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 …
Student visit
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2020 (1) 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 …
Circular farming in space
Agriculture 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. …
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
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2019 (3) Marked 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 …
Women in green
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2019 (2) Wilde Weelde 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 …
New destinations
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (24) Winter It is cold outside. Darkness sets in at 5 pm and early morning frosts are not uncommon. December has arrived and the shiitake mushrooms now develop so slowly …
Mushroom home
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2018 (23) Fruiting Busy days. The shiitake logs have been really doing their best and have been producing plenty of mushrooms even without being soaked. The oyster mushroom logs have been …