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 …
Edible Wood Farm
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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, …
Wet weather alone does not make a mushroom
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (9) Media Autumn is a time when you cannot avoid reading articles in the media about mushrooms. One afternoon this week I came home from a day in the forest …
Log hunting
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (8) Poor quality trees The season has begun. The hunt for 1200 suitable Edible Wood logs, a whole truckload full. The thing is, the logs are still growing. They are …
Picking Pleasure
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (7) Active Mushrooms everywhere! Well almost. This afternoon I found a group of brown boletes in between a number of old oaks close to my home. After quite a long …
Wet and Slimy
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (6) No logs No logs to sell. Definitely not an ideal situation because the current major source of income of Groene Takken is based on selling Edible Wood. Every year …
Communication frustration
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (5) Too little? Too fuzzy? Too technical? Getting the words right is an art form. And when the weather does not comply with the text, the instructions on the Edible …
