End of the year
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (15) Winter It is winter time. The temperature is low and the days are short. The shiitake logs have gone te sleep and will remain dormant until late spring. Outdoor …
(No) Time to rest
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (14) Last mushrooms Autumn was long this year. Warm temperatures during the day with an occasional cold night had triggered the shiitake logs into continuous production. In previous years the …
Virus vs fungus
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (13) Immune system How should we defend ourselves against a virus? Yes, that’s right – eat more fungus. Eat lots of mushrooms, especially the sorts of mushrooms that are known …
Turning wood into food
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (12) Poplar tree Last Saturday a poplar tree was felled on the same property as the Edible Wood Farm in Gaanderen (east Netherlands). It had begun its life as a …
Time for a soak
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (11) Production At the end of August there is a touch of autumn in the air and it is a good time to start the bathing schedule of the shiitake …
Fantastic Fungi
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (10) Well-treated Treat your fungi well and you will flourish. Trees will grow halfway to the moon, ferns will spread their fronds, soil organisms will never stop partying. Insects will …
Food forests
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (9) In demand Everybody wants one. Consumers, forest owners, organizations, municipalities, dreamers, doeners. Most of the current food forests still exist on paper: big ones, little ones, complicated ones, simple …
Don’t judge a log by its bark
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (8) Completed 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. …
Logs at home
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (7) Hard work The last month has been quite hard work with inoculating hundreds of logs and when I sit too long in front of the computer I lose the …
Corona virus work
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (6) Tick tick 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 …
