I get ideas all the time for new GardenFork videos, but I'd like to hear from you guys what you'd like to see. I have a list of show ideas in my Evernote file, but some of the best ones come from you guys. Like the video we did on garden hose repair! I'd appreciate...
Garden Hose Repair Video GF TV
Broken Garden Hose? Learn how to fix your leaking garden hose in this Fix a broken hose video. We've run over the garden hose with a lawnmower a few times, and instead of throwing out the hose, we fix the leak in the hose, or the cut off end of the hose with a few...
Spicy Indian Poblanos Recipe
Well, I’m still working my way through that big jar of tamarind paste and really enjoying the journey. A dish that’s a hit in my household is one I’ve been making for a couple years now and was inspired by the overabundance of poblano peppers we had at the farm. We always had a surplus,...
Cook In A Dutch Oven - Temperature Control
This is another of a series of articles about how to cook in a dutch oven, dutch oven recipes, and how to season cast iron and dutch ovens by Gary House, of Cooking-Outdoors.com. A big thank-you to Gary for contributing this. The key to successful outdoor Dutch oven cooking, is knowing how many charcoal briquettes...
Urban Foraging Chestnut Tree Chestnuts
Bitten by the urban foraging bug, I'm always looking at plants and trees in New York City now. There's lots of food around if you look. On the way to the subway in Park Slope is a Horse Chestnut Tree, and every year the sidewalk is littered with the empty chestnut shells - the squirrels...
Inside the Hive: Views from a First Year Beekeeper (Scene 23)
Pollen is the topic of this post. In this image you can see quite a bit of it in the comb. It is of various colors and what I've seen them bringing in, at least the day of this hive inspection, is yellow. In fact, if you look closely at this picture you'll see a...
We don't like candycorn GF Radio
We thank Matt Cuba for fixing the GardenFork site! Rick and Eric talk about Halloween, moving apartments, boxes from old moves you've never opened. Beekeeping overload has happened to Eric, with the realization that one can only eat so much honey. Rick talks about queenless hives. What fun we had with Lynne Rossetto Kasper of...
Inside the Hive: Views from a First Year Beekeeper (Scene 22)
Here I've got a photo from my recent hive inspection of hive #2. As you can see, the bees don't all look alike. Oh, sure they have wings and are about the same size but their coloration varies. Along the bottom of that frame in the middle you can see some very yellow-orange bodied honeybees...
Inside the Hive: Views from a First Year Beekeeper (Scene 21)
Propolis - that sticky, gooey substance that honeybees make from plant resins - is strong stuff. Anyone who has tried to separate one super from the one below it can testify to the holding power of propolis. As I've written before, bees use this to fill in small cracks and seal up anything needing to...
Inside the Hive: Views from a First Year Beekeeper (Scene 20)
Varoa Destructor! Ominous sounding name, huh? This little sucker (literally) is one of the many pests which can affect the health and well being of a hive. Varoa is a mite which latches onto the honeybee and sucks the hemolymph from the bee. You can think of hemolymph as being like our own blood...
Spilled Paint Cleanup!
"Eric come here quick!" Not the phrase you want to hear on a paint job. It doesn't happen often, but this is what you prepare for, the unexpected. The one time you don't prepare is when it will happen. When painting rooms, I am obsessive about covering every square inch of floor with either paint...
Lynne Rossetto Kasper of Splendid Table Joins Us GF Radio
Sarah and I were having a production meeting the other day and we were talking about cool people we'd like to have on the show. Sarah immediately suggested Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award winning author and host the The Splendid Table radio show from American Public Radio. I listen to Lynne's show in the car, driving...
Tiny Houses & Plywood Boats GF Radio
Deek Diedricksen, Tiny House Designer and originator of the plywood boat we built joins us to catch up on what he is doing. Deek is hosting a Tiny House Building Workshop Nov 1 & 2. His newest book is in a new printing, check it out on his site.
Grow Swiss Chard & Start a farm in Florida GF Radio
Priscilla the egg lady joins us to talk about how to grow swiss chard and how to cook swiss chard. Priscilla is using a double row method this year. Josh Bauer then joins us to talk about what's it like to go to the Culinary Institute of America and then start your own farm in...
Requeening A Hive In Fall, a visual beekeeping how to
This year has been the year I've had to requeen 4 hives. Not sure why, but wanted to show one way how to requeen a beehive. This beehive was doing fine, I pulled some honey off the hive, and then checking it 3 weeks later there is barely any covered brood and no freshly laid...
Best Flowers for Honeybees : Woodland Asters
What are the best flowers for honeybees? What kind of flowers do bees like? How do i attract honeybees to my garden? Being a beekeeper, I pay a lot of attention to what flowers honeybees are attracted to, and in the late summer and fall, the forest edges of my yard are full of Woodland...
Foraging for Edible Plants: Purslane GF Video
Learn how to forage for edible wild greens and identify edible plants in this Foraging for Purslane video. Edible plants like Purslane are sometimes considered weeds, but you can eat them, watch and learn here in this GardenFork foraging video. Purslane grows all over the place, ( it grows well in compacted and dry soils...
Sweet and Salty Roasted Chickpeas
Mike recently tweeted a challenge: Come up with a snack that would fix his crunchy-sweet-salty craving without going overboard on calories. When Monica suggested roasted chickpeas, I also got a hankering in need of quenching. So, I set out to recreate a recipe I used to make often. Why had I stopped? Well, somehow this...