It’s raining mushrooms
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (8) Hot and cold August was dry and hot. September began cool and wet. The sharp distinction between these weather types was a signal for many fungi to get on …
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Too wet or too dry
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (4) Soak moment When is the best moment to soak a shiitake log? That is one of the questions that has lingered in my subconscious for a long time. There …
Mycelium on the move
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (3) Growing season Inoculation season has ended. Thank goodness. It has been a lot of hard physical work in a relatively short space of time (March – half April) and …
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 …
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 …
