February Linkage Love

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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?

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January Links We Love

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The internet is a tremendous place for connecting rabid information consumers with useful information products like German a capella, groundhog videos, and even homesteading information.  We try to do a little of both rabidly consuming and usefully producing, but our brains are becoming full and we need a place to keep track of homesteading info we want to refer back to later on.  Hence, a new monthly collection of links we love.  Heres links we love that we found in January.  Hope you like them as much as we did!

Eating dried scarlet runner beans
Pear root stock compatibility
High-density sugar maples for sap
Super sweet sugar maples
Best tree species for Shiitake logs
Is it safe to use cinder blocks or red bricks in ovens?
Dont forget to use the phrase riding bodkin
Planning forest garden hedgerows

Furoshiki (clever ways to wrap stuff in a piece of cloth)
Solar-powered grain mill
How to age wood (for when you want to pay for new wood *and* the materials to make it look old...or if youre just interested in the chemistry thats going on)
Keeping rosemary alive indoors
How the Hencam works
Blizzard time-lapse video
How jaywalking became a crime
Dried greens for winter nutrition

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