Category: Podcast

Rick joins Eric to talk about the DIY moment Eric had when he realized he could order replacement batteries instead of sending off a piece of equipment for repair. Might be obvious to everyone else, but not Eric.

We both love www.transom.org , a website devoted to helping people craft superb audio stories for radio and podcasting. They have a whole section of how to articles on recording, editing, and fine tuning audio productions that are very helpful to podcasters.

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Jacqueline, a GF listener writes in to tell us about her kombucha success.

Jim suggest timestamping the GardenFork podcast episodes.

Mrs Gross tells about taking too long to make dinner and making pancakes instead.

And Chris is all about listening to GFR at work.

Erik Knutzen of the website and podcast Root Simple joins Eric to talk about toasters, straw bale gardening, grey water systems, etc. In other words, a typical eclectic DIY show from GardenFork.

Erik has been on the podcast a few times, listen as we talk about how to make furniture.

Here are links to some of the topics we talked about:

With his partner Kelly Coyne, Erik is the author of two books:

The Urban Homestead a guide to self sufficient living

Making It: Radical Home Ed for a Post-consumer world

Straw Bale Gardening  project

Erik and Kelly talk about whole grain bread baking on their podcast.

Erik learned about greywater systems on Oasis Designs. His system waters the avocado tree in his yard.

You can purchase the stovetop toaster, the DeltaToast here.

I was a guest on the Root Simple podcast, listen to the fun here.

Listen Root Simple Podcast on iTunes.

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Eric reads viewer mail, and we hear about how us talking about our dog’s cornea scratch, and how we treated it, helped a listener. We also talk about keeping bugs out of your mouth. Then we read more viewer mails.

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It’s 8 pm, its eric, and a glass of wine. So we talk about making ramen, of course. Cause that’s what we’re probably having for dinner. Then we segue to the PBS show Wolf Hall, and then Elon Musk’s new battery for your house.

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Archive show with Daniel and Mike talking cheese curds and more, here is the info from the original show:

Daniel Delaney of The Hungry Pedaler and Vendr TV joins us to talk about apple butter and pie crusts, Maritime Donairs, and we discuss Anne Raver’s NY Times article about using newspaper to smother weeds in a new garden bed, and where one can buy cheese curds.

our song of the week is How Far, Jamison Young’s website is JamYoung.net

Jozi’s post on Maritime Donairs is here

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Archive Show! Eric wings it solo, as Mike is busy with the real world of work. We talk about salt water fishing inspired by an article by Keith Wagstaff of EdibleBrooklyn on East River Fishing &  Ben Sargent of brooklynchowdersurfer.com . A lengthy honeybee & beekeeping update, Daniel Delaney’s new venture, EatersDigestNYC.com a weekly email about food events in New York City, Tracy skypes in to talk about single serving brownies, Julie and Tim Kirby call in to talk about bees, home made liquor, and harvesting berries. Julie’s website is http://www.fiddlesticks.uk.net

Single Serve Brownie
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons cocoa
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons  beaten egg  (give the leftover beaten egg to your dog)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons flour
1 pinch salt
2 tablespoons chopped nuts
·          Melt the butter in the microwave.
·          Add the cocoa, mix until blended.
·          Add the sugar and mix well. 4 Stir in the egg substitute and the vanilla.
·          Add the flour and salt and stir until just blended.
·         Add nuts if desired.
·         Pour batter into a greased ramekin ( I use a 5 inch round, 1 inch deep terra cotta bowl – makes a thin but tasty brownie!). Bake at 350 for 10 – 15 minutes. Top will be shiny and the sides of the brownie will start to pull away from the edge of the pan when it is done.

Rick and Eric talk about starting seeds and gardening, because its finally spring, at least for a few days. We then move on to boiling sap with the new DIY Maple Syrup Evaporator, and Eric tells of his trail run with the new rig.

We segue to getting rid of stuff, and talk about a new website called Next Door Neighbor , that allows you to have a neighborhood forum. Rick likes it, his town uses it very well, Eric has not had as much experience with it, but it worth checking out. Rick has used it do sell off un-needed items.

Rick is moving forward on his office-shed thing. Rick is working with a neighbor who has experience, which is a good thing with Rick. The challenge is to get wifi into the shed, the answer is probably to run an ethernet cable out there.

We touch on beekeeping and some thoughts on the Honey Flow system people are talking about. And there is the bee winter survival survey at www.beeinformed.org

We end with viewer mail from 3 fans.

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Rich Gee, our resident executive coach joins Eric to talk about an eclectic mix of things. A wide ranging discussion begins with the Laurel Diner in Southbury, CT and then Eric’s fondness for the Waffle House.

Rich tell us about his love of the Snow Wolf a neat snow removal shovel, info here: http://amzn.to/1Af1ULS

He learned about the snow wolf from a website we both like, Cool Tools http://kk.org/cooltools/

We both like Stabilicers, those strap on ice cleats that keep you from slipping: http://amzn.to/1KSGxeG

Super important data protection begins with online backups for Rich, Eric uses a hard drive dock to back up media to bare drives, here is the video describing how to change the hard drive in an external hard drive: https://gardenfork.tv/external-hard-drive-repair-replacement-diy-video

We then move on to troubleshooting your heating system, Rich was able to narrow down his heating problem to a controller on one of the heat zones of his house. It does help to check the obvious things first, like are the batteries in the thermostat working. Check…

And we close with our love of stovetop pizzas, what a simple yet brilliant idea: https://gardenfork.tv/best-stove-top-pizza-recipe-gardenfork-video

You can learn more about Rich and his executive coaching work at www.RichGee.com

Where has Eric been, talk about the use of archive shows, playing previous episodes of GardenFork Radio and how do people like that?

