GardenFork – Eclectic DIY

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  • Love Of Goya Foods! GF Radio 461

    Love Of Goya Foods! GF Radio 461

    Rick and Eric both have big love for Goya Food products, especially the Pardina Lentils, Canned chickpeas, and the spices. The grocery store near Eric in BKLN has a whole aisle devoted to Goya, and its a beautiful thing.

    Eric talks about how changes at Amazon are affecting GardenFork. Please do not use a GF link that takes you to the main page of Amazon. You can check out GardenFork’s Amazon Shop Page here, on the GF Amazon Page, I have listed a bunch of tools, books, cool stuff that is GardenFork approved.

    Making yogurt in the Instant Pot is super fun, how to make yogurt video here. Rick uses the heirloom yogurt starter from Cultures for Health . He also adds in probiotic capsules from the health food store. Kefir is also good for tuning up the biome.

    A recent Science VS. podcast talked about obesity and touched on the biome in your gut and how that affects how much people weigh. It seems a lot of weight issues are not what we think, and the biome in your stomach has a lot to do with weight issues, and how come it is hard to lose weight.

    Rick got a new Apple Watch for Christmas, and he likes it. Rick finds he looks at this phone a lot less now, he can dictate Notes into the watch, and the world globe showing weather patterns is for the geek in all of us.

    More info on how the near field communications chip in new smartphones is a good secure way to pay for things. Rick can talk about this more, and he does on the show, but its sounds like its hard to hack, which is a good thing.

    Eric’s new cookbook is Deep Run Roots by Vivian Howard. She also produces a show called A Chef’s Life you can watch on the PBS app.

    GFR listener Kathlean writes in about using acorn flour, we hope to have Kathlean on the show soon.

    Rick’s new double wall greenhouse has done well, keeping this swiss chard from freezing. Watch The Curtis Stone video we talk about.

  • DIY Wind Turbines, Amazing Tomatoes, And Garden Fertlizers – GF Radio 449

    DIY Wind Turbines, Amazing Tomatoes, And Garden Fertlizers – GF Radio 449

    Rick and Eric talk more DIY and how to projects like Eric’s electrical re-wiring. But first we touch on home made wind turbines. We get an update from Dave in Texas about the Klee Univ. of Florida tomatoes has grown.

    The wind turbine article: http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/wind-energy/diy-wind-turbine-zm0z17amz

    Fertilizer article: http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/gardening-techinques/best-organic-fetilizers-zm0z17amz

    Urine in your garden: http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/lawn-garden/a27354/urinate-on-lawn/

    Fan blade photo by Panoha via Wikimedia CC 3

  • Smoked Fish and Community Involvement GF Radio 448

    Smoked Fish and Community Involvement GF Radio 448

    How just one person can affect change is a big theme in my life, so here we go with another one of Eric’s solo shows.

    The Nelson Mandela billboard and more : https://www.values.com/

    The article  “How To Build A Better Home Town” Real Simple August 2017 doesn’t seem to be online, or at least not yet.

    Planning and Failures, & Ricks Hiatus – GF Radio 435

    It’s OK To Suck At Something – GFR 444

  • Fruit Walls from Low Tech Magazine – GF Radio 402

    Fruit Walls from Low Tech Magazine – GF Radio 402

    We talk about Fruit Walls, which we read about on the site Low Tech Magazine. Fruit Walls are tall thick walls made to absorb the heat of the sun and create a micro climate to grow warm weather fruits in France, Belgium and Europe.

    This is where the espalier concept of pruning – training of a fruit tree came from, we think. The tree was trained to have lateral branches that would spread along the fruit wall and benefit from the heat being put off by the wall. Previous to reading this article we were clueless about this.

    The fruit walls advanced with the addition of chimneys built into the walls, with fires burning in a part of the wall and the hot exhaust heating the walls.

