Colleagues
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (10) Self-employed 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 …
Pin up logs
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (9) Improvements Every year I try something new in order to improve the results of the shiitake logs. This began after a couple of years with depressing poor results. Enough …
Bagpipes from boxwood
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (6) Symposium Usually Thursday is one of the days that I am outdoors in the forest or at the Edible Wood Farm. Last Thursday was different. This time I had …
Trees on wheels
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (5) In and out “What did you do today, Mum?” asked my 17 year-old daughter at the dinner table one evening this week. My reply, “O nothing much. Just went …
Long and thin or short and fat?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (4) Unique Every tree is different. Definitely one of a kind. A tree is perpetually adapting to its surroundings. Sun, water, nutrients, space – all necessary ingredients resulting in growth …
Building muscles
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (3) Reality Into the woods at last! What a relief it was to be able to replace a picture of a forest on a computer screen with a real one! …
Raining trees
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (2) Storm Friday January 19th was the day that I had planned to start harvesting trees for the shiitake mushroom logs. The men with the chainsaws were ready to go …
Who wants to become a farmer?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (1) Big, bigger, older, poorer It isn’t the first week of January but is the day that I have decided to start a blog. This morning I made myself clean …
