Old-school Style Beekeeping, Alcohol Distilling, and Discovering the Herbalist Within

It's been another week, and I remember seeing some pretty neat posts during the last seven days. But where? Which ones? Where did I find that really cool post? No worries, some of them I managed to save, to present to you today. And I really hope to have more of them in less time. For now, these are my current picks: 

Extracting Bees From A Large Log by @daddykirbs 

What must the first beekeepers have been like? Back when people took the first step from merely eating wild honey as they found it, to actually taking the bees into their care. These two fascinating videos by @daddykirbs give us some idea of what it must have been like to encounter bees in a log, and move them over to a home prepared for them... minus the modern equipment, of course, but still fascinating.

Make Your Own Biofuel! - Save Money – Become More Self-sufficient – Why Still? by @gardenbsquared 

Alcohol is important. Not only to add life to any party, but also to clean and disinfect things, as well as to burn for fuel. While alcohol can easily be purchased, it is really not that difficult to make. @gardenbsquared explains in great detail how this can be done with very basic infrastructure. There are two stills presented, each one as simple as they come, but each with its own advantages. If you have any reservations @gardenbsquared addresses the most common concerns regarding  home distillation, and offers reasons against them. 

Borage; a paradigm shift by @healingherbs 

What is an herbalist and what do they actually do? If you don't know the exact answer to this, don't worry, you may not be the only one. @healingherbs relates in this beautiful post how she discovered her passion as a child to become an herbalist, and how the adult world responded to it. I found this article shockingly eye-opening regarding the general ignorance of our modern culture in the simplest things. It makes me realize what an amazing blessing the Internet really is. 

I hope you enjoyed these three posts. There is more to come... hopefully before next week.