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 …
Corona virus effect
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (5) Cancellations 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 …
Where are my logs?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (4) Logging season 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, especially …
Storm wood
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (3) Fallen trees 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 …
Forest work
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (2) Fresh air 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 …
