Yes, you can learn how to replace the front wheel bearings on your car or truck. Eric shows you how to repair your own truck wheel bearings, using his Ford F150. The front wheel bearings of his truck are making that classic wheel bearing 'whorl' sound, so we take an afternoon to make a wheel...
No, I will not fix your computer GF Radio
more on road rage and walking away from it. pinball history, mike talks about the influence on pinball by Steve Kordek, Eric reads from Mr Kordek's obituary in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/business/steve-kordek-innovator-of-pinball-game-dies-at-100.html mike shreds his paperwork and sets off the alarm at work and eric used to have long hair and a mowhawk, photos of...
Maple Syrup Season Update GF Radio
Eric talks with Bill of Maple Knoll Farm about tapping Maple Trees for sap, making maple syrup, and how this warm winter is affecting the maple syrup season. Bill can be seen in our GF Video Make Maple Syrup here. Bill has about 150 trees tapped, using metal buckets. He and his family collect the...
Winter Bee Check & Sugar Feeding - Beekeeping 101 Video
Getting your honeybees through winter is a challenge. We feed our bees sugar in the form of a sugar cake, (sugar cake recipe below video) and show you in this video how to feed your bees sugar in the winter. Note: I know use the Mountain Camp method of winter sugar feeding, but the video...
How to find a new job, Rich Gee talks GF Radio
Wondering how to get job in this economy? You've just been downsized, and you're thinking to yourself, how do look for a job? How do I market myself? I met Rich Gee, executive and business coach, at a great diner for breakfast, and after we had eggs, hash, toast and coffee, we recorded an impromptu...
Sugar Cake Recipe Winter Beekeeping 101 Video
Here's a video on how to make sugar cakes to feed your bees in winter. Overwintering your honeybees is challenge, here is one way I help the bees overwinter, feeding them sugar cakes with this recipe. You can make these at home. I use foil pans you can buy at the grocery store. Note: I...
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Book Review
I was looking forward to reading Nikki Jabbour’s The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener because my farming apprenticeship had a significant focus on season extension, as the farm is currently going into its twelfth month of continuous harvest. But we were growing in Virginia, whereas Ms. Jabbour has succeeded in maintaining a year-round garden in the more...
Frozen Brake Calipers & Haybox Cookers GF Radio
Mike tells us how to buy used truck, buying a used car or truck can be an un-fun experience, Mike talks about how to avoid the pitfalls. Frozen or stuck brake calipers are discussed, what causes a frozen brake caliper? how to fix a broken brake caliper and how disc brakes work are covered. Haybox...
Seed Starting How To & Email Reminders GF Radio
How to start seeds using a heated seedling mat starts the show, using plastic sheeting to build a hoop house within a greenhouse, and using a heating cable buried in the ground starts GF Radio this week. You can watch our seed starting videos here. Eric has a healthy respect for electricity, and despite Eric...
How to make homemade pasta GF TV Video
Home made pasta, aka fresh pasta, we show you how to make a home made pasta recipe in the GF cooking video. Pasta from scratch is not hard, there's just a few steps to get it right. Homemade pasta tastes different from store bought pasta, and when you make it yourself, there are infinite variations...
How to remove your name from catalog mailing lists
We've been getting multiple copies of numerous catalogs, and then there are another bunch of catalogs that I don't want to receive. Its been in the back of my mind to clip out the address label from each catalog, write 'unsubscribe' on the label, and mail it back to the catalog company. But with postage...
Pizza Oven Plans & Photos from Steven of Tiny House Listings
Here is a different take on the portable backyard pizza oven by Steven of TinyHouseListings.com . Steven sent me these photos of the brick pizza oven he built. Here's Steve's note to us: I love your website and loved the post on your pizza oven. After I saw it I posted a wanted ad on...
Aquaponics and Hydryponics How-to GF Radio
'Being pregnant, that will knock you out' is how Eric describes pregnancy. Hamburgers with eggs and peanut butter is on Mike's to do list at his favorite pancake place. Mike is enjoying his Zombie Bait shirt. Rick updates us on his DIY aquaculture and hyrdroponics project. Aquaculture is like organic gardening in a closed system...
Minimal Living & Monster Minivans GF Radio
Sarah joins Eric and Mike to talk about minimal living and how families can reduce their clutter. Sarah addresses how families can reduce their amount of stuff and be minimalist too. Eric thanks Make Magazine for putting the new pizza oven video on their site and Mike talks about the joy of driving through flat...
Setting Up a Dutch Bucket Hydroponics System
(Sorry about the Auto-Start on the Video. Don't know how to turn that off--Rick). I've set up a hydroponics (soil-less growing in an inert medium) system inside the tunnel, which is itself inside my greenhouse. This is a little video on how I did it and how the system works. For early season vegetables, this...
Home Made Pizza Oven Photos from John
After watching our brick oven pizza video, John in Arizona sent us these photos of his DIY brick oven. Much like our brick oven design, it uses brick and angle iron. I forgot to ask John where he got his angle iron from. I like that the brick oven fits nicely right next to his...
Build a Tiny House with Deek Diedricksen GF Radio
Tiny House Designer Deek Diedricksen joins Sarah and Eric to talk about how to build a tiny house of your own, how to use recycled materials in your tiny house, and how he published his book of Tiny House Designs,Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts Deek and Eric talk about green...
Humble Homes; Tiny House Plans Book by Derek Diedricksen
Looking for tiny house plans? Here they are. The Tiny House or Small House movement has a number of well known thought leaders, Derek Diedricksen leads by building Tiny Houses. Derek is the author of a new book of tiny house plans and ideas, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts ....