Rick interviews Jo Robinson, author of Eating On The Wild Side, The Missing Link To Optimum Health. Rick bought this book – he was not sent a review copy – and like the book so much he invited Jo to be on GF Radio.
Rick and Jo talk about how some kinds of foods, like lettuce or apples, are basically healthier than other types of the same foods. There’s a lot of talk about phytonutrients, which Jo has researched quite a bit by reading a ton of case studies so you don’t have to.
Tyler tells his story of how to buy a farm. Tyler recently bought a small farm with a 3 stall barn and house on 2 acres, and he tells us about the house buying process. If you are thinking of buying a small farm or just buying a house with some land, or just want to hear us talk, listen on.
Tyler walks us through his house purchase, and how important it was to hire a good home inspector, and work with a knowledgeable realtor. Tyler’s new house is called a flip, meaning it was bought by a developer or contractor at a lower price, perhaps at a foreclosure, and has fixed up the house for resale.
A flip sale may not sound like a good idea, but thinking about it in another way, you’ve already got someone to do a bunch of the repairs that need doing.
Now being a farmer, Tyler went out and bought a chainsaw, and did the right thing and bought chainsaw chaps and safety gear. Good for him.
The Garden Tractor Dilemma: what to tractor to buy? and what attachments. Eric weighs in on whether to buy a rototiller that attaches to the back of the tractor or to get a standalone rototiller. Eric votes for a stand alone rototiller, the back of tractor rototiller seems like more work.
We move on to storm chasing, as Tyler is CEO of Allison House, the severe weather data company. Rick asks Tyler about the radarscope app , and what is the difference between the different radars available on the app. Tyler and Rick go into probably more detail than the average GF listener wants to know about radar tilts. But if you are into storm chasing, this might be interesting. Tyler uses big words like ‘step function improvement’ . Let me know.
Good podcasts to listen to? Rick and Eric review podcasts they like, prompted by a listener who asked for suggestions for podcasts, but first a bunch of cool stuff.
Rick and Eric recap Rick’s talk with GardenFork Scientist Tony about the pro and con of owning an electric car. Battery storage is key here, and Rick talks about the advances in batter storage capacity. Eric tells of using water and lake up on a hill to store energy for when you need it.
Eric touches on Steam Boiler repair, and how to set your thermostat for steam heat is coming up in a future GF Radio show
Rick insulates his house to the point that it holds heat, and he is happy. Eric is thinking of replacing the windows in his house with low E windows
Eric has created a new version of the GardenFork Labradors YouTube Channel
You can get a DVD of the Labradors if you contribute to the GardenFork Fundraiser, more info coming.
The power of medicine and how your mind can help. Rick and Eric talk about an NPR story of the affect of placebos and medicine.
Rick and Eric do a shout out to Earth Eats, a show from WFIU that they both like, Eric points out their smart use of Flickr.com to show photos of what they are talking about on the show. The producers do a very good job of audio producing.
Checking the germination rates of your seeds is easy, and we talk about how to determine the germination rate of your garden seeds.
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Let us know good podcasts to listen to, thanks.
Cheap Battery Can Store Energy for a Rainy Day: Scientific American http://ow.ly/srrC8
Half Of A Drug’s Power Comes From Thinking It Will Work : Shots – Health News : NPR http://ow.ly/su6we
How to Check for Seed Viability (Video) – Organic Gardening – MOTHER EARTH NEWS http://ow.ly/ssbK6 @GardenForkTV
#PodcastsWorthHearing : [SciFri – Michael Pollan. thinker] Can Plants Think? http://t.co/VoIBG9uCk1
#PodcastsWorthHearing : [inspired!] Overcoming : TED Radio Hour : NPR http://t.co/pndSLUWzks
#PodcastsWorthHearing : Daily Rituals – Spark – CBC Player http://t.co/TMbXc9s5MX [creativity and ritual, fascinating]
Rick talks with GardenFork Scientist Tony about the benefits of an electric car. Tony owns a Nissan Leaf electric car. How do you charge your electric car? Tony tells about charging the Leaf in his garage and remote charging stations at stores he has used.
The question many have is when you use an electric car, are you just transferring the emissions from your tailpipe to the power plant smokestack? Tony makes several good points about how much cleaner it is to use an electric car.
