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...
Plywood Boat - Fail or Float? - GF Video
The Improved One Sheet Plywood Boat with fiberglass seams. How to build a plywood boat despite just about everything going wrong... The perfect DIY project! What started out as our EPIC Plywood Boat video featuring the Ford F150 Limited that Ford loaned us for the weekend instead became a story of perseverance despite record low...
How To Make Kombucha, Sake, Cider, Beer with Emma Christensen - GF Radio 315
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...
Adopt A Rescue Dog and Feel Great - GF Radio 314
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...
DIY Cider Press Video - GF Video
Homemade cider press built by my neighbors Gene and Priscilla. A hydraulic cider press that uses found materials from a log splitter and a tree chipper, Gene built this from parts he had. Use this video and the photos here as a basis for your own cider press plans. This is really cool to use,...
How To Harvest Garlic - Grow Garlic Video Series - GF Video
Learn you how to harvest garlic properly, and how to store your garlic. We showed you how to grow garlic in the first of our grow garlic videos - link below - and now its the middle of summer and time to harvest and store the garlic. The question I get most often is when...
Quick Cherry Tomato Recipe
An easy cherry tomato recipe for last minute dinner. You're tired, and not sure what's in the fridge, and you need to make dinner: this is me all the time. I saw some cherry tomatoes on the counter and thought about our roast cherry tomato recipe video. So in go the cherry tomatoes under the...
Rainwater Collection With Recycled Materials - GF Video
Build a Rainwater Collection system using recycled materials from your yard and the town dump! This rainwater harvesting setup uses recycled rain gutters and recycled water tanks to collect rainwater for your garden. Super simple to put together, this rig is on our friend Priscilla's small farm. To do this, they used some found materials,...
How to save tomato seeds - GF Video
Learn how to save tomato seeds from tomatoes in your garden. Watch our video, its super easy to do. Tomato seed saving works best with heirloom and non-hyrid tomatoes. Seeds saved from hyrbrid tomatoes will not yield the same tomato variety. Save Tomato Seeds For Next Season Simple right? Its not hard to save tomato...
More On How To Compost & Photography - GF Radio 313
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...
Chainsaw Cutting Firewood
Chainsaw Cutting Firewood this weekend, we dropped a dead cherry tree and we're now using a chainsaw to cut the tree into firewood. For this to work, we use a timberjack, also called a peavey, to move the tree sections. Save your back, buy one of these chainsaw tools! Chainsaw Cutting Made Easy A timberjack,...
Zucchini Recipe - Squash Pancakes Recipe
An easy zucchini recipe for your zucchini squash harvest: Zucchini Pancakes! I had bought a load of yellow squash and zucchini at the general store and thought i'd just saute some of it for dinner. Then I saw the Mark Bittman Cook Everything Vegetarian tome that I had pulled out earlier to look through. In...
Composting 101 - Backyard Composting Basics - GF Video
Composting! Learn how to compost in this video. What food can you compost? What food should not go in the composter? What kind of bin should I buy or build? Watch the show and let us know your thoughts in the comments below. To compost in your backyard, you'll need a bin of some sort....
Recipe Failures! - GF Radio 312
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...
Spiced Pearsauce Muffins Recipe
Sometimes I literally work for food, like last week when Eric brought by a mix of Bosc and Bartlett pears. They were speckled and imperfect but still beautifully fall, boasting shades of yellow and green fit to make the barely-changing leaves here in Brooklyn jealous. We ate some with the most minimal of processing -...
How to Can - Canning Tomatoes, Fruit, Vegetables : GF Video
How to can video! Learn how to can food: apples, peaches, can tomatoes, vegetables. Canning food is easy using the waterbath method. Use a big pot you already have as a canning pot and buy a funnel and a grabber tool and you are good to go. Home Canning How To This waterbath method is...
Canning Food = Good : GF Radio 311
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...
Rick and Eric are back! GF Radio 310
Rick and Eric talk about renovation, recording podcasts, and the usual rick and eric stuff. and how to frost your glass. photo by morguefile