Spillersboda archipelago, east of Norrtälje - Anders Grenstedt's food forest, Sweden
Anders Grenstedt has established a food forest on a small island called "Knaludden" outside Spillersboda, along the "Roslag coast" close to the small city of Norrtälje. To get there, a motorboat is required for the last part of the trip. Here, Anders has planted many interesting and beautiful trees over the years, which one might not expect would grow and thrive in these conditions - a windswept place with little rainfall and and severe droughts, many hours of sunshine, a thin soil cover and shallow or visible rocks. In the most exposed location, several sweet chestnuts have grown tall, with pecan, a hazelnut hybrid grafted on Turkish tree hazel, a cembra pine, heart nut trees, walnut and peach trees as neighbours. Along a wind protected bay, a shift from dying spruce, which is falling and opening up for planted beech and linden, is assisted by Anders. Some mighty oaks have been given more space to grow, and in more dry spots in a wetland with alders, and in what looks like former, semi-open pastures (the whole island was once grazed) walnuts have been planted (Broadview) – yielding abundant harvest. In a sheltered southern slope, large hazels (and other native trees), planted long ago by those who once farmed the land here, and which, with Anders' help, have been joined by manna ash and sweet chestnut trees.
Anders Grenstedt has established a food forest on a small island called "Knaludden" outside Spillersboda, along the "Roslag coast" close to the small city of Norrtälje. To get there, a motorboat is required for the last part of the trip. Here, Anders has planted many interesting and beautiful trees over the years, which one might not expect would grow and thrive in these conditions - a windswept place with little rainfall and and severe droughts, many hours of sunshine, a thin soil cover and shallow or visible rocks. In the most exposed location, several sweet chestnuts have grown tall, with pecan, a hazelnut hybrid grafted on Turkish tree hazel, a cembra pine, heart nut trees, walnut and peach trees as neighbours. Along a wind protected bay, a shift from dying spruce, which is falling and opening up for planted beech and linden, is assisted by Anders. Some mighty oaks have been given more space to grow, and in more dry spots in a wetland with alders, and in what looks like former, semi-open pastures (the whole island was once grazed) walnuts have been planted (Broadview) – yielding abundant harvest. In a sheltered southern slope, large hazels (and other native trees), planted long ago by those who once farmed the land here, and which, with Anders' help, have been joined by manna ash and sweet chestnut trees.
grown tall, with pecan, a hazelnut hybrid grafted on
Turkish tree hazel, a cembra pine, heart nut trees, walnut and peach
trees as neighbours. Along a wind protected bay, a shift from dying
spruce, which is falling and opening up for planted beech and linden, is
assisted by Anders. Some mighty oaks have been given more space to
grow, and in more dry spots in a wetland with alders, and in what looks
like former, semi-
open pastures (the whole island was once grazed)
walnuts have been planted (Broadview) – yielding abundant harvest. In a
sheltered southern slope, large hazels (and other native trees), planted
long ago by those who once farmed the land here, and which, with
Anders' help, have been joined by manna ash and sweet chestnut trees.
