Corona virus effect: week 13
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 …
Categorie: Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
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 …
Storm wood: week 8
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: week 4
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 …
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 …
Back to the bath: week 34
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!
Women in Green: week 4
January is a great month to slow down and try to live like a hedgehog. Somehow that hibernation feeling comes naturally when you let it except it is much …
Starting up: week 3 2019
Today I removed the last of the split oak posts and homemade rails between the posts in Doetinchem. I filled the long deep holes left by the posts with earth, …
It’s mushroom time week 36 – 39
The past few weeks have been too busy to write a weekly blog and that is really how it should be. This weekend is a break in a busy schedule. …
Moving on – week 34 & 35
Rain! What a wonderful phenomen. It is quite strange that people always associate rain with bad weather. The empty soaking basin had been partially filled by the many rainshowers but …