November 2011

Nutrient Fade

This is why we grow as much as we can ourselves, grow them organically, and grow heritage varieties.  If we don’t grow our own food ourselves, we know the people who grow it for us….

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Don’t Dump Me, Bro’

  You can hear the discussion I had with Eric on “Tom Sawyer Composting” here on Gardenfork Radio.  Here’s the leaf composting bin I created just yesterday.  106 bags of leaves (mostly 30…

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Homemade Wood Stove Floor Protector

You just bought a wood stove, now you need a floor protector. Here’s how to build your own wood stove floor pad and save money.  A DIY friend of mine has fixed up…

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Start an Aquaculture Farm : GF Radio

How to start an aquaculture farm starts GF Radio today, as Rick has decided to grow vegetables using aquaponics and hydroponics. Aquaculture is a system which uses fish in tanks and plants in…

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Labrador Henry in rain puddle photo

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How to cook a roast turkey or chicken GF TV

Baking a roast turkey or cooking a roast chicken is not hard. Our recipe for baking a turkey is a classic with an Eric spin on it. Mayonnaise. GardenFork.TV Roast Turkey Recipe How-To…

add 12 inches of rich growing soil onto the top of the fresh manure.

Hotbeds

A couple of weeks ago Eric and I were talking on Gardenfork Radio about his new DIY Cold Frames video, and I mentioned winter gardening in hotbeds.  I’d seen some hotbeds in the garden…

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Preparing Beehives for Winter

Winter is coming. Just before the October storm that dumped 20″ of snow here, I went out to our two beeyards and got the beehives ready for winter. The biggest danger to beehives…

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The labradors in their tub photo

OMG – What Have I Done?

You’ve signed a two-year lease on what?  Have you taken full-moon-French-leave of your senses…again? I can tell…She, Who Must Be Obeyed, is intrigued with the idea of my going into business for myself….

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Campfire Cookery Cookbook Giveaway

  The publishers of Campfire Cookery were nice enough to send us a copy of Campfire Cookery: Adventuresome Recipes and Other Curiosities for the Great Outdoors , by Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young,…

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How to defrost a lock : GF Radio

Joel the locksmith joins us to talk about how to fix a frozen lock,  buying or renting the correct tool for the job, how to fix an iphone, and spy photos of prototype…

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Can You Eat That?

She, Who Must Be Obeyed, wanted “a-big-mess-o-greens” last night…and cornbread. “Fine.  You pick’em, I’ll cook’em.” So a while later she comes back with a big-mess-o-mess. “What have you done?,”  I ask as I…

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Dogs and the -ness of things

This brush pile is shaking, grunting and growling, and scratching at the earth…or at least the terriers inside make it seem to be.  I, on the other hand, sit and wait.  And while…

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My visit to the Waffle House

I have never been to a Waffle House , until now. I love waffles, see our how to make waffles video here, and have even done waffle recipe home made baking powder experiments…

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