Forest work
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 …
Helicon students visit Edible Wood Farm: wk 2
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 …
Circular farming in space
What does a trip to Mars have to do with agriculture on our planet Earth? Most of the farmer participants of the Stoppelhaene Symposium on Thursday August 30th probably asked themselves the same question. Angelo …
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!
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 …
Eetbaar Hout op TV
De Grote Tuinverbouwing, SBS 6 zaterdag 10/11/18 17.00 uur en zondag 11/11/18 10.00 uur
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 …