Forest chef
It is well known that snails and slugs like to eat mushrooms. I have never seen deer eating mushrooms but have heard many reports about their extended dietary preferances. Birds like to stand sit on …
Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
“It’s raining mushrooms”
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 with producing the next generation: mushroom making. The shii-take …
Behind the screen
August 2022: Summer, the period when mushroom logs are busy not doing anything and when an Edible Wood Farmer can creep into the office and just stay there and grow computer roots. This last summer …
“Veggie Garden”
June 2022: What can you expect to find in a vegetable garden? The answer is quite obvious and can also include fruit such as berries, an apple tree or two and a range of aromatic …
“The Big Mushroom Dinner”
May 2022: An edible mushroom dinner in May? It is no big deal buying mushrooms at the market or in the supermarket but using everyday mushrooms does not have the attraction or challenge of presenting …
“Too wet or too dry”
July 2022: When is the best moment to soak a shii-take log? That is one of the questions that has lingered in my subconscious for a long time. There is not much precise information about …
“Mycelium on the move”
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 it has to go on whatever the weather. …
“Leaves or slugs? ” – week 13 2022
“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 outdoor temperature in March has hovered around …
“GROWING PAINS” WEEK 9-2022
And here we are again. At last. After failing twice in trying to work out how to handle behind-the-screen lay-out changes by myself it is nice to be able to tap into the computer skills …
“Autumn inoculation” week 46
Oyster mushroom in willow, nameko in oak and black poplar mushroom in poplar: just a few of the mushroom species that were inoculated this week. The logs were the leftovers from a forest thinning in …
