Camilla plum barn
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The ethics of foraging, the Nordic diet and a garden dedicated preserving biological diversity and testing the limits of what can be grown in low latitudes.
Collingwood Branch President, Margots account of her visit to the farm of the redoubtable Camilla Plum
When our CWA State President commented in our magazine on the amazing variety of berries grown in Scandinavia it piqued my interest.
I was in Denmark last June and a quick google of ‘berries’ led me to Fuglebjerggaard Farm – about 55km north of Copenhagen.
I rang ahead and settled in on the local bus from Helsingør home of Kronberg, Hamlet’s Castle for a one hour ride.
The bus spun along through villages, emerald green farmland and splashes of dark forest for an hour and I hopped off at Hemmingstrupvej where a hand painted sign pointed me a kilometre down a small road to Fuglebjerggaard Farm.
Camilla Plum’s farm was higgeldly piggledy just like the road sign.
I knew I’d arrived when I saw the old farmhouse through an avenue of gnarly trees. The farm includes a cafe, barns, plant nurseries and a walled garden. It’s surrounded by farmland.
A tractor was baling hay and I admired orchards bright with
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An intense week spent at Fuglebjerggaard, the vintage farm, kitchen and home of Danish food legends Camilla Plum and Per Kølster in Helsinge, Denmark. No shortage of work from the kitchen, to farm, barn, plant nursery, and around the farmhouse in preparation for the annual harvest festival held every September where over 3, guests make an annual pilgrimage to eat some seriously good food.
I was invited to organize a DIY shoe garden exhibition for the festival. For two days a jumbled mound of used high heels, sneakers, galoshes, boots, work boots tumbled out onto the grassy field where the festival was held. Visitors were invited to choose an herb plant and a shoe to reappropriate into a take-away garden with instructions to put it in a public place near their home and care for it. A simple and poetic action to create a network of small public gardens in Denmark reminding people that they can participate in public space and why not grow food in the city?
Denmark,
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Camilla Plum
Camilla Plum (født september) er ett dansk gastronom. Camilla Plum er uddannet arkitekt, dock har siden drevet den økologiske gård Fuglebjerggaard inom Nordsjælland. Hun har skrevet bøger angående madlavning, havebrug og bagning, og hun har lavet DR2 madprogrammerne Boller af stål og Camilla Plum og den sorte gryde. Camilla Plum er desuden foredragsholder, forfatter og madskribent for Politiken, og hun har lavet en række madprogrammer for Danmarks Radio.
Biografi
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]Hun er datter af Niels Munk Plum og fru Lise Plum, der igen er datter af entreprenør H.J. Henriksen som grundlagde H+H Beton. Camilla takkede som ung nej til sin sektion af arven fra forældrene, og formuen blev inom stedet brugt til at grundlægge Enkefru Plums Støttefond. Pengene (ca. millioner kr.) er inom dag væk og hævdes at være brugt til fondens advokats honorarer og bestyrelsesmedlemmernes egne projekter. Fonden lukkede inom januar tillsammans med et underskud på 25 millioner.[1][2][3]
Lise Plum arrangerede, mens hun levede, at Camilla kunne overtage Danmarks første økologiske restaurant Cap Horn i Nyhavn i København, som Lise Plum ikke kunne drive på grun