Identifying wild mushrooms
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025(10) “Which one is it? The photo in this book (or app) doesn’t quite match up with this mushroom!” Often heard questions with a touch of frustration. Actually, identifying the mushroom …
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Give trees a chance
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (9) Trees usually take forever to grow and are still young and green when we are old and as good as bald. A mature tree supports a whole ecosystem of …
Into the unknown with the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (8) It is easy to be an expert when working with known factors but what happens when you wander into unknown territory. The Hortus Botanicas Amsterdam reached out to see …
Who wants mushrooms?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (7) An outdoor mushroom farmer has to get to grips with the relatively erratic nature of mushroom production. A harvest can be predicted and even intiated when the weather is …
Mushroom overload
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (6) Soaking Week 20 is a magical datum. It is the first week of the year that the shiitake logs can take a bath. Both sorts of logs, summer and …
(Almost) No slugs!
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (5) Weather Twee weeks ago the weather was quite dry and had been for almost 6 weeks. I had kept an eye on the humidity in the Edible Wood Farm …
Crooked and creative logs
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (3) Oak hedgerow One of the locations that provided logs for shiitake last month was at the home of a couple in the countryside. A single row of oaks marked …
Waste Wood
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025(2) Woods and lanes Surprisingly there is quite a bit of forested area in the Netherlands. Not rugged enough for a survival experience but large enough to get lost in for …
Log Knotting
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (1) How do you turn a meter of a shiitake or oyster mushroom log into a sellable product? Yes, that’s right. You grab a chainsaw, cut it into predesignated lengths, …
