Hot and dry
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 …
Time for a bath
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 …
The first flush
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 …
Weeds make the world go round
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 …
Forest time
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 …
Time for a bath
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 …
Small and local
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 …
Colleagues
Most of the time I relish in being self-employed and being in full control of my agenda. No unnecessary diversions, no evaluation meetings and no disfunctioning policies to complain about. On the other hand it …
Pin up logs
Every year I try something new in order to improve the results of the shii-take logs. This began after a couple of depressing years of poor results. There were always enough good logs to sell …
