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We answer the question of do electric cars pollute as much as gas cars because they use electricity generated by coal fired power plants. We then wander into all electric cars. More and more people are buying them as companies make them. Don’t electric and hybrid cars need to have their batteries replaced at great…
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Will from The Weekend Homestead YouTube channel joins me to talk about cooking down apple butter, drilling into brick, and egress windows. I talk with Will about what to do when you have too many apples? You make apple butter! The apple corer rig we talk about in the show https://amzn.to/2SmvIHZ I was wondering about using…
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Straws are not the real problem, in my opinion. But the OXO carrot peeler is a success story well worth reading. On this podcast, I talk with Erin Schanen, friend and garden guru at The Impatient Gardener site and her YouTube Channel. We move through Erin’s dog eating her USB headset, onto the topics we…
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High Performance Coach Rich Gee joins me to first talk about the inspirational quotes he posts on Instagram and then help me follow through on projects. Rich has been on the podcast before, listen here. The quotes we talk about on the show are on Rich’s Instagram feed. Rich has a Brand Marketing & Strategic…
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My blueberry bushes are the epitome of a weed infested garden. But I want to show you how I restore the weed infested garden bed, with some help from Troy-Bilt. They sponsored this post and provided some fine outdoor power equipment for me to use to restore this blueberry patch. I neglected my blueberries this…
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Noreen tells us how to survive a hurricane, how to prepare for a hurricane, and how to help afterward. Hurricane Florence just went through North Carolina and Noreen’s town was flooded. Noreen tell us what is was like to go through the storm, some of the ways they prepared, and how they are helping out…
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Will and Eric talk about how to identify mushrooms, using books and apps. And how Will did with some Fried Chicken Mushrooms. Will uses two foraging apps, Nature’s Foraging and Nature Mobile. If you want to start learning how to identify mushrooms, I suggest learning from someone local. Ask around to see if one of…
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Rick and Eric get together for the GardenFork Radio Podcast. This week: The Exec Prod’s secret fishing hole? A note from Radio Mike about his thank you email sent to a teacher. Check out the GardenFork Amazon Shop: http://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork Really cool Apollo photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/people/projectapolloarchive/ Support GardenFork, become a monthly supporter on Patreon: http://patreon.com/gardenfork…
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Learning how to mud and tape drywall corners is like most things. The more you do it, the better you get. Here’s a video showing how I do it. You can also see how we mud and tape drywall joints in a video here. Steps to Mud and Tape Drywall Corners Get the joint compound…
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Erin tells us about how she built her amazing raised vegetable beds, which put to shame our DIY raised garden beds. We cover the dreaming, planning, ground preparation, construction, and sealing of the beds. Erin’s raised beds are a click above our simple ones, listen as we walk through how she came to this…
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Learn how to hook up a generator your house electric panel safely in this video. We run our house with a portable generator and transfer switch when the power goes out, and here we’ll show you how to safely connect a generator to your circuit breaker panel. Watch this video, and read through the text…
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Can a portable generator run whole house AC? I learned the answer in short order the other day. I had just installed a generator interlock switch (video here) on my sister’s electric panel, and showed her how to hook up a portable generator to the house. The power went out during a recent storm during…
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Eric and Rick talk about using Firefox’s new tool to protect you from Facebook tracking you all over the web. Eric’s data drain from Instagram. Vegetables that are better for you cooked. Eric’s most recent livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4OuDoCyhVU Check out the GardenFork Amazon Shop: http://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork Get our email newsletter, sign up: http://gardenfork.tv/news Support GardenFork, become a…
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Bees on a hot roof in NYC can be a problem in the middle of summer. I built a DIY hive top vent board to keep the hives a bit cooler. This also helps cure the honey in the supers, by the way. On the flip side, if you want to learn how to insulate…
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A cheap solar panel system to run most of your small house or cabin. This video walks you through a simple solar installation we did for a friends cabin in the woods. A Cheap Solar Panel System, How We Did It: We talk about a simple solar installation on the GardenFork Radio podcast, in this…
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Finally a mail order company creates the best way to unsubscribe from catalogs. We get way too many catalogs for people who don’t really buy that much stuff. It all goes into the recycle. To me its a waste of paper and resources to print the thing, and get it to my door, only to…
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Will tells us how to install a simple solar panel system. He just finished his solar setup in his barn and we walk through it today. Here is the parts list, these are affiliate links: Solar Panel & Controller: https://amzn.to/2sPEi6c Inverter: https://amzn.to/2M5KSOI Battery: https://amzn.to/2kTHqKJ Kill A Watt meter: https://amzn.to/2sJLlgE Video of Will’s version of How…
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http://media.blubrry.com/gardenforkradio/p/gardenfork.tv/audio/GFR112.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS The Labradors of Gardenfork book The reveal of the new Ford Fiesta at the L.A. Auto Show Air Travel and the calorie counts of muffins and danish Interview with Mandy and Joel of Plugged In Parents http://pluggedinparents.com about their lactose free cookbook,…
