working on an edible wood farm
Food forest, edible forest garden, permaculture – all are terms for ways of creating a sustainable food producing system based on the interactions between edible plants and their surroundings. Woody plants and herbs are obvious …
“Waste not, want not” is a saying that I remember from my childhood in Australia. For years I had not thought about it but probably due to the increased attention of food waste in the …
It is Sunday evening when I am writing this blog and I am still wearing my my work clothes and my muscles are tired from an afternoon shifting logs. Mushroom logs don’t particularly like hot …
June is a really busy month with work in the weekends as well as during the week which is why I didn’t get round to writing a blog earlier in June. The busy time has …
If someone wants to visit an “Edible Log Farm” then there is not that much choice. This week it was a coming and going of interested visitors…. On Friday I received a small family group …
Crazy weather! Instead of a mild and gentle spring with a daily temperature around 20C, most of the week was humid with the daily temperature reaching 30C in some places with intermittent intense thundershowers. Generally …
This week my youngest daughter started her final high school exams. For the next two weeks my agenda is conspicously empty, leaving enough room to help out in a moment of need and to ensure …
Busy, busy, busy. Sometimes there are times when you wonder why there are not enough hours in the day. When everyone wants to get in touch and when there seems to be a confectious buying …
It is the month of May and that means that is bathtime for the shii-take logs. The outdoor temperature is warm enough for the mycelium to continue its journey through the log, breaking down cell …
One of the good things about an Edible Log Farm is that it can function at almost any size – from small (starting in the first year with 30 logs) up to several hundred logs …
