Mushroom overload
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (6) Soaking Week 20 is a magical datum. It is the first week of the year that the shiitake logs can take a bath. Both sorts of logs, summer and …
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(Almost) No slugs!
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (5) Weather Twee weeks ago the weather was quite dry and had been for almost 6 weeks. I had kept an eye on the humidity in the Edible Wood Farm …
Crooked and creative logs
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (3) Oak hedgerow One of the locations that provided logs for shiitake last month was at the home of a couple in the countryside. A single row of oaks marked …
Waste Wood
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025(2) Woods and lanes Surprisingly there is quite a bit of forested area in the Netherlands. Not rugged enough for a survival experience but large enough to get lost in for …
Log Knotting
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (1) How do you turn a meter of a shiitake or oyster mushroom log into a sellable product? Yes, that’s right. You grab a chainsaw, cut it into predesignated lengths, …
Wet weather alone does not make a mushroom
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (9) Media Autumn is a time when you cannot avoid reading articles in the media about mushrooms. One afternoon this week I came home from a day in the forest …
Log hunting
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (8) Poor quality trees The season has begun. The hunt for 1200 suitable Edible Wood logs, a whole truckload full. The thing is, the logs are still growing. They are …
