Halvor Blinderen (16 June 1733 – 29 June 1804) was a Norwegian farmer noted for his progressive cultivation of plants. Halvor Haagensen Blinderen was born at Aker in

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at the family farm ''Nedre Blindern gård''. Blindern developed the farm as a model for new operating methods of agriculture. He experimented with different crops and fruit cultivation He experimented with

apricot An apricot (, ) is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ''Prunus''. Usually an apricot is from the species '' P. armeniaca'', but the fruits of the other species in ''Prunus'' sect. ''Armeniaca'' are also ...

cherry trees A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The name ...

and garden vegetables as well as

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. He is most associated with his production of large quantities of

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

es. The square ''Halvor Blinderns plass'' in

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is named after him, and a marble bust of him was erected on ''Blindernveien'' in St. Hanshaugen in

. The Main Building at Nedre Blindern has served as a

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since 1856 and from 2000 the residence of the

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.''Nedre Blindern'' (Sogn kultur- og historielag)
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Blindern gård
1733 births 1804 deaths Scientists from Oslo Norwegian farmers 18th-century Norwegian botanists {{norway-bio-stub

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