Tag Archives: Food

What to eat?

Posted on March 13, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Awareness is raising rapidly in our environment that what we eat affects our environment in undeniable ways. We (should) all know by now that eating too much meat has a massive influence, not only concerning animal welfare, yet most notoriously on … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Agriculture, Food, Fruits, Global change, Landscape, Landscape photography, Nature, Photography, Plants, Vegetarian | Leave a comment

Berrymania

Posted on September 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Sweden is the land of the berries. That statement inevitably pops up in your head if you roam through the Scandinavian mountains in September. Cloudberries, blueberries, lingonberries, raspberries, stone brambles, bilberries, bunchberries, they got them all, hundreds, or even thousands … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Autumn, Berries, Food, Fruit, Hiking, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scandinavia, Traveling | 7 Comments

The elegance of tea

Posted on February 12, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

For the Dutch-speaking people here: I posted a story on tea on scilogs! It tells the story how I had to buy 280 bags of tea at the local supermarket to participate in the Tea Bag Index, a cheap and … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology, Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Food, Global change, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Objects, Photography, Science, Tea, Tea bag index | 5 Comments

Amiens, the arrival

Posted on January 18, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Only 2 and a half hours of driving, some folks in a larger country might still be talking about their hometown then. But to me, it felt very much abroad when I was wandering through the biting cold at night in the city of … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Amiens, Architecture, City, Food, France, PhD, Photography, Science, Travel, Travel photography, Traveling, World | 2 Comments

Cloudberry

Posted on September 8, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

One of my all-time favourite plants in the high north: the cloudberry. The fruits look like solidified clouds and they can grow where almost no other plants survive, from nutrient-poor marches to wet and acidic heathlands. They can withstand temperatures as … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Berries, Flowers, Food, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Photography, Plants, Scandinavia, Travel, Traveling | 3 Comments

A suspicious amount of green tea

Posted on June 15, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

That I seemed to love tea, the cashier of my local supermarket noticed. A fairly unusual conversation starter, where it not that he could impossibly ignore the obvious fact: I had a cart with only green tea, 140 tea bags … Continue reading →