Small and local
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (11) Size One of the good things about an Edible Wood Farm is that it can function at almost any size, from small (starting in the first year with 30 …
Pip Gilmore
Colleagues
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (10) Self-employed Most of the time I relish in being self-employed and being in full control of my agenda. No unnecessary diversions, no evaluation meetings and no disfunctioning policies to …
Pin up logs
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (9) Improvements Every year I try something new in order to improve the results of the shiitake logs. This began after a couple of years with depressing poor results. Enough …
Bagpipes from boxwood
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (6) Symposium Usually Thursday is one of the days that I am outdoors in the forest or at the Edible Wood Farm. Last Thursday was different. This time I had …
Trees on wheels
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (5) In and out “What did you do today, Mum?” asked my 17 year-old daughter at the dinner table one evening this week. My reply, “O nothing much. Just went …
Long and thin or short and fat?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (4) Unique Every tree is different. Definitely one of a kind. A tree is perpetually adapting to its surroundings. Sun, water, nutrients, space – all necessary ingredients resulting in growth …
Building muscles
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (3) Reality Into the woods at last! What a relief it was to be able to replace a picture of a forest on a computer screen with a real one! …
Raining trees
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (2) Storm Friday January 19th was the day that I had planned to start harvesting trees for the shiitake mushroom logs. The men with the chainsaws were ready to go …
