Rick and Eric talk about vermicomposting, or Worm Composting, and how to prepare the food scraps you are adding to the worm composter.
Getting your bees ready for spring is talked about. Eric adds pollen patties in the spring to his hives, and he found two dead hives when he did a late winter bee inspection. Rick says sometimes honeybees to strange things. Several of Rick’s hives starved out. Rick reminds everyone when you are feeding honeybees sugar syrup in the late winter, put the sugar syrup at the top of the hive, not in a glass jar feeder in the front lower entrance. the bees will never find it.
Rick uses a plastic zipper style bag with sugar syrup, he lays the bag of syrup across the top frames of the hive and cuts a few slits across the top of the bag so the sugar syrup will ooze out.
BeeInformed.org is a website to collect data on crashed hives in an effort to find out how many hives have crashed.
Eric talks about his recent lunch at Than Da and eats a Banh Mi Sandwich. he made a video about his visit to Sunset Park, Brooklyn to Brooklyn’s chinatown.
Rick tells us about Adam Savage’s site, Tested.com, about stuff he does, nice videos.
Eric talks about making an ikea hack dream of a folding work table.
Eric and Rick both want to de-clutter, but lament that they both need a lot of stuff to do the projects they do, like beekeeping, or beer brewing, maple syrup making. All these projects require you won stuff.
We read an email from Mike about the many failures that happen when getting to the solution.
Progress has been made on our arduino controlled beehive monitor. We got two emails about this which we read on the show. worm photo from morguefile.com
Eric and Rick talk about Sarah’s talk about how to start a catering business on the previous GF Radio show and Rick’s laproscopic hernia surgery. The success of the GardenFork email with Henry’s photo in it yielded a bunch of pet photos.
Rick joins Eric to catch up and talk seed starting! If you are listening on iTunes, please leave us a review, we appreciate it. Eric just weathered the snowstorm named something which Rick doesn’t know about. Rick took a quick trip to Florida. Eric rebuilt his cold frame hoop house to start salad greens, but learned recently that while salad greens are considered cool weather crops, the seed prefers a warmer temp to germinate. Seed germination mats is talked about and one should not use a regular heating pad to try to warm your seed trays to speed germination. regular heating pads are too hot. When is the best time to start seeds and why Eric does not like to use a window sill to start seeds. Eric’s 
Today we talk with longtime GF viewer James on how to grow hot peppers, how to dry hot peppers, and bringing your own condiments into a restaurant, and what can happen when you do that.