The power plant is much more efficient than a gasoline engine
Power plants have tight emission controls on their smokestacks.
Tony talks about the fuel savings, and they are amazing, his fuel ( electricity ) costs are so much lower with the electric car versus the gas powered car he also owns.
Range anxiety, does it happen? Tony does have another car that is gas powered and when he goes on vacation, he shops for deals on rental cars.
Rick points out the electric car sales are rising each year, and Tony says he has now seen other Leafs, electric cars, and charging stations around, not just in California. The infrastructure costs
Tony says the battery pack life has to get better for the electric car to gain popularity, cold weather limits his range to about 70 miles, really cold weather lessens the mileage. If a battery lasted 250 miles, it would be a great breakthrough.
Rick thinks electric car batteries have been holding up well, the notion of the multi-thousand dollar battery replacement has not played out, as many people go to a auto salvage yard and get a battery from an electric car chassis for a few hundred dollars.
Consumer Reports now has podcasts, the Rick likes, its much better than the dry tone of the magazine, it adds life Consumer Reports, Talking Cars.
Tony urges folks to look into buying an electric car for themselves, you can’t be scared off by second hand information. It has been a great experience for him, and Rick and Tony say GardenFork Mike is just full of it.
How to freecycle stuff on craigslist. Eric talks about his experience getting rid of clutter in his basement using the free section. And the GardenFork Labradors have their own YouTube Channel – Link Here.
Eric announces the new fundraiser to buy new equipment, its going to be a simple project. On the higher end people will get a jar of maple syrup from the 2014 sap season, and everyone will get an e-book of the Labradors. If you don’t have any funds to contribute, we will still send you an ebook, just email Eric.
Eric talks of growing up in Wisconsin, and how his friend went there recently and finds everyone in Wisconsin to be nice. Rick was raised in North Texas and finds the same thing to be true of Texans.
We then talk about the new how to block printing video, and how analog it all is and easy to do.
Motivating oneself to get going on stuff, Eric talks about getting overwhelmed on large projects, and how he focuses on a small part of the problem to start. The hardest part of starting is starting. Rick has similar projects, and is now enthused again about aquaculture and beekeeping. Both agree the winter helps to reset things, if we lived in a warm place all year round we might be worn out.
Eric tells of his experience trying to Freecycle using Craigslist, giving away a free set of kitchen cabinets, and how it took three tries to give away the cabinets. We move on to how people go through neighborhoods looking for scrap metal, and how for NYC the metal that people put in their recycle bin is a profit center for the city.
Rick asks about Eric’s How to use Spray Foam video, and the advantages of spray foam versus fiberglass insulation. Spray foam insulation if great for hard to reach spaces, and walls that have lots of cracks in it, such as stone or brick walls.
Aquaponics Books Rick likes:
Rick reads a piece about rubber boots he heard on NPR: Ode to My Sturdy Rubber Boots – by BILL HARLEY
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89130360
Talking more about citizen science, Rick tell us about some neat bird counts you can be a part of
the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, through first of year. 114 consecutive year, worlds oldest, longest running, citizen science project.
Plus you can participate in the Cornell Great backyard Bird Count in February
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
#PodcastsWorthHearing : How Many Partridges Are Really in That Pear Tree?: Scientific American Podcast
#PodcastsWorthHearing : Eating ‘Wilder’ Foods for a Healthier Diet http://ow.ly/rQooK Carrots – orange by breeding to honor William of Orange. Should be red or purple for best nutrients.
TED Talk Moron in the mirror #PodcastsWorthHearing :The Fool’s Dilemma | Ideas ow.ly/rQqiR
This TED talk starts Rick and Eric lamenting about the introduction of non-native species into North America.
Winter Solstice 12:11pm 21 December 2013 Eastern time. Rick explains just what the solstice is, and how it is different in the southern hemisphere
Beekeeping: Rick’s Bees are fed. One dead out, four hives left. Rick used the Mountain Camp system. http://www.honeybeesuite.com/mountain-camp-feeder-use-for-winter-feeding-only/
Eric is looking to rebuild his beeyard and is looking for bee nucs before they are all sold out. Rick points out that the Africanized bees are being more normal in Mexico after some work by scientists there.
