How to identify mushrooms. I get a lot of requests for more information mushroom identification, so i've started with this post to show GardenFork readers different mushrooms I run across in the woods and in the city. The Giant Puffball can be a common site in urban areas. You might see these large white balls...
Sneak Preview of this week's DIY show :
Does it float? You'll have to watch this week's show...
Dutch Oven Banana Bread Recipe - Campfire Cooking - GF Video
Dutch oven banana bread recipe baked in a campfire or using charcoal, nice right?. Either way it tastes like the instant comfort food that it is. Watch the video and then read the recipe below. Head up: I now have 4 dutch ovens, and all are well seasoned at this point. You can see our ...
How to remove wallpaper : GardenFork Radio
Mike and Eric talk about how to remove wallpaper and skim coat walls, then move on to urban foraging and the recent NY Times article about harvesting plants from city parks, then we segue into how to replace a car fender, and the caveats that go with working on a damaged car. Temporary email addresses...
Bait Hives, Bee Swarms and Swarm Traps, Beekeeping 101 : GardenFork.TV
I built some honey bee swarm traps, or bait hives, to try to capture any bee swarms that came out of the beehives in our beeyard. Swarm Traps, or Bait Hives are basically boxes you place around near your bees, offering them as convenient homes for new bee swarms. The bait hives - swarm traps...
First Frames full of honey from new beehives
we did a beehive inspection last week and found the new honeybees to be in good shape. they have started to fill up their new frames with honey. this honey will stay in the hive to feed the honeybees through the winter.
How to keep honeybees basic questions : GardenFork Radio
Want to know the basics of how to raise honeybees? what kind of beekeeping equipment you need to buy? what kind of beekeeping veil to buy? where is the best place to put beehives? Listen to GardenFork Radio for a Beekeeping 101 , the basics of raising honeybees. The idea for this honeybee beekeeping show...
The best spice rub for pork shoulder BBQ GardenFork Radio
We are on the road today in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY visiting with Daniel Delaney. Daniel and I talk about if someone can turn on the webcam on your laptop, and relates a story about an artist who did something similar at a computer store, and was then visited by law enforcement Eric likes Daniel's great...
Water your honeybees
We just shot another of our Beginning Beekeeping aka Beekeeping 101 videos and I wanted to show you how we water the bees. One of our two beeyards is near a vernal pond, and a stream not far away, but I'm all about making it easy for the bees, so I put out some water...
Connect A Generator To Your House : GardenFork Radio
Emergency Preparedness, installing a generator in your home, hooking up generator transfer panels, and how to safely hook up your generator to your house is the subject of GardenFork Radio. We want to thank Barry for his viewer mail that started us off on our Emergency Preparedness show today. more cool stuff on www.GardenFork.TV ph0to...
How to Deer Proof Your Yard : GardenFork Radio
If you want to keep deer from eating your plants, plant plants that the deer don't eat. Ruth Rogers Clausen, author of 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants, joins us to talk about how to keep deer out of your yard by choosing plants that are deer resistant or deer proof. Did you know that acorns...
New No Knead Bread - Artisan Bread Recipe - GF Video
I've been making the No Knead Bread recipe, by Jim Lahey, made famous by The New York Times and Mark Bittman for a while now. I have also been making the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day recipe, watch our original artisan bread recipe video here. In this video I show you an improved...
Summer Salad with Maple Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe
I love Blue Cheese dressing with my hot wings or salad. It's tangy, salty, and creamy with a rich blue-veined flavor. There's quite a few varieties available, but Roquefort, Stilton, and Gorganzola work the best. You don't need much, but do get a good Blue Cheese. I like Danish Saga, it's less salty and much...
How to make easy pie & pastry crust by Chez Pim - a video how to
Trying to actually chart how I find cool people and neat stuff on the web can be interesting. I was showing my sister the Tartine Bread video made by 4SP films, and I saw that 4SP also had produced a video about Chez Pim making a pie - pastry crust. The recipe is super simple,...
Poached Eggs at the Oakhurst Diner in Millerton : GardenFork Radio
Tracy joins Eric for a brother sister show, and talk about their recent dinner at the Oakhurst Diner in Millerton, NY , and Eric's penchant for spaghetti sandwiches. Then we talk about Atomic Ranch magazine, and mid-century ranch homes, furniture, and design. Campers and Trailers from the 50s and 60s come up next, a Vagabond...
Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day using a dutch oven update
I've been making bread using the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day method, ( we made a GF video about artisan bread here ) and the original recipe calls for placing the dough on a bread peel to rise, then sliding it onto a pizza stone in the oven to bake. This pizza stone...
How to build a trellis for your vegetable garden - GF Video
Want to build a trellis for our vegetable garden that uses recycled wood and twine? I made this video to show you how. We grow peas, beans, & cucumbers on this simple trellis. (Want to learn how to grow peas? It's easy: Watch how to here.) Enjoy the video I made for you below, and...
Sous Vide In A Slow Cooker : GardenFork Radio
How to cook sous vide in a slow cooker or crock pot leads to many tangents on GardenFork Radio this week. GF listener Joe wrote in to tell of how he uses an older slow cooker, aka Crock Pot, to cook steaks sous vide. And Eric updates us on the honeybees, re-queening a weak hive....