I’ve always been one of those people who want to share cool stuff I’ve found, and there’s a ton of it that swirls thru my head all the time.

How Eric cuts down a tree is one of the most watched Gardenfork shows.

A few years back I thought, there must be a way to build a website so I can share with people stuff that I get excited about.

I ran across the video blog Crash Test Kitchen, and the lightbulb went off in my head. I can do this.

So I put the video camera in my friend Bill’s hand, and told him we were going to make a cooking show. We made puttanesca, and it was a blast. Gardenfork was born.

Gardenfork is this eclectic mix of cooking, gardening, and whatever cool stuff I think might be fun to share with people.

I got an email recently that sums it up:

I have never been interested in gardening, cooking, or home repair. But when a friend showed me your show for the first time, I was won over by your humor and trial-and-error way of making a DIY show. Now, I wait excitedly for the next radio show or podcast. It is the most entertaining thing I watch, either on iTunes, or general television. You present a wealth of knowledge and I love finding out new things I didn’t know before.

How cool is that? ‘Down to earth’ and ‘eclectic’ sum up most of the iTunes Reviews and emails I get from viewers.

Eric and Henry doing a handyman job in NYC

“How did you learn all this stuff, did you take a class?”

I get this question all the time. No, no class; just learned by doing.

My grandfather was a building superintendent in the Bronx, NY. My family has always been  DIY family, we never hired someone to fix something, we did it ourselves. It didn’t always work perfectly, but we didn’t have the money to hire repair people.

I now work as a handyman – painting contractor in Connecticut and New York City. My work website is here.

And my family has a love for home cooked food, both my parents cook, and I started cooking at an early age.

Eric and the Ford Fiesta, part of a Gardenfork - Ford marketing campaign

I produce and host Gardenfork.tv and Gardenfork Radio, and Real World Green.

Gardenfork.tv is the original web video show about cooking, gardening, and other fun stuff.

Gardenfork Radio is an audio podcast available on our site and on iTunes, where.  I started Gardenfork Radio to talk about all the neat stuff that doesn’t make it into a Gardenfork video show.

Real World Green is a web video show about how we as individuals can reduce our impact on the earth in practical, down-to-earth ways. I started Real World Green as an answer to all the touchy-feely green content out there that turns off the average guy who lives in the Midwest. Practical is the key word here, and I think if you don’t lecture people, but show them how they can be greener and more than likely save money, they will listen. A viewer sums it up:

“I continually consume information about global warming, greenhouse gases and all the other buzzword-compliant environmental topics but hardly any of them tell me what I can do now – today – to really make a difference without my having to do my own research. Real World Green does that”

I’m all about the learn by doing method of life, I don’t know how to do a lot of stuff, but I try anyway. Many times I make a Gardenfork video about it while I stumble through something.

There  you go. A brief rundown of what this is all about. Contact me with any questions. Yes I do personal appearances and yes, Gardenfork does advertising deals. Our latest collaboration is with Ford Motor Co.

email me eric@gardenfork.tv

Thanks, eric.