A Toad In A Hole recipe cooked outdoors, how cool is that? Watch the video and read on for the recipe and thoughts. Here's an Toad In A Hole recipe from the UK that we cook in our cast iron dutch oven outdoors. You can cook this in your kitchen, but its more fun to...
Venting Your Crawlspace & ifixing your iMac - GF Radio
Today on GardenFork Radio, Rick decides iFixit.com should sponsor GardenFork.TV and GF Radio, after Eric tells of how he has used the iFixit.com site and the products they sell to repair his iPhone and replace the hard drive on his iMac . Getting that damp smell out of your crawl space or basement also takes...
How to can, dry, freeze, pickle, ferment preserve vegetables - GF Radio 223
Daniel Gasteiger, author of Yes, You Can! and Freeze and Dry it too; The modern step-by-step guide to Preserving Food, joins Eric on GF radio to talk about how to can vegetables, how to freeze food and vegetables, how to dry herbs and plants, and how to ferment cabbage and more neat stuff. We talk...
Washing Machine Repair, Water Pump Replace GF Video
Washing machine repair video to fix a broken water pump. My washer broke, and I made a video of how to replace the water pump on your wash machine. If the washer is not draining, the water pump is probably broken. Water pumps on washing machines are not hard to fix, watch here and i'll...
Kimchi Soup (Kimchi Jigae) Recipe
Kimchi Jigae, or kimchi soup, is a traditional winter stew from Korea. It’s like a very spicy hot and sour soup made with fermented cabbage — some call it the cure-all for all winter ailments. It's simple to make and many of the ingredients are not considered as exotic anymore. You might be able to...
How to have a Yard Sale GF Radio
Learn here how to have a tag, yard, or garage sale, from Mike and Eric. Mike is having a yard sale, and tell us how to have a successful yard sale, and his techniques for bargaining with buyers. Then we talk about squash vine borer damage and how to treat them. You can watch our...
Hurricanes, Gardening, & Beekeeping GF Radio
Today we talk about hurricanes, weather forecasting, and hurricane preparedness with Tyler, who is the CEO of Allison House, a severe weather data company you can learn more about Allison house at AllisonHouse.com ( a GF sponsor ) We continue with how to predict hurricanes and how the national hurricane Center creates different models using...
Zucchini and Corn Fritter Recipe
This fried dish marks the last summer harvest — sweet corn and zucchini from Eric's garden make for some tasty, savory fritters. Some find it difficult to make golden, crispy fritters that hold together. When something is deep-fried correctly it is not greasy and the inside is perfectly steamed. The usual suspects are soggy batter,...
Beehive Ventilation Beekeeping 101 GF TV
A new video in our Beekeeping 101 aka Beginning Beekeeping video series. We had a real hot summer, like everyone else, and honeybees can overheat just like we can. So when I went out to the beehives in the heat of the summer, I made a video about how a beekeeper can ventilate or keep...
Honeybees landing loaded with pollen photo
We requeened this honeybee hive last month, and the bees are almost a pure yellow-gold color, its wild. This queen is a hybrid Italian honeybee queen that we bought from Warm Colors Apiary. Right now the Goldenrod is blooming, and there is still clover in the fields, plus around here we have late season woodland...
The Tiny House Minimal Living Movement GF Radio
The Small House, The Tiny House Movement, The Not So Big House are all part of the Minimal Living Movement. I'm doing my best to reduce the clutter in my house, have fewer possessions, and I do live in a fairly small house, and I aspire to a Minimalist Lifestyle. But its pretty big compared...
Artisan Bread No Knead Bread Recipe update
I was asked to bring bread to a pot luck, and luckily, i had just started a batch of the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day the night before. With this method, take 6 ½ cups of flour, water, yeast, salt and put it in a large container. You let it rise for a...
Squash Vine Borer Treatment #2 : GF Video
The Squash Vine Borer eating the squash, pumpkin, zucchini plants? Get rid of the squash borer with this method. If you have squash borer damage on your squash, pumpkins, zucchini plants, here's how we treat our squash plants. The moth of the squash vine borer lays it eggs next to the young squash plants, and...
Sheetrock Plaster Walls Pros & Cons
I'm betting if you are reading this post, you may be searching for information on how to sheetrock or drywall plaster walls. So, I thought I'd post some pictures to give you all a visual how-to on sheetrocking walls and talk about the pros and cons of this kind of wall repair. Here are some...
The Best Banh Mi Vietnamese Sandwich in NY
Recently we were working on a paint job in Sunset Park Brooklyn, and we realized that Brooklyn's Chinatown was just a few avenues away. Tony, ( who works with me in addition to writing recipes for GardenFork ) and I had previously visited Thanh Da II ( 5624 8th Avenue, Brooklyn NY ) in Brooklyn's...
Adirondack Guide Boat handmade from wooden boat plans
Last winter one of my friends showed me an Adirondack Guide Boat he was building in his basement. I just nodded, having seen many half finished 'basement projects' in friend's basements, wooden boat plans being one of them. Well this spring he finished his boat and it is looks just amazing. According to Wikipedia, the...
Hurricane Irene & Plywood Boats : GardenFork Radio
Mike and Eric talk about hurricane Irene, being a weather geek, the Allison House Weather Station that GardenFork uses, and Eric's new plywood boat video WMR968 Weather Station is available from AmbientWeather.com
Plywood boat, How to build one : GF DIY Video
Learn how to build a Plywood Boat. You can make a great boat out of one sheet of plywood. Watch our video here and see how we build a boat. There are links at the end of this post for more of our boat videos and DIY projects ↓. You can make this plywood boat...