Next subject is the aging of your parents and getting a financial and medical power of attorney to be better prepared for helping them later in life. An advanced medical directive is just as important.

Finally Rick talks about Walden and living deliberately. Which basically living life while actually being actively aware of it, not just living life in a blur, letting the world schedule your life and not taking part in living it, just going through the motions.

Meditation apps  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/meditation-for-a-good-nights-sleep/

Rick talks about the book 10% Happiness book: http://amzn.to/17KIJmd

Here is his review: http://rhkennerly.com/book-review-10-percent-happier-by-dan-harris

Rick likes how Consumer Reports works for both Maximizers and Satisfiers, here is a link to a podcast they did http://htl.li/JFXnB

Here is the link to the tomato weaving video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSf3aSj46jo

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From the archives: How not to sand a wood floor is just part of this week’s GardenFork Radio. We also talk about hydroponics, aquaponics, composting, chainsaw safety, and some new viewer mail!

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Rebroadcast of an earlier show, as I am traveling and blanked on posting a show before I left town. In this one, Rick and I talk about unique protein diets for dogs that may help them with skin issues and food allergies. Then we touch on sous vide cooking for a minute, and of course beekeeping.

Dashcams, cameras that are mounted on the dashboard of your car, are a topic today also. Having a dashboard camera may help if you are in an accident.

Eric brings up his new favorite book, Modernist Cuisine, about food safety and how to disinfect your kitchen sponges. Eric tries to disinfect his kitchen sponges in the microwave and discusses what happens next. Rick touches on the correct way to crack eggs before adding them to the bowl you are mixing them into.

Finally we read viewer mail about dogs in the kitchen. You know how this ends.

Seed Starting in cold frames starts the show, as its time to start seeds indoors and you can use a cold frame or a hoop house to get a head start on your growing season.

This brings us to grow lights, with the GF grow light videos on our site, and Eric saw some LED  shop lights and was thinking of how they would do as grow lights.

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This leads us to LED conversion for recessed lights, esp good for lights that are high up. There are several models available, and don’t need to be replaced very often, plus they save energy.

Yogurt has sugar. Eric just realized this, Rick already knew this. A cup of french vanilla yogurt has 22 grams of sugar. wow.

Safety at train crossings is  next, if you are stuck on a rail crossing with the barriers closed down around you, drive through the barriers, they are designed to break.

Viewer mail from South Africa on lentils and beagles, Eric and Rick talk about lentils for a while. Then we move on.

Rick has been using an add on for Evernote called Reflect.

Nitrogen run off article talks about how run off really happens.

Birds are ok with quad copter drones, according to Scientific American, Eric is less ok with them.

Today Eric talks about the Best Pressure Cookers that you can use to can foods, where to find flax oil, and polenta & grits.

First we talk storm preparedness, and the wisdom of shutting down the roads. The roads in the tri-state area were closed for Winter Storm Juno, and accidents were minimized. Here is the NY Times article about storm modeling.

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Checking on your neighbors during a storm is a great icebreaker. Is there a neighbor you don’t know well but might need some help? Offer in a way that doesn’t seem like they *need* help. But its a good way to get to know your neighbors.

Viewer Mail

Eric fixed the banana bread recipe to include the egg.
Making pizza in the fireplace, here is our fireplace pizza oven video

We talk about how to make polenta, here is our polenta video and the use of baking soda, and an article lucky peach about baking soda and making cheater ramen noodles.

A question about where to buy flax oil to use in our how to season cast iron video.

Praise for the Fagor pressure cooker, which you can use as a pressure canner, though I have not done so. Here is our pressure canner buying guide. Here is a link to the Fagor Pressure Cooker – Canner on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1tMiKVy

Rick and Eric ponder whether polenta is the same as cheese grits. Rick likes cheese grits, but not regular grits. More information on that if you want. Just ask Rick.

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Eric talks about building a DIY canoe our of plywood and whether using the PL brand of construction adhesive that comes in a caulk tube would work well in the place of the epoxy fiberglass putty one must make for the wood joints of a boat. This is based on comments from the original Plywood Boat video we did, and a great post on Instructables.

Have you built a wood boat? Would like to hear from you. [email protected] is the email.

We will be recording new GardenFork Radio podcasts later this week, here is an archive show from 2 years ago, its a good one about seed starting.

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Here are the  notes from this archive show

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 how to build a grow light video is talked about, and how one should not mix up the color temperatures in each fixture of the simple grow light.

Building plastic greenhouses, how to use PVC pipe for greenhouses, and why you might consider UV stable plastic when making a hoop house or cold frame. Rick tells us some of  his experiences in the plastic greenhouse he has his hydryponics system in, and how the raccoons have ruined a lot of his project.

Rick is going to try tomato grafting, he has ordered tomato root stock and is on the way , he will update us as  he goes along.