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#PodcastsWorthHearing : the Zen of Knife Skills (vids) – rhkennerly http://ow.ly/lBKkd First knife fight I ever saw was at Ft. Devens. Oddly it was at breakfast, at the butt-crack of dawn no less, in the chow hall. The fight was over the last cup of Black Cherry Yogurt. Good stuff, I’m sure, but not worth…
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Well, actually a “work around.” For some weeks the black HOME button at the bottom of the screen on my iPad 2 has been…let’s say moody, uncooperative. In a word “balky.” Like me, it only works when it wants to and is unpredictable in its work ethic, also like me. I’d done some research on…
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Make a DIY Bee Vacuum. Usually a beekeeper can just shake a swarm of bees into the bucket and walk away. Every now and then, however, a vacuum is the only way to get the bees. In this short video, Rick shows how he constructed a bee vacuum for less than $25.
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Here is Rick’s pool being filled in:
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Just a short “bonus” video from Rick this morning on Easy Native Pollinators. He’s been guarding his dill and fennel patches in the front yard from the Perfectionistas’ in the neighborhood (and inside his own house) all season long. The result is this somewhat seedy but extremely prolific butterfly habitat, a Motel 6 for Monarch…
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We don’t have a lot of space at Casa Cairn, so we have to make a lot of stuff do double duty. And why not? Most of our stuff is really used very infrequently. I’ll bet it’s pretty much the same at your house. Today we’ll take a two bulb florescent light from the garage…
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Solar Wax Melter plans here. Rick built this DIY solar beeswax melter out of a cooler and stuff you probably have in your garage. Beeswax is made by the honeybees, and when you harvest honey, the cappings on the cells of the honeycomb are cut off, and you can save these wax cappings, melt them…
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Speaking of listening to podcasts: back around the holidays I wrote about some stereo headsets for gardeners I thought were pretty kewl. Those were the Tags from Outdoor Technology. While the idea was good, I ended up having some problems with them. First of all, I sweat like a Mississippi plow mule–it’s a family trait, what we…
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Hi, Eric. This is really more of a question for Rick. Rick mentioned that he listens to a lot of podcasts. He is such an interesting guy and I’m always looking for new podcasts to listen to (I’m the one who spends a lot of time with my headphones while trainingfor marathons :)). I would love to…
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aquaponics 4 from rick kennerly on Vimeo. update 4 on the aquaponics build out
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(Sorry about the Auto-Start on the Video. Don’t know how to turn that off–Rick). I’ve set up a hydroponics (soil-less growing in an inert medium) system inside the tunnel, which is itself inside my greenhouse. This is a little video on how I did it and how the system works. For early season vegetables, this…
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Aquaponics and Aquaculture How-to has been taking up a lot of Rick’s time. Below Rick tells us what he has learned about how to build an aquaponics system. Eric I haven’t been around the Gardenfork site very much, been busy in the greenhouse. But for the last few days rain and, particularly, mud has kept…
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My greenhouse aquaponics project (OMG What Have I Done?) has come up in some soon-to-be-published interviews with Eric, so I thought I’d report on my progress…or lack of progress. First of all, the old commercial greenhouse (100 ft by 30 ft by 30 ft high) has been sealed (added side curtains, repaired the fire damage,…
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Yep, I’m a fanboy. The minute I stopped being paid for fiddling around with other systems I took the whole house Apple and never looked back. But this tactic should work for most cell phones where you can install ringtones. Despite our cell numbers being listed in the Federal No-Call Database, we frequently get telemarketer…
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I am closing out the books on that dog of a year, 2011. We’ve been working on passive solar renovations for the last several years. While weather plays some part in our utility usage for our home from year to year, I thought I’d report on our general progress. I’ve said it before, but it…
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Here we show you how to roast a turkey on a grill. we are using the charcoal method of cooking a turkey on a grill. the photos here will show you how to make your turkey tasted great on the grill.
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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 gal. bags) gathered from around my neighborhood, shredded with a mower. Add a bit of high nitrogen fertilizer before the rains this…
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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 in Colonial Williamsburg, where they still garden the way colonial people did. Hotbed are like Eric’s cold frames with glass on top…
