Weeds make the world go round – week 20
This week my youngest daughter started her final high school exams. For the next two weeks my agenda is conspicously empty, leaving enough room to help out in a moment of need and to ensure …
Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
Forest time – week 19
Busy, busy, busy. Sometimes there are times when you wonder why there are not enough hours in the day. When everyone wants to get in touch and when there seems to be a confectious buying …
Time for a bath – week 18
It is the month of May and that means that is bathtime for the shii-take logs. The outdoor temperature is warm enough for the mycelium to continue its journey through the log, breaking down cell …
Small and local – week 17
One of the good things about an Edible Log Farm is that it can function at almost any size – from small (starting in the first year with 30 logs) up to several hundred logs …
Colleagues – week 16
Most of the time I relish in being self-employed and being in full control of my agenda. No unnecessary diversions, no evaluation meetings and no disfunctioning policies to complain about. On the other hand it …
Pin up logs – week 15
Every year I try something new in order to improve the results of the shii-take logs. This began after a couple of depressing years of poor results. There were always enough good logs to sell …
Tell me more… – week 14
This week the sun decided to show itself. All living things seemed to soak up the suns rays. Everywhere there was new energy and new growth, musical bird choirs and cheerful faces. It was the …
Not another hole! – weeks 12 & 13
Edible Log Farm (almost) Weekly Blog 10 holes, 100 holes, 1000 holes.??? Nope …. much more. The past couple of weeks were spent drilling numerous holes in the logs in order to inoculate them with …
Cold – week 11
Edible Log Farm Weekly Blog March and April are usually the months to inoculate the tree logs with the mycelium of the edible mushrooms. Inoculation cannot begin directly after the tree has been felled because …
Pigs – week 10
Edible Log Farm Weekly Blog On Friday afternoon I had an appointment with Farmers in the Forest Foundation about 1,5 hours away from my office. I met the three parttime farmers in a very sober …