Viewer mail starts our show referring back to a comment Rick made about electric cars. Then we talk about cooking diner with what’s in the fridge instead of going to the store to buy more food. With the basics, you can make all sorts of food.
Rick talks about using Consumer’s Report – new vaccum saved us from making a 300 mistake
We move on to the Alton Brown podcast, nerdiest stable, “the spice house” his favorite spice supplier
The revival of citizen science, amateur revolution on the rise http://makezine.com/magazine/citizen-exploration-an-amateur-revolution/
Rick is learning Final Cut Pro X , he says this is a great set of tutorials izzyvideo.com : http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/
Thanksgiving dinner starts the show, Eric had a french dinner for Thanksgiving, and it was good. Tre Bon, in other words. Rick liked the how to make gravy video, and has subscribed to Erica Wides audio show, Let’s Get Real. We digress into other podcasts and Rick also likes Adam Savage’s audio podcast, The Adam Savage Project Still Untitled.
Rick thinks that one of his pups may have cataracts or is losing her sight, and will take her to the doctor. Rick says to keep the dog water bowl in one place so the blind dog can map the house.
photojojo.com is a site the Eric found that has a DIY on how to make a projector out of your smartphone, plus the site has some neat smartphone additions, like micrphones, etc. Rick talks about Scancafe.com, a company that will scan your photo albums and movie film.
Eric’s computer is dying, so if you’d like to help buy a new one, there is a donate button in the right column of the website.
From SaladInAJar.com, Eric talks about different ways to make yogurt without a yogurt maker. You can watch our how to make yogurt video here
Check out Rick’s PodcastsWorthHearing.com site for neat stuff he finds in the podcast land.
Rick and Eric talk about the How To Make Gravy for Thanksgiving video that Eric made with Chef Erica Wides. The price of Thanksgiving turkeys drops around the holidays, and Eric talks about why that happens. Rick asks why turkey is just a once or twice a year food. Turkeys provide an economical way to have several meals from one bird.
Eric talks about the podcasting podcast he has been listening to by Libsyn, and it ends up Eric and the Libsyn podcast host, Elsie, have a mutual friend in Natasha, who Eric knows from the food coop.
We then move on to talking about how to make gravy, and how one has to cook out the water from the stock, water and wine, then you add in the flour. One has to keep in mind that this can take longer than you think.
Rick likes the recent roof repair video Eric did using roof tar, and we point out how permanent roof tar can be when it gets on your hands or your clothes.
Eric found a new podcast, Jack’s Farm Radio, that he likes. The host of the show, Daniel will be on our show soon.
Rick and Eric talk about the previous podcast about how to build a hoop house. Matt came on the show to tell us how he is building a hoop house greenhouse.
Viewer Mail and Baking Powder end the show.
photo from MorgueFile.com
Build your own hoop house greenhouse is today’s topic. Matt tells us how to build a greenhouse out of pipe and plastic. He is building a hoop house greenhouse using off the shelf items to save money and its going well. Matt shares what he has learned in building a greenhouse that you can apply when you build your hoop house.
Matt is using fence pipe bought at the home improvement store. He says there are lots of good kits out there, but it gets expensive quickly, and half the fun of a hoop house greenhouse is in planning and building something you designed yourself. Matt saved quite a bit of money by going the DIY route and based his ideas on those of Eliot Coleman.
The motivation was to have better foods in the winter than is available at the grocery store in winter, as hoop houses allow you to extend your growing season.
Siting the greenhouse is important, Matt built his on a slight slope that faces south, and did a bit of leveling of the foundation. He used fence pipe driven into the ground to accept the top fence rail pipe that he had curved into the hoop shape. He chose not to use PVC pipe, thinking the metal pipe would be more sturdy. The curved pipes are spaced 2′ apart. The jig he built to curve the pipe is a simple plywood curve, or a wood form. He found that curving the pipe to something slightly larger than the desired curve allowed the hoops to be slid into the base pipes with tension, helping to keep the pipes in the base pipes.
Matt has two large blue water barrels in the hoop house to create a thermal mass. The barrels absorb solar heat during the day, and give off that heat at night, helping to keep the hoop house greenhouse warmer. He decided to not use regular clear plastic, and opted for the UV stable greenhouse plastic available at greenhouse supply stores. He also used a channel system called willow wire to hold the plastic onto the hoop house frame. You can follow Matt and his adventures on Twitter here .
