Foraging for wild plants starts in your backyard with foraging for daylilies. These edible plants in the yard are an edible wild food. Today we talk about foraging the young shoots of the common Daylily, which are edible and great in salads. Daylilies are a non-native, and can be an edible invasive plant, especially the...
Foraging Blogs Better Than GardenFork
On Twitter, Alexa asked me and a few foraging experts about identifying Mustard Garlic, and at the same time, she introduced me to 4 foragers who have websites and books on foraging. Full Disclosure: I am not the high priest expert on foraging or edible plants. Like most things, I know enough to be dangerous....
Propagating Boxwood with Kevin Lee Jacobs : GF Radio
Learn how to grow more plants, like propagating boxwood instead of buying boxwood plants, with Kevin Lee Jacobs, whose website is A Garden For The House. We learn from Kevin how to propagate boxwood and create ornamental gardens inexpensively with the Use What You Got method. Kevin is a big advocate of leaf mold and...
Hoop House Plan You Can Build
A PVC hoop house design by J.B. uses PVC pipe, plywood, & plastic to make a simple greenhouse. J.B. based this on our Hoop House Plan video, and made it taller for tall plants. Perfect for seed starting tomatoes or even corn. Just wanted to drop you a line to say Thanks for your video's...
Maple Syrup Boil and Apple Tree Grafting : GF Radio
How do you know when maple syrup is syrup? Either by watching the local boiling point or hydrometer, Eric tells about how to boil maple sap into maple syrup, here is a great how-to by the CT DEP http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/forestry/ctwildlife/cwjf12.pdf#page=10 Then Eric has the secret to world peace. We discuss Eric was a guest of Ford...
Seed Starting in a Hoop House Cold Frame : DIY Video
Starting seeds in a hoop house cold frame is like putting a greenhouse on your vegetable bed. The hoop house warms the soil and then you drop seeds right into the soil. No transplanting or grow lights, no transplant shock. This is our cheap PVC hoop house that can be made with salvaged or recycled...
Worm Composter Tips from Rick : GF Radio
Rick and Eric talk about vermicomposting, or Worm Composting, and how to prepare the food scraps you are adding to the worm composter. Getting your bees ready for spring is talked about. Eric adds pollen patties in the spring to his hives, and he found two dead hives when he did a late winter bee...
Repair Of Our Hoop House Cold Frame : GF Video
Setting up our simple cheap hoop house greenhouse for seed starting. This PVC hoop house cold frame works well for us and it was easy to build, here is the video of us building our the hoop house. The hoop house greenhouse allows you to get a head start on planting vegetables and seed starting....
Book Review: Long Way On A Little
I've been meaning to do this write-up for months. On the one hand, I feel a little guilty for keeping this gem of a book to myself for so long; on the other hand, there are some benefits to my procrastination. I haven't just read this book - I've really lived with it. More than just...
Winter Bee Inspection & Dead Bees - Beekeeping 101 Video
Another of our Beekeeping 101 videos on how to do a winter bee inspection. Links to more beekeeping videos at end of the post. This time we open up the beehives in late March to show us feeding bees in winter. Keeping bees in areas with snow and winter, you will want to add sugar...
Hernias and Evernote : GF Radio
Eric and Rick talk about Sarah's talk about how to start a catering business on the previous GF Radio show and Rick's laproscopic hernia surgery. The success of the GardenFork email with Henry's photo in it yielded a bunch of pet photos. Eric talks about how he uses Evernote via email to save Viewer Mail...
Maple Sap Collection Tips, Backyard Maple Syrup Project GF Video
Halfway through collecting maple sap to make maple syrup, I made this video on tips on tapping maple trees and how to collect sap to make maple syrup. Shot on the iPhone, it looks pretty good. I use tree saver plastic taps and plastic lines to collect sap, i'm finding that buckets at each tree...
How to start catering : GF Radio
Sarah joins Eric to talk about how to start a catering business. Sarah has been catering birthday parties and dinners on the weekend, and tells us what its like to do catering, how to get started catering and personal chef business, and what issues she has dealt with in the catering business. The key is...
DIY tapping maple trees for maple syrup - GF Video
Tapping sugar maple trees to make maple syrup is a big tradition in my part of Connecticut, so I wanted to show you how to tap maple trees to get maple sap to make maple syrup. We use plastic taps and tubing that are connected to buckets at the base of each tree. The advantage...
The Monica Show! GF Radio
Previously known as the food safety show, this time with the correct audio file! Monica joins us to talk about food safety and being smart about food. Cleanliness is key here.
Labradors at the Office : Photo
Install a Washing Machine : GF Video
Learn how to install a washing machine in this GardenFork how to video. Eric shows how to remove your old washer machine, and how to put in the new clothes washer. The washing machine used in this video is a front loading clothes washer, but the install process is the same for a top loading...
Dog Treat Recipe Success!
Katja watched our Sweet Potato Dog Treat Recipe video and made these great looking dog treats! In an email, she says: I made your Sweet Potato dog biscuit recipe today. My slightly picky Labrador pup –I know a contradiction in terms- loves them. Really liked the dogbone cookiecutter you used and looked online for one....