Transplanting raspberries can be tricky. They don't like to be transplanted. So watch Gardenfork.tv and see how Eric does it.
Sullivan Bread in Holland
Caroline from Holland sent me an email with questions about the Sullivan Bread recipe, and my sister Tracy had some suggestions. Caroline then sent me these great picts of bread success. Its very cool that people in Holland watch Gardenfork. Due to spam, comments have been turned off, please visit The Greenhouse to share your...
Cherry Tomato Pasta Recipe : GF Video
This is a great recipe for all those cherry tomatoes you have at the end of the season. This dish is sort of a cherry tomato salad over pasta. I don't think this dish needs cheese, but if you do, go ahead. Cherry Tomato Pasta Recipe 3 pints of cherry tomatoes ( about 4 good...
Nature-deficit disorder
When I was a kid, ( wow, not used to saying that too often ) we would be in the yard or the woods whenever we were home and there was daylight. Now, it seems that kids lives are over-scheduled. My friend Tyler Allison, a contributor to Gardenfork, brought to my attention a book, Last...
No Knead Bread made famous by Mark Bittman - GF Video
I've been making the No Knead Bread, invented by Jim Lahey and made famous by Mark Bittman, and this time I used 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1 cup bread flour. All King Arthur brand flours. Worked well. Not a lot of rise, but it was cold in the...
The Blueberry Yogurt Pancakes GF Cooks Video
I woke up and decided to make pancakes, so I woke up our guest, Charlie, to run the camera, and ...
How to make Basil Pesto & Eric's Pesto Recipe
My way of making pesto is by taste. I'll give you the general outlines here, and you should experiment. approx 2 cups of basil leaves, stems removed, washed and dried approx ½ cup - 1 cup virgin olive oil ½ cup pine nuts or walnuts 1 cup + coarsely grated Parmesan or Roman cheese, the...
Tomatoes in Madrid
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. My friend Brian, who helps shoot Gardenfork, is in Madrid for the summer, shooting a documentary about these village painting contests held all...
Gardenfork in the Litchfield County Times
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. A really nice article in the Litchfield County Times magazine LCT about Gardenfork. The writer, Rebecca Ransom really 'got' what Gardenfork is all...
what to do with garlic scapes?
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. I spent the morning in my neighbor's field, helping him harvest garlic scapes. We did an episode last year about grilling them...
Eric's Rhubarb Jam Recipe with Canning How-to GF Video
Here's is my rhubarb jam recipe: Part 2: Wow. what fun it was to make and can our own rhubarb jam.Rhubarb Jam Recipe 5 cups of chopped rhubarb 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of water 2 to 4 packets of unflavored gelatin optional: 1 carton of strawberries, chopped 1 20 oz can of...
Dear Weber Grill,
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. Will Weber send gardenfork a smoker? still no response from Weber Grill about asking them to supply me with one of their...
Garden cart plans and agrarian blog
I ran across Herrick' blog about his book and gardencart: The Whizbang Gardencart Blog a while back and wrote a post about it in my Web 2.0 blog, and I wanted to share it with you all here as well. Herrick has written a book about how to make your own gardencart, and I'm...
BBQ in Brattleboro, VT
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. My friend Eric Skiff went to Top of the Hill Grill in Brattleboro, VT and shot a video in the Gardenfork BBQ series...
How to make Carbonara Recipe
Carbonara is a really simple dish, the trick is to make sure the eggs do not become scrambled eggs. 6 ounces of thick cut or slab bacon 2 eggs 1 ½ cups grated Parmesan cheese. do not buy pre-grated, it doesn't tast great. 1 box ( 1 lb ) spaghetti ( i prefer thin spaghetti...
Farming in Maine: a blog
Learn more about this and other fun stuff at our viewer forum, The Greenhouse. Comments have been turned off here, but you can post your thoughts, pictures and videos at The Greenhouse. I received an email from Robin, who has a farm in Maine with a nice website and blog. Plus an amazing picture of...
How to boil maple syrup GF Video
Despite a wonderful head cold, i spent a large part of the weekend with my friend Bill at his sugar house boiling maple sap. Making maple syrup is one of my favorite things to do in late winter, and in this video Bill shows us how to boil maple sap to make maple syrup {...
Creme Brule the gardenfork.tv way
Creme Brule' is easy, and tastes great. Plus its really fun to use new tools, readily available from your hardware store to make the burnt sugar crust. Yum. Note: the first part of this show is shot in the dark on purpose. watch and learn.