectations were from the beginning quite high when I and three other plants interested Stjärnsundsbor would go to Medelpad in search of the elusive Loiko-walnut. We would visit Ove Johansson, who in the early 2000s somehow managed to get 100 hardy walnut seedlings from Belarus to Sweden. We knew that he was also interested in […]