Working together: week 13
During the month of March and the first couple of weeks of April all of the logs have to be innoculated and there are too many logs to do on my own. About two thirds …
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Moving trees: week 8
Getting the trees out of the forest costs alot of energy and planning. Each year it is my aim to gather 1200 suitable logs but the reality is closer to 1000. The oak trees that …
End of the year: wk 53
It is winter time. The temperature is low and the days are short. The shii-take logs have gone te sleep and will remain dormant until late spring. Outdoor work has been reduced to checking the …
(No) time to rest: week 49
Autumn was long this year. Warm temperatures during the day with an occasional cold night had triggered the shii-take logs into continuous production. In previous years the production usually slowed down to a halt around …
Virus vs fungus: week 44
How should we defend ourselves against a virus? Yes, that’s right – eat more fungus. Eat lots of mushrooms, especially the sorts of mushrooms that are known to boost your immune system such as shii-take …
Turning wood into food: week 40
Last Saturday a poplar tree was felled on the same property as the Edible Wood Farm in Gaanderen (east Netherlands). It had begun its life as a seed from a nearby poplar tree and after …
Food forests: week 27
Everybody wants one. Consumers, forest owners, organizations, municipalities, dreamers, doeners. Most of the current food forests still exist on paper: big ones, little ones, complicated ones, simple ones, commercial ones and backyard varieties. Some have …
Don’t judge a log by its bark: week 22
The inoculation season has ended. At last. About 800 hundred logs have been successfully inoculated with shii-take, various sorts of oyster mushroom, nameko and several other mushoom species. Nice shady places have been found for …
Corona virus work: week 15
And now a couple of weeks after I decided that it was better to get the logs to the people instead of people to the logs, the feeling of panic has subsided and has been …
Corona virus effect: week 13
Just like the rest of the world Groene Takken has felt the effects of the corona virus. Last week one after another of the corporate customers cancelled their workshops in March: understandable but painful. Then …
