I like the smell of compost.

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

Share this post on your Facebook pageI 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 [...]

How to inoculate logs with mushroom spore – thanks to Cooking Up A Story

Share this post on your Facebook pageOn  my to do list is to learn more about propogating mushrooms. I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and here is a great video by Ashley Terry of the blog Cooking Up A Story. Ashley went to Oregon to learn about inoculating birch logs with oyster mushroom [...]

Tatsoi, Greens to grow in the Winter

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We just shot a Gardenfork episode about gardening in winter. We shot it on Christmas Day, and I had neglected to pull out my portable cold frame  – watch our how to make a cold frame video here – and I did not cover my raised beds with black [...]

Fedco Seeds, my favorite seed supplier

OK, right now is dumping snow outside. I just helped my friend Bill switch out generators up at the camp ( where the Labs swim ).

The Chicken Tractor : a new & improved version

Share this post on your Facebook pageI ran across this today, and there has been a lot of talk on our viewer forum about raising chickens.

Handcrafted Coops offers affordable, portable chicken coops for the backyard chicken farmer. All chicken coops are made with sustainable, renewable timber and come flat-packed for easy assembly. Our mission: A [...]

How to dry herbs with these easy methods

Share this post on your Facebook pageDrying herbs does not need to be complicated, and i wanted to try my hand at it. see what happens. How do you dry herbs? let us know below:

Nature-deficit disorder

Share this post on your Facebook pageWhen 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 [...]

weekend pictures

Share this post on your Facebook pageThe pumpkins are growing like weeds. Which is good, less grass to mow

some of our carrots have fangs. Cash likes them though.

The pumpkins are growing like weeds. Which is good, less grass to mow

Heirloom tomatoes, including a Black Krim

my friend Bill W.is making wine. this is the wort

Tomatoes in Madrid

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My friend Brian, who helps shoot Gardenfork, is in Madrid for the summer, shooting a documentary about these [...]