Tag: nötodling

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, […]

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 […]

Listen to Menu in P1 about nut farming

Tips! If you missed the Nuts With Me episode of Menu in P1 that aired in December 2022 the program is still available on Sveriges Radio's website. And speaking of the media, so I have made a compilation of all relevant radio programs on this page, podcastavsnitt, films and articles where I and my colleagues participated during them […]

The nut grower's handbook appointed to “This year's encyclopedic masterpiece”

Happy news! The 17 November, the Måltidsakademien named the winners in the Meal Literature of the Year 2022. The nut grower's handbook was appointed to “This year's encyclopedic masterpiece” on the ground “An incredibly comprehensive summary of more about nuts than most people can absorb. "Cracking" massive knowledge, one could joke, for with more than 700 references, the thoroughness is monumental. You can […]

Nut grower's handbook nominated for garden book of the year 2022

Happy news! The Nut Grower's Handbook is one of 13 books that are nominated for the prestigious Garden Book of the Year award 2022. This is what Gartner Society writes in its justification for the nomination: A bible for those who are saved by nut farming - or thinking about becoming one. With many years of experience in forest gardening and growing what we eat, […]

Now the nut grower's manual is here!

A long wait is over! After more than three years of research- and writing work and many obstacles along the way, the Nut Grower's handbook is now finally available in the trade. Read the press release here. Here you can buy the book In Sweden, it is easiest to buy the book through Adlibris or Bokus. Of course, all physical booksellers can also take the book home […]

Interview with “The growers” – Episode 98

What an honor to be a part of “The growers” – one of Sweden's absolute best garden pods. In section 98 can you hear me talk about them more than 200 species of fruit, berries and nuts and many more different varieties we planted, about our almost secret little nursery and how we grow the real thing […]

Deaths walnuts really their neighbors? - Of the 2

In the first part of this post, I noted that most plants use chemicals to influence their environment to their own advantage. Best known in this context, as I said walnut plants producing the substance juglone. Juglone is a basically harmless substance found in all plants in the family […]