GardenFork viewers have asked for a tour of the yard, so we walked around a bit to show you what is going on in the garden and yard and the kitchen, plus of course, the Labradors.
What are you doing in your garden and home? What are you plans for the winter? Lets us know below:
Robert Ayers
Have enjoyed your website for some time. Thanks.
Steven Spahr
Thanks for the latest Video. Always a pleasure to see what's doing in your neck of the woods. Being in Southern California we prepere for winter a little differently. We make sure the BBQ is ready and the kegerator is full of beer. How about a show on Chili making? Thanks again Eric. Best, Steven
Sleepy Maggie
OMG Eric, Eric, Eric (and Camera Operator, and Henri and Charlie, and whoever else!) If you are seriously considering starting up making hard cider, PLEASE consider using water kefir in your operations (akal Tibicos) in your plans. I ordered some from Keysands (/www.keysands.com) and I've been so thrilled with my success. You can make water-kefir in non-alcoholic versions for probiotic use, but the best part is that it's such a great boon in fermented beverages. Even lambic beers, which I've been experimenting with lately. But Hard cider is by far the easiest!
The really great boon is that you don't have to worry about making sure everything is scrupulously sterile. Plain ol' "clean" is good enough! If any adverse bacteria do get in, the kefir culture is so strong. it out-competes it and wipes it out, so you end up with a safe pro-biotic beverage no matter what.
And the EASIEST beverage to brew this way is Hard Cider! Seriously, you just add a few Kefir grains to a jug of plain old apple juice (organic is best, because that way you can be sure it doesn't have anything in it that will kill your kefir or yeast) and in a week or two you have a rally nice hard cider. You can even carbonate it by adding a bit of "priming sugar" to the jug when you bottle it up. Over time, you can save your "dregs" and yeast which grows and reproduces over time, and it gets stronger (and so does your cider!) I'm so thrilled to find out it's so easy, and so is the rest of my family (well, the part of it that is over 21, anyway!)
The thought that it's "good for you" (aka "probiotic") is just a bonus that we have fun giggling about 🙂 The only challenge is finding enough people to drink up the old batch before the new batch is ready to put into the jug.
Tonia Moxley
So looking forward to the butcher block counter top video!