Easy to build PVC Cold Frame Hoop House is a mini greenhouse that allows you to grow salad greens and cold tolerant vegetables into the winter, and get a head start on early spring planting. This hoop house is more resistant to heavy snow than our previous versions, listed below. This is version 3.0 of...
Best Stove Top Pizza Recipe - GardenFork Video
Most fry pan pizza ain't great, but this stove top pizza recipe is truly the best. Why? Its a thin crust pizza with a nice snap, and it can be made in about 5 minutes, and you don't have to make pizza dough the day before. The key ingredient to this pizza is tortillas. Who...
Easiest Best White Bean Soup in 30 Minutes
I didn't really know what to make for dinner last night, and I had a bunch of onions in the refrigerator which I had bought at the Costco. So I thought okay, I'm going to chop up an onion and start cooking it and go from there. I took a large onion and I cut...
DIY Standing Desk and Lawnmower vs. Tractor - GF Radio 359
Rich tells us how he built a DIY Standing Desk out of Ikea parts, aka an Ikea Hack for much less than what a standing desks costs to buy. We then move on to switching from a garden tractor to a push lawnmower, what are the pros and cons of a lawn tractor and a...
Chocolate Halloween Treats Recipe - GF Video
Here's a Halloween Treats Recipe for those of you who want to go the DIY way and make their own treats for the trick or treaters. As you know I love chocolate almost in any form, and I was watching Jacque Pepin's TV show More Fast Food My Way and he did a quick little...
Locavore Garden Salad instead of PBJ for lunch
OK, what is a locavore garden salad? Its when you walk out to your garden and cut some salad greens. This all started with lunch. We were about to have lunch, and it was going to be PBJs, since it was simple and all the ingredients were there. But I have been on this kinda...
Pallet Compost Bin Plans & Photos
Here's a neat pallet compost bin we made in an hour. My pallet projects obsession continues, lately I've been looking way too much at pallets sitting on a sidewalk and thinking what can I make out of those? Charlie Pup and I went out to dump kitchen compost in our pallet compost bin. She sat...
NUTS Nagging Unfinished Tasks and how to deal with them - GF Radio
Rick and Eric talk about NUTS Nagging Unfinished Tasks and how to declutter you life. First we deal with some GardenFork news Some new changes to the GardenFork site, and a suggestion to try our web host, Blue Host, info here: https://gardenfork.tv/bluehost . Then we move on to NUTS nagging unfinished tasks. To Eric, these...
Core your apple before you eat lifehack
Here's a neat little lifehack that I thought of while wanting a snack while in the home office. I don't keep cookies or sugar type snacks in the house, because I will eat them! But I do keep fresh fruit, dried fruits, and nuts in the house to snack on, because I eat constantly. Back...
Planting a tree next to a tree stump is a challenge
We took a Mulberry tree out of our backyard, the neighbors were complaining about the berries, the pups ate the berries, not a good thing. In its place we are planting Leyland Cypress evergreens. These trees grow fast and are good at creating a green fence, which makes good neighbors. But we had to deal...
When Decluttering Your Home Think ebay
I'm on a quest to get rid of stuff I don't use, so I have this suggestion when you are decluttering your home: Sell stuff on ebay. I've had 4 fishing reels in a box at the bottom of the basement stairs for how knows how long, thinking they are worth something. Today I put them...
Find Cheap House Renovation Stuff At Metal Recycler
Cheap doesn't always mean good, but in this case finding cheap house renovation stuff paid off. With the installation of a new gas fired steam boiler, I decided to replace one of the steam radiators that is way over-sized for the space it is in. This radiator is in the common hallway, and there isn't...
Easy Spaghetti Meatballs Recipe - GF Cooks Video
What's not to like about this easy spaghetti meatballs recipe? Bake the meatballs, cook the pan sauce, add pasta and eat. Simple and easy to do, and you could use this recipe to make meatballs sandwiches as well. Nice. Our simple recipe uses meatloaf mix and a bunch of italian seasonings. We buy about 1.5...
Homemade Sauerkraut - Fermentation Progress Report
We are basing our new homemade sauerkraut how to on Leda Meredith's new book, Preserving Everything, which shows how one can make sauerkraut in a mason jar. We talked with Leda recently on GF Radio: listen here. Links to buy book at end of post ↓ I like this mason jar sauerkraut method, it makes...
Bread Free Lunch from what's in the fridge.
As I stick to my basically gluten free diet before 6 pm, which I have found to be very helpful in not having that late afternoon crash, lunch has been a challenge. I would usually make a peanut butter sandwich, or a grilled cheese sandwich, but I can't do that anymore. ( I talk about...
Tick Bite, What To Do - GF Radio 357
Eric tells about the tick bite he got over the weekend and what to do about it. He had the classic red dot around the tick bite and then a larger lighter red rash area around the it. What is key is to be able to save the tick. If you grab the tick from...
Where to buy that cast iron skillet with sections?
In our recent pumpkin cornbread recipe video, we use a round cast iron skillet with sections, a pan with the pie sections already divided. I love this pan. I can't remember where I got it, but I figured out where to buy it. Why Love a Cast Iron Pan? This skillet has edge wedge already...
Pumpkin Cornbread Recipe - GF Video
A cornbread recipe that adds in pumpkin to change it up. This will go great with chili, stews, or as a Thanksgiving side dish recipe. I love cornbread already, and when I saw pumpkin puree on sale at the store, I started to think of ways to use it, and there you go: add it...