working on an edible wood farm
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. Nice shady places have been found for …
These days when I sit too long in front of the computer I lose the feeling in my fingertips. Painful pins and needles are the result and after an intensive bout of swaying my arms …
And now a couple of weeks after I decided that it was better to get the logs to the people instead of people to the logs, the feeling of panic has subsided and has been …
Just like the rest of the world Groene Takken has felt the effects of the corona virus. Last week one after another of the corporate customers cancelled their workshops in March: understandable but painful. Then …
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. In September most foresters start to think about the …
This weekend yet another storm raged over the Netherlands. This one had no name because it was not considered dangerous enough but it was preceded in the month of February by Storm Ciara en Storm …
Forest work: always a time of year that I look forward to. Lazy muscles get used once again and it is nice to replace a day behind a computer screen with a world full of …
A groep of students from Helicon, college for Science and Envrionment, from Velp visited the Edible Wood Farm in Gaanderen last Monday (06/01/2020). Their visit was part of their program “Using Innovation”. Although the weather …
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!
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 the east of the Netherlands was in …