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Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
By Bonnie On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner
This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby) from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]
It’s rhubarb season here in Denmark. Since we joined the Fødevarefællesskab (the local community supported agriculture style food cooperative), we have been able to learn more about seasonal eating–Danish style. Seasonal eating had been an important way to connect to the place we live. Over the winter, that meant a lot […]
Dyrk means ‘to cultivate’ or ‘cultivation’ in Danish. If you are gardening or growing plants, you would use the word dyrk in one conjugation or another. When I hear the word dyrk, I think about getting dirt under my fingernails, tomato plants, and worm bins. This is not too far away from the […]
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