Rick tells us about his recent trip to Europe, and his tips for having a good time. Rick took a cruise through southern Europe, and he liked that the boat would travel at night . They used at monasterystays.com to keep some costs low, and they enjoyed it a lot. Rick’s takeaway was that after reading all the travel books that wind you up about theft while traveling was to be safe, and to use common sense to keep your camera and cash safe from pickpockets. Rick bought a special camera strap that has a metal wire inside it that keeps someone from cutting the strap to take the camera while you are not looking. Rick found that while he had packed the flash for his camera, he did not use it. Rick pointed out that the women he was traveling with did not carry purses, just under the clothes wallet or money belt.
Rick did use a Canon GPS GP-E2 on for his Canon camera that added GPS data to each picture he took, so when he was editing the photos back home, and wasn’t sure where the photo was taken, you could use the GPS data to figure out where the photo as taken.
Rick took his iPhone, and used public WiFi to check email. He removed the SIM card to keep himself from inadvertantly using the cell service, which would be expensive. He did caution that he used a VPN network when using public WiFi. And do not log into your banking or credit card passwords from any public WiFi.
We move on to mousetraps and the best way to catch mice, or the best way to get rid of mice. Rick and Eric do not like glue traps. Eric used the snap traps, the kind made of metal and wood and he is a big fan of the new electronic mouse traps that zap the mouse dead. A very simple and clean way to get rid of mice.
We then answer some viewer mail about dishwasher smells and removing a broken bulb from an oven.
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Easy Apple Butter Recipe made in a slow cooker and making your own pectin start our show with Noreen of Noreen’s Kitchen video show on YouTube. Noreen tells us how to make your own pectin, though its ok to buy your own. Noreen says if there aren’t many apples near you, you can make peach butter too.
The slow cooker does the best job of making apple butter, both Eric and Noreen agree.
We move onto a peanut butter recipe. Start off with 2 cups of peanuts, salted or unsalted, put them in a food processor. The peanuts will start to release their oil. Add a little stream of peanut oil or other oil, and then add some sugar syrup, Noreen likes cane sugar syrup. Keep the peanut butter in the fridge, pull it out 15 minutes before you want to use it. This is a great recipe for kids to make too, its just like the peanut butter making machine at the health food store. Noreen says you can freeze whole raw peanuts. She keeps most nuts in the freezer to keep them from going bad. She also keeps nuts in vacuum sealer bags.
We move onto making tortillas. Fresh tortillas are not available in many places, so Noreen tells us how to make tortillas based on her tortilla video, which we’ve place below. Noreen makes flour tortillas, rather than corn tortillas. She rolls them out by hand, and says you can use a tortilla press for corn tortillas.
We talk about the underground food economy of Eric’s neighborhood, with the guy who has the cooler of tortillas and tamales on his bike, who sells them on the avenue. Neat.
But making your own flour tortillas is super easy. Noreen prefers to use lard or organic shortening. We both agree lard is good for crusts and tortillas.
Preparing Thanksgiving dinner how to follows. Noreen makes it a stress-free event. The biggest key is making a menu! The need to sit down and plan. And if you have not roasted a turkey before, you might want to start with a chicken. Noreen has several thanksgiving recipes on her YouTube channel here.
Noreen also has several great ebooks, including one on Holiday Cooking Check them out here .
Sandor Katz join us to talk fermentation, and how to make sauerkraut, and just how much of our food is a product of fermentation. Sandor Katz is the author of The Art of Fermentation, An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World.
We talk about the ubiquity of fermented food in our world:
“So many of our food staples and gourmet treats are products of fermentation” Sandor points out. Eric brings up the bread starter he is working with based on the Tartine Bread book. Sandor points out how just adding water to flour will start fermentation. He has a starter and makes pancakes with his starter.
Buy Sandor Katz’s Books Here (affiliate link)
“Fermentation is actually a strategy for safety” says Sandor, explaining how fermentation wipes out the bad organism that can cause food safety issues
Sandor suggests starting with vegetables and a container you have in your kitchen. You don’t need any special starters. Any kind of vegetables will work, you can mix them together, add seasonings. Chop up your vegetables, add some salt, enough for it to taste good, squeeze the vegetables, bruise them to allow the salt to interact. Stuff them into the glass or ceramic jar you have, get them submerged under the liquid. You can put a plate with a weight on it to keep the vegetables under the brine. Leave it on the counter in a darker corner, with the jar slightly open. If any mold appears, scrape it off and allow the vegetables to ferment more.
