Looking around: week 40 – 42
The search for a new location for the Edible Wood Farm has brought me to many unexpected places. In the last couple of weeks I have been to a nut tree nursery, a prison, a …
Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
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. The shii-take logs have been …
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 there was still not enough …
To soak or not to soak? – week 33
The recurrent showers and the lower daily temperature (20 – 25C) this past week had a refreshing result on a lot of the shrubs, grass and flowers. It was a relief to see the world …
Rain – week 32
The last load of logs was unloaded at a nearby urban vegetable garden complex on Monday morning. This was to be their temporary home until the water shortage problem at the Edible Wood Farm had …
Evacuation plan – week 31
Monday was an office day. A day to rest the weary muscles after lifting 1.5 tons of logs in and out of the soaking basin yesterday. A time to think, take stock of the situation and …
Drought – week 30
No more water. Forbidden. Started this week. Immediately. The use of ground water for agricultural or other purposes is no longer possible. Drought. The Netherlands, the land of water, built on top of water is …
A Forest full of Food – week 29
Food forest, edible forest garden, permaculture – all are terms for ways of creating a sustainable food producing system based on the interactions between edible plants and their surroundings. Woody plants and herbs are obvious …
Wrinkles – week 28
“Waste not, want not” is a saying that I remember from my childhood in Australia. For years I had not thought about it but probably due to the increased attention of food waste in the …
Hot and dry – week 27
It is Sunday evening when I am writing this blog and I am still wearing my my work clothes and my muscles are tired from an afternoon shifting logs. Mushroom logs don’t particularly like hot …