Logs at home: week 18
These days when I sit too long in front of the computer I lose the feeling in my fingertips. Painful pins and needles are the result and after an intensive bout of swaying my arms …
Pip Gilmore
Corona virus work
And now a couple of weeks after I decided that it was better to get the logs to the people instead of people to the logs, the feeling of panic has subsided and has been …
Corona virus effect
Just like the rest of the world Groene Takken has felt the effects of the corona virus. Last week one after another of the corporate customers cancelled their workshops in March: understandable but painful. Then …
Where are my logs? week 9
Each year I have to find patches of forest with enough suitable trees that can supply all of the logs that I need for Edible Wood. In September most foresters start to think about the …
Storm wood
This weekend yet another storm raged over the Netherlands. This one had no name because it was not considered dangerous enough but it was preceded in the month of February by Storm Ciara en Storm …
Forest work
Forest work: always a time of year that I look forward to. Lazy muscles get used once again and it is nice to replace a day behind a computer screen with a world full of …
Helicon students visit Edible Wood Farm: wk 2
A groep of students from Helicon, college for Science and Envrionment, from Velp visited the Edible Wood Farm in Gaanderen last Monday (06/01/2020). Their visit was part of their program “Using Innovation”. Although the weather …
Circular farming in space
What does a trip to Mars have to do with agriculture on our planet Earth? Most of the farmer participants of the Stoppelhaene Symposium on Thursday August 30th probably asked themselves the same question. Angelo …
Back to the bath
Mid-August: A good time for the first autumn soaking of the shii-take logs! A moment that highlights the beginning of the end of the summer period and a signal that the mushroom season has begun!
Forest work: weeks 5-9
Wednesday 30th January – at last. This was the first day of felling the trees needed for the next batch of edible wood. The small forest plot in the east of the Netherlands was in …