Back to the bath
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!
Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
Forest work: weeks 5-9
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 …
Women in Green
January is a great month to slow down and try to live like a hedgehog. Somehow that hibernation feeling comes naturally when you let it except it is much easier to get food out …
Starting up: week
Today I removed the last of the split oak posts and homemade rails between the posts in Doetinchem. I filled the long deep holes left by the posts with earth, leaves and pine needles so …
New destinations
It is cold outside. Darkness sets in at 5 pm and early morning frosts are not uncommon. Winter has arrived and the shii-take mushrooms now develop so slowly that you can almost hear the logs …
Looking around: week 40 – 42
The search for a new location for the Edible Wood Farm has brought me to many unexpected places. In the last couple of weeks I have been to a nut tree nursery, a prison, a …
It’s mushroom time
The past few weeks have been too busy to write a weekly blog and that is really how it should be. This weekend is a break in a busy schedule. The shii-take logs have been …
Moving on – week 34 & 35
Rain! What a wonderful phenomen. It is quite strange that people always associate rain with bad weather. The empty soaking basin had been partially filled by the many rainshowers but there was still not enough …
To soak or not to soak? – week 33
The recurrent showers and the lower daily temperature (20 – 25C) this past week had a refreshing result on a lot of the shrubs, grass and flowers. It was a relief to see the world …
