Your dishwasher and indoor pollution

Charlie likes to eat paper towels and tissues.

Seventh Generation, the company that makes all sorts of eco-smart and recycled products for your home, asked me if I’d like a box of their products to check out. We already use Seventh Generation products, so why not say yes to some free stuff? Seventh Generation is rolling out  new natural disinfecting wipes, and as [...]

The Labs in the park

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Henry and Charlie love snow

“Well You Should Be Watching the GardenFork Podcast”

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yes, you should. Some kind words from Life Adorned a yarn – crafter who watches GardenFork, AND also spins her own yarn, makes yarn based things, and sells them on Etsy.  In other words, someone who would of course watch GardenFork. my 2 favorite things about this podcast: (1) eric is a trial-and-error kind of [...]

Re Queening both our hives this spring

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After reading a glowing article in Bee Culture about Jennifer Berry and her excellent queen rearing program, we have decided to replace the queens in both our hives with queens from Jennifer Berry. Why requeen? What is most important to me is the bees display what is called hygenic behavior. This means they keep the [...]

Kinda Carbonara with what’s in the fridge

The basic ingredients on a Sunday night

Tonite we drove to NYC for work tomorrow. Most nights like this, I go buy a burrito from the local tacqueria. The burritos are great, and healthy, as I opt for yogurt in place of sour cream in my black bean burrito.

Beans and Toast Recipe : GardenFork.TV

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I had Beans on Toast for the first time last month, at Fort Defiance in Red Hook, Brooklyn. After the first bite I knew I had to make the Beans on Toast recipe for GardenFork.TV . Super simple, yet tastes great and is healthy as well. Lots of protein here, and it tastes even better with toasted multigrain bread

A Drive goes perpendicular to a Street : Queens, NY Food with John Baronian

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Queens, NY is a giant polyglot multicultural crossroads, with a very confusing street naming protocol. All this means is that there is a lot of great food.

February is a time for Planning

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Gardening by Moon Phase or just using Garden Common Sense… If you make a light weight cold frame, be prepared to search for it when it blows away. April showers bring May flowers and Mayflowers bring Pilgrims.

My V-Day Gift: Ad Hoc At Home by Thomas Keller

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I don’t own a lot of cookbooks. I don’t think a lot of them have a voice. This one does. Often very good chefs don’t publish very good cookbooks. Thomas Keller does. Part giant food picture book, Part you-can-cook-this, All comfort food is how I would describe it in one sentence.

I like the smell of compost.

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It’s dark, stinky, and I just find it beautiful. Compost! There. I said it. I enjoy it. There’s compost buried in the veg garden. Compost in the rotating container. Compost “aging” over the winter in planter boxes. There’s a lot of compost. I like the musty, sour, earth smell of it.

Eric’s Garden Seed Choices for spring

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I got my seed orders this week, and I now know I probably over-ordered. Kinda like going into Costco or BJs and buying the whole case of mayonaise. I buy seeds from Fedco and Johnny’s . The bulk of my seeds come from Fedco, and then from Johnny’s I get some special stuff, like pelleted [...]

Wrapping your beehive with insulation – Beginning Beekeeping

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Where we live in Northwestern Connecticut, it gets quite cold. Not as cold as I remember as a kid in Wisconsin, but its cold. Temperatures for a week in January were around 6 degrees F. Now that we have our new weather station, provided by AllisonHouse, we will be able to gather historical weather data, [...]

VendrTV is one year old today

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About a year ago, this guy calls me and asks if he can meet me to talk about producing a video show for the web. We met, and he talked about this show he wanted to do about street food, and how he would grow it on the web. OK, I said, Good Luck. Well [...]

Labs in the kitchen!

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Do you have Labs like these two?

The Biscuit Cutter: Twist the Cutter or Just Press Down?

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I was wondering if the glass, which is fairly thick, was actually kinda pinching the biscuit dough as it pressed down and twisted the glass.

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