Make this simple rhubarb cake and and learn how to cook rhubarb in this easy cake video. This rhubarb recipe is based our Peach Dump Cake Dessert Recipe video, link here. What's great about this recipe is that it doesn't take long to bake and you're ready to go out in the yard instead of...
Matty's Weed Fabric : GF Radio
Rick and Eric talk about using a heat gun to melt the wax caps off of honeycombs Eric asks if there is an intellectual property lawyer who might help out GardenFork Then talk moves to spray foam insulation and sheetrock on ceilings and viewer mail with Matty!
Foraging For Wild Garlic : GF Video
Foraging for edible plants in the spring includes looking for edible wild greens like wild garlic, also called spring garlic. This edible wild food is one of the first plants to start growing after the long winter, and is ready for your dinner plate. Wild Garlic looks like a young scallion plant or chives, and...
The Zen of Basic Knife Skills
#PodcastsWorthHearing : the Zen of Knife Skills (vids) - rhkennerly http://ow.ly/lBKkd First knife fight I ever saw was at Ft. Devens. Oddly it was at breakfast, at the butt-crack of dawn no less, in the chow hall. The fight was over the last cup of Black Cherry Yogurt. Good stuff, I'm sure, but not worth...
The Future Always Wins : GF Radio
Eric tells about driving the 2013 Ford F150 Limited in downtown Manhattan, as well as using the truck up at the CT house. A big thank you to our Mike and Scott and Mary Beth at Ford for making that happen! Rick brings up the illegal importation of honey, read more here: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/02/honeygate-sting-leads-to-charges-for-illegal-chinese-honey-importation Eric talks...
DIY: Fixing a Balky HOME button on an iOS device
Well, actually a "work around." For some weeks the black HOME button at the bottom of the screen on my iPad 2 has been...let's say moody, uncooperative. In a word "balky." Like me, it only works when it wants to and is unpredictable in its work ethic, also like me. I'd done some research on...
Rick Falls Out Of A Truck : GF Radio
Rick gets a bee swarm call and ends up on the ground. there are more notes, but i will have to post them later, OK? have to go to work now. thx! eric.
DIY Bee Vacuum Video
Make a DIY Bee Vacuum. Usually a beekeeper can just shake a swarm of bees into the bucket and walk away. Every now and then, however, a vacuum is the only way to get the bees. In this short video, Rick shows how he constructed a bee vacuum for less than $25.
Just Build and Fail with Mike : GF Radio
Mike and Eric talk bout Mike's electronics fabrication startup, DK Pinball, and his recent trip to the Midwest Gaming Classic with his PIG pinball interface device. Through this story we learn again that most of us learn by failure, and not to be afraid to try, to not come up with excuses for not doing...
Raised Bed Garden Plans For A Self Contained Garden : GF Video
This raised bed garden plan video is perfect for a school garden project, or for building raised beds on a concrete or asphalt playground. This kind of raised bed is also good for raised beds on top of contaminated soil. This self contained raised bed is a plywood box supported by concrete blocks, a plastic...
Easy Window Install & Using Spray Foam
I helped a friend install replacement windows today. The original windows were double hung sash weight windows, quite old. Wanted to show you a few things about how to install replacement windows. To install new windows, you first have to remove the old ones. This is not hard. We will be using the frame of...
Dandelion Greens : Info, Recipes, Videos
Pulling some dandelions in our of our raised vegetable garden beds this weekend, I was able to pull some of the dandelion greens out whole, with their taproot. wow. The raised beds have great garden soil in them, and they weed easily; with little work the long taproot came out with the dandelion plant. Dandelions...
Birdhouse Kit Repair
After a year, one of our birdhouses we made from a birdhouse kit had been chewed open by the squirrels to the point where the entrance hole was too large for most birds. The cavity nesting birds we attract to the yard are mainly Chickadees and Nuthatches. In addition to having several kit birdhouses, we...
In Memory of Mij, Labrador Video Memorial : GF Video
Mij, our neighbor's Yellow Labrador Retriever who appears in many GardenFork videos, passed away recently. I went through a lot of the video clips we have of Mij and put together a DVD for his family, and then we decided to share it with all of you as well. Here is 12 minutes of Labradors,...
Whole Wheat Tuna Dog Treats Recipe - Adorrable Dor
Wholewheat Tuna Dog Treats -Adorrable Dor Hey Allemaal! -which means everyone in Dutch- Finally we are getting some decent spring weather, and boy do we need it. I think we are about 3 to 4 weeks behind normal spring growth and my garden is poised to explode with greens and all kinds of flowers. Now...
Birdhouses, Arugula, and Daylilies - GF Radio
Rick and Eric talk building bird houses, removing a swimming pool from Rick's yard, foraging for daylilies. And then there is Eric's secret to inner peace! Links: Birdhouse Video Swimming Pool video Foraging for daylilies video How dogs feel pain
Filling an Unwanted Swimming Pool
Here is Rick's pool being filled in:
Wood Fired Pizza Oven Photos from Daniel
Daniel watched our Brick Pizza Oven Plans video and built his own. He calls it a Wood Fired Oven, aka wood fired pizza oven. He tell us a bit about it: I have constructed a dry stacked wood oven similar to [GardenFork's} I purchased the cement blocks for the base and the cement board for...