April May Linkage

We didnt get the April linkage post out in a timely fashion, so here is a special two-month edition of the links we love. (Arent you lucky?)

Hope you love them, too!


Steam distiller for essential oils
Dans Workshop blog
Wheat Hay for Goats
What to do with not-so-good tomatoes
Root Simple Hot Sauce
Grafting plums and pears
Propagating a shiitake mushroom log for free
How to grow morel mushrooms (forgot to include this one originally!)
Annas most reliable fruit plants
Hive splitting, Taranov style
Solitary bees in a 400-year-old cob wall
Cleaning wax- and propolis-covered wire ware, such as queen excluders
Effects of neonicotinoids on bees
Autumn Joy Sedum: good bee food
Mason bee nesting experiment

March Linkage

Here are our favorite links from March.  Enjoy!

Dog and goat communication
Building with living trees
Species that do well in shade (and other worthwhile forest crops)
Birch Syrup
Smartphone microscope

February Linkage Love

Its that time again: time to pass some of our rabid electronic information consumption on to you (rabid referring to the consumption, not the information.) Hope its contagious!

Here are our especially favorite links from the month of February:

Growing Shiitakes
Making Sure Your Shiitake Spawn is Good
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Mini-Mushroom Logs
Broth Making
Good scything
Resolving what some see as cognitive dissonance in modern homesteading
Goat-sized butter churn

What were your favorites?