“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 …
Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
“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 …
“Learning”
Autumn is a busy time of the year. Not only because the logs are productive but also because mushrooms are in the heads and hands of the general public. This translates to a busy webshop …
“Competition” Week 35
This year could be called “The Year of the Slugs”. There are so many of them. My colleague in Gaanderen has already caught 2000 slugs the past month in her forest vegetable garden (about 200 …
“Mycelium”
Wet, wet, wet and sometimes dry. What a difference compared to last year. Fortunately, it is not as hot and the temperature is more or less normal. The sprinkler has only been used once this …