You can let it ferment a week or month, and then when it tastes to your liking, you can move it to your fridge.
Sandor then talks about the cabin he is restoring with volunteer help, and the workshops he hosts. You can get more info on his site about where he is hosting fermentation workshops.
Watch our fermentation videos here
Listen to Daniel Gasteiger talk fermentation on this GF Radio episode
Easy Fermentation Recipes & Foraging Tips with Leda Meredith – GF Radio 355
Make kombucha, sake, cider and other fermented liquids on GardenFork Radio. Emma Christensen, author of True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home, geeks out with Eric about fermentation. The first ‘ah ha’ moment comes when Eric learns from Emma how to make ginger ale and use champagne yeast to add bubbles and a tang of taste along with the ginger. The dried yeast package works fine, btw.
Emma suggests a first timer starts out making soda. All you need is an empty recycled soda bottle and a juice of your choice. You can make your own juice if you want. With little work you can make DIY soda. neat.
Eric and Emma talk about how to make cider, – we have a few how to make hard cider videos here – and Emma lets us in on some tips on the best way to make hard cider. Eric wants to know whether one should try the wild yeast method or continue to sulfite the cider before pitching the yeast. Emma lets us in a a new flavor term called ‘ barnyard flavor’ as she experiment with sour yeasts. We learn that lower temperatures are best for hard cider fermentation and that some ciders can have high alcohol content, depending on the sugar content of the apples.
For experimenting with wild yeast hard cider, Emma suggests to try a one gallon fermenter, which is a brilliant suggestion. This way you don’t waste 5 gallons of cider on an experiment. Emma suggests using a 2 gallon jug or carboy for the initial 1 gallon fermentation, and then you can transfer it to a 1 gallon jug for a second fermentation and storage.
We move into how to make kombucha, which is a strong tea with a scoby added to it. Emma likes to brew kobucha herself so you can control how it tastes. If you like a sweeter kombucha, you ferment it less, and you can add ginger or fruits like pears. Cultures for Health is one place to buy a starter scoby.
You can read more of Emma’s Posts on her blog, follow her on Twitter, or read her posts on TheKitchn .
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October is National Adopt A Rescue Month, and we talk about the good vibes you get from adoption. Rick and Eric suggest adopting a mixed breed dog rather than a pure breed. While Eric does have pure breed Labradors, purebreeds are more prone to in-breeding, which can result in joint disorders, deafness, all sorts of not great health things. Rick does Cairn Terrier Rescue and notes the number of rescues has dropped a bit with the economy recovering somewhat. Read more from the American Humane Society here.
Salmonella is next, and of course Rick found this very interesting news from the CDC. The idea here is that washing a chicken before cooking it can atomize or throw into the air, salmonella. When you wash a chicken, water gets sprayed around your sink area, and with that water, the potential for spreading salmonella, which can then spread to raw foods, your hands, etc. Eric points out how careful he is with his hands and what they touch after he has been handling raw meat. The benefits of a sink faucet with one of those automatic on features is clear to us now. Eric brings up how the motion sensor on switch for the faucet can also save water. How many times have you walked away from the faucet and left it running?
Our fascination with weather continues, and the availability of great radar imagery from Allison House, the severe weather data company, learn more about them here, and download their app. (Allison House is a GF sponsor)
Standing Desks! Eric wants to build one, do you use one? Let us know. Eric is thinking some sort of Ikea hack standing desk is the way to go. Stay tuned, working on the planning phase now. Perhaps with a treadmill below the desk…
Rick suggests stepping away from the desk, he tells of sitting in the park at a table, and finding the table full of ticks while wearing shorts. Fun.
We talk about how to compost, and Eric tells of of his idea to reduce traffic congestion with zipper merges.
Rick talks about putting low rolling resistance tires on his Prius, and we recall some of the information that Daniel of MPGomatic http://www.mpgomatic.com/ told us. Listen to his appearance on GF Radio here.
We then get into hyper-miling, which Mike and Eric talked about on GF Radio here.
