Leaves or Slugs?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (2) Early “Oeeee! There is another one. That is early in the season.” They are here already. And active. Small, squishy and hungry. Slugs and snails. But especially slugs. The …
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Waiting for the leaves
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2021 (3) Sun Spring is in the air. Now and then the coat can be left at home and there is an incidental warm t-shirt day. The air is often a …
Moving trees
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2021 (1) Strong legs Getting the trees out of the forest costs alot of energy and planning. Each year it is my aim to gather 1200 suitable logs for shiitake but …
Time for a soak
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (11) Production 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 shiitake …
Don’t judge a log by its bark
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (8) Completed 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. …
Where are my logs?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (4) Logging season 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, especially …
Back to the bath
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!
Forest work
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2019 (3) Marked Wednesday 30th January – at last. This was the first day of felling the trees needed for the next batch of edible wood. The small forest plot in …
To soak or not to soak?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (21) Spontaneous 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 …
