Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2026 (5)
About twenty students and one invited parent listened attently to my Edible Wood presentation this Sunday afternoon. It took place at the Wageningen Student Farm as part of a small celebration birthday festival – 10 years old!
My involvement started many years ago just after the start-up phase. It was a conscious choice not only because of my previous connections with Wageningen but also due to my wish to expose a young international dynamic community to the possibilities of working with Edible Wood.
We have an agreement. The students help me once or twice a year with carrying felled logs out of the forest and / or assist with innoculating the logs. Shiitake on oak. In exchange I supply them with material for making their own mushroom logs and give them tips and advice. A tricky part of keeping the Edible Wood Farm alive and productive is making sure that the right cultivation information is passed on to a successor. Students do not remain students and usually move on after a couple of years.
Who knows where this will lead to? Maybe someday one of these students will be in the right place at the right time to start up their own Edible Wood Farm whether that will be in the Netherlands or abroad. Whatever their destiny will be it is always nice to be part of the energy and curiosity of a younger generation at the start of an unknown future.
