Time for a soak: week 36
At the end of August there is a touch of autumn in the air and it is a good time to start the bathing schedule of the shii-take logs. The …
working on an edible wood farm
At the end of August there is a touch of autumn in the air and it is a good time to start the bathing schedule of the shii-take logs. The …
Treat your fungi well and you will flourish. Trees will grow halfway to the moon, ferns will spread their fronds, soil organisms will never stop partying. Insects will multiply, birds …
Everybody wants one. Consumers, forest owners, organizations, municipalities, dreamers, doeners. Most of the current food forests still exist on paper: big ones, little ones, complicated ones, simple ones, commercial ones …
The inoculation season has ended. At last. About 800 hundred logs have been successfully inoculated with shii-take, various sorts of oyster mushroom, nameko and several other mushoom species. Nice shady …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …