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 …
Categorie: Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
Fantastic Fungi: week 31
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 …
Food forests: week 27
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 …
Don’t judge a log by its bark: week 22
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 …
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 …
Corona virus work: week 15
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 …
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 …
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 …