    By R&@E CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
    By R&@E CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons & Low Tech Magazine

    A neat version was a fruit wall with the addition of what was basically a window frame to become a greenhouse. As greenhouses became popular, the fruit wall became part of it, absorbing the heat of the day and keeping the greenhouse warm at night. This concept is still used in China today.

    In late 19th century greenhouses as we know them today became popular, and fruit walls fell from favor.

    We talk about the DIY mini greenhouses we have built, watch our greenhouse vids here.

    Then the show starts going on a tangent into concrete, and how the Romans made really good concrete, which is called cement, depending on who you talk to and how its used.

    There is a lot of this solar heating and hot beds examples at Colonial Williamsburg, Rick says. We’ll have to look into making a hot bed with horse manure.

    Check out Scott’s garden articles on Medium.

  • DIY Attic Fan & Stovetop Pizza – GF Radio 390

    DIY Attic Fan & Stovetop Pizza – GF Radio 390

    Erik from the Root Simple Podcast joins Eric to talk about how to keep cool when the power goes out in Los Angeles. He is now more prepared to power outages because of the ham radio he bought here.

    Buying a cheap box fan, Erik crafted the DIY Whole House for his L.A. home.

    DIY Stovetop Pizza

    Erik’s how to make pizza method uses the stovetop and broiler, learn how here.

  • Cooking Charcoal Steaks & Baking Mistakes – GF Radio DIY Living 388

    Cooking Charcoal Steaks & Baking Mistakes – GF Radio DIY Living 388

    Eric tells how he tries to keep the house cool on the hot days of summer, then reads and reflects on viewer mail on dishwasher installation and baking disasters.

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  • Brainstorming Better Creative Ideas – GF Radio 384

    Brainstorming Better Creative Ideas – GF Radio 384

    Do These 8 Thing and be more creative insightful is an article Rick tweeted and I read. Then we talked about it here on GardenFork Radio. Or at least we eventually got to it, after the usual back and forth. Happens. First we have to talk about malaria.
    How do our microphones sound? We are getting better at this podcast thing, maybe one day we will be on Slate!
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    Thank you to all who are writing reviews on our iTunes podcast page.
    Read the Wash Post article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/07/06/seven-things-to-do-that-neuroscientists-say-will-enhance-insight-and-boost-creativity/

  • First Time Gardening with Mike – GF Radio 373B

    First Time Gardening with Mike – GF Radio 373B

    Mike joins Rick and Eric to talk about first time gardening again. Mike has been without a vegetable garden for a few years and we talk about raised bed gardening, straw bale gardening. There’s some info on RootSimple.com about straw bale gardening.

    As an example of how to dial back expectations and bite off more than one can  handle, Eric talks about not tapping every sugar maple available to him, because you then  have to haul all the sap from that tree through the snow and boil it. So plan and dream, but don’t do more than  you can handle.

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    Mike brings up Chris Kimball of America’s Test Kitchen, suggesting he has a more elaborate maple sap collection system than Eric has.

    Mike has started doing DIY bike maintenance, repairing his own bike, especially the fine tuning. He has an expensive bike and didn’t want to mess it up, but it also goes again the collective nature of GardenFork types to have someone else repair your bike. He needed some sort of bike stand that he could make himself and after some web research came up with a simple strap that hangs the bike from the ceiling.

    But we’ve decided to still have the experts tune the wheels and deal with the spokes.

    We then touch on rude car drivers and rude cyclists, and find that there are people like that in all groups. Share the road!

  • DIY Standing Desk and Lawnmower vs. Tractor – GF Radio 359

    Rich tells us how he built a DIY Standing Desk out of Ikea parts, aka an Ikea Hack for much less than what a standing desks costs to buy.

    We then move on to switching from a garden tractor to a push lawnmower, what are the pros and cons of a lawn tractor and a push mower?

    Rich gives us some tips on time management and tells us how to use the Eisenhower matrix to prioritize your tasks and how the some stuff falls off the matrix and that’s ok.

    Find out more about executive coach Rich Gee here.

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