How To Compost is the next subject, with the new GardenFork How To compost video on composting. we talk about how to make a compost pile, and Rick wants to get an electric leaf shredder. Hot and cold composting is talked about, Rick has some suggestions on how to build a hot compost pile. We read some viewer mail and and answer composting questions. Can you just put vegetable scraps into your garden? How does the cold winter affect composting? We touch on pit composting and fence post composting as well.
Rick again is harvesting leaves collected by his neighbors, they do all the work and Rick gets free compost material for his garden beds. The electric shredder will help break down those leaves. The smaller the pieces of material, the faster they will break down.
Rick points out we did not talk about worm composting, aka vermicomposting. we plan on making a how to worm compost video, watch Rick’s excellent how to build a worm composter video here.
We move onto street photography, and the rights of people to take photographs, and Eric asks what are the rights of people whose photo is being taken? Rick brings up a recent court ruling that allows citizens to take cell phone video of police in public situations. Rick posted about this on his site here.
Finally, we would like to hear from you about other independent podcasts that you like. We love the podcasts from NPR, etc, but we would like to promote other indie podcasts.
photo by Alviman – MorgueFile
Recipe failures, and whether chefs skew their recipes on purpose when sharing them with the public, or is this a case of just poor recipe editing starts GF Radio. Eric had two recipe failures this weekend, one with pizza dough and one with sous vide slow cooker short ribs. Eric will try again for the pizza dough using a recipe from the Jan – Feb 2011 issue of Cook’s Illustrated. We talk about gluten development, over-working pizza dough, and overnight refrigerator rise. We’ve found that the overnight rise is key for pizza dough, it allows long gluten strands to develop with less carbon dioxide growth, so you don’t get big bubbles in your pizza.
Eric shows you a pizza dough recipe video here, and here is the Portable Brick Pizza Oven video.
The slow cooker sous vide controller Eric uses is from DorkFood, and it works well. Look for us to use the DorkFood sous vide controller to appear in future GardenFork videos. We have tried to hack a slow cooker sous vide controller, but realized this slow cooker sous vide rig is worth the price. Go buy it here
Are the temperatures that Modernist Cuisine states for sous vide cooking safe? Eric had the same question and found this great post by Douglas Baldwin, Sous Vide Safety, linked to by Reddit.
Douglas is the author of Sous Video For The Home Cook, which is on our wish list now. Lets see if we can get a review copy to share with you all.
We then move on to making hard cider, which will be a new GardenFork video soon!
Rick and Eric talk about photography, in a geek way, on the challenge of keeping your photo files backed up while traveling. Rick likes to shoot in RAW format for the ease of editing the photos and doing color correction, while Eric usually shoots in JPEG format, which is a compressed file format.
Eric Jaffe wrote about Tom Vanderbilt’s Why Traffic Happens talk at the Boing Boing Ingenuity Conference .
Eric and Rick talk about their great world view on traffic and driving, starting from this article. We learned of this article via Dave Pell’s great email, NextDraft, which you should all sign up for.
Rick and Eric talk about canning foods and how to can food, how to make compost and leaf composting, the benefits of massage therapy for back pain, Rick drops his camera, Hummingbirds and humminbird feeders & viewer mail.
How to grow Garlic? – fall is the time to plant, should have already ordered (be sure to mulch over) hard neck northern or at higher elevations, soft neck southern, Click here to watch our how to grow garlic videos
GF Produer Sarah’s new post on her food blog: Punctuated With Food
Bok Choy, Meatballs and Mushrooms
http://www.punctuatedwithfood.com/pork-meatball-soup-with-bok-choy-and-mushrooms/
Hotwater bath canning – vid
Feeding Humminbirds, based on information from Margaret Roache’s site – okay to leave sugar water out, it’s the lack of insects that drive them south. Jump off at Florida and the tip of south Texas for South & Central America
http://awaytogarden.com/birdnote-qa-hummingbird-migration
What to do with green tomatoes?
Leaving green tomatoes in the garden when the temps are 30-40 is the same as refrigerating them. Bring the green ones inside and put them on your counter. they’ll probably all ripen…eventually
If they go soft and wrinkly on the counter, slice and 30 or 40 minutes at 450° will do to the flavor. Put on a piece of parchment on a cookie sheet
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