Today's been about laying down foundations for future pleasures.
We began by felling an alder. We sawed through the trunk with our two-person saw and then cut that up into sections the length of a tennis racquet. Those will be drilled later today and have shiitake-impregnated dowels banged into them, then be set out amongst the remaining alders to do their mushroom magic and produce shiitake for us.
We also picked, sorted and washed apples for pressing and now have litres and litres of juice for more cider production as well as doing our first pasteurising-for-bottling experiment with the apple juice. That's for the evening.
Now it's quinces - we've got a huge crop of the pinapple-y scented things and we don't want to waste them. So, knife in hand, it's dicing time!
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