Husband Pieter was the 3rd VEDDER Ensign Bearer in Groessen, The Netherlands

 It is always most interesting to look back at your heritage and discovering a clear line of certain events that got passed on.

Pieter's Granddaddy Theodorus Wilhelmus Vedder, proudly holding the banner of Schutterij De Eendracht Groessen, Gelderland in The Netherlands.

Now called Schutterij EMM Groessen...

They got founded in 1895 and we presume that Pieter's Granddaddy was holding the banner on their 25th anniversary year in 1920!

Yes, our guess about 1920 was correct!

Just received this photo from EMM's chairman John de Lorijn for which we are very grateful.

So this is the banner which Pieter's Granddaddy is holding in the 1st photo!

Pieter's Dad is seen here 2nd from left...

Here, husband Pieter proudly on his Fongers bike, wearing his new special made authentic uniform.

Pieter was the commander of the Ensign Bearers and he had to travel to Amsterdam for having this historic uniform tailer made.

Pieter seen to the right. 

It was a navy blue top on a white pant.

A side note about Pieter's Fongers bike.

The rear axle had a 3-speed Sturmy Archer nave.

Pieter with his friend Jan Rutgers, had all parts re-chromed!

Feeling so proud of his almost new looking 2nd hand bike!

Thumbs Up for Pieter and Me

How MUCH one can become ONE in a Blissful Relationship...!

May 11, 2009 we both had our right thumb nail damaged from working in the yard together! 

Split right in the center...  Pieter's thumb is shown on the right.

Today we both received our Covid vaccine and on February 18, part II,

Our Dutch Mushroom Growing Training Centre Yielded YEAR ROUND TOP QUALITY MUSHROOMS!

Fig. 19. View of a Dutch standard growing room containing, as an average, 180 m2 of growing surface in shelf-beds. This picture of a first break of an off-white strain of full—grown compost out of a tunnel was taken in 1973 in one of the growing rooms of the instructional farm at the Mushroom Growers' Training Centre in Horst, the Netherlands.

What husband Pieter, above all wanted to show here, was that even back then, in 1973, we covered almost every square inch of growing surface! There is no room left for more. Because then it hurts the quality.

This was the very best learning experience for all our thousands of students. They got a tour through the instructional farm at the Mushroom Growers' Training Centre, as part of the daily practical knowledge exchange.

Highlighted here from our book: But above all a Training Centre where this theory was supported by a well—equipped modern instruction farm with year-round high production of top—quality mushrooms.

Foreword by Ir. P. Jan Smits

Teacher/Deputy Principal Practical Training Centre for 

Mushroom Growing 1980 — 1984

Berschenhoek, the Netherlands, May 2020

Contrary to others, that only talk about yield per square meter, at the Training Centre we always went for top—quality mushrooms!

This got published in the Dutch Champignoncultuur's Year Report over 1969.

Bottom you can read in Dutch: Kwaliteit 1 Quality I ca. 60 %

Kwaliteit/Quality  IX ca. 19 % (closed but less firm and less broad stem)

Kwaliteit/Quality II ca. 12 %

Kwaliteit/Quality III ca. 9 %

Over 1972 

Quality I 60 %

Quality II 23 %

Quality III 17 %

Sure would love to see any publications by other experts about their quality yields.

We have to realize that these figures as well as the above photo are from 1969 and 1972/1973.

That was again the reason for using that photo in our book.

A photo always shows far more than just words.

Related links:

modern mushroom growing 2020 - harvesting - published in Mushroom Business 

Over 1st Half of 1974 Our Mushroom Growing Training Centre Yielded 63% First Quality