Hot and dry
2018 (23) 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 …
Time for a bath
2018 (22) 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 …
The first flush
2018 (20) 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 …
Weeds make the world go round
2018 (19) 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 …
Forest time
2018 (18) 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 …
Time for a bath
2018 (17) 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 …
Small and local
2018 (16) 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 …
Colleagues
2018 (15) 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 …