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I wanted to pull some of the honey off our bigger hive. Early in the year I had stacked two honey supers on that hive, hoping to catch an early nectar flow, which I managed to do despite a swarm. But as I was going through the honey supers, which are super heavy, btw, I…
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I’m calling this the Kallux Ikea hack, as it turns a shelving unit into so much more. This one is at a friend’s photo studio. I’ve done a few projects with Ikea Kallux or Expedit bookcases, and have put wheels on them to make them in to a rolling shelving unit. You can buy…
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My friend picked up a stovetop panini press, so we had to make some sandwiches with it. Super analog, and a great tool for campfire cooking. The brand name is Toas-tite, you could also call this a stovetop sandwich press. I call it a lot of fun. We cooked up a mix of ground beef…
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When you replace an outdoor outlet, spend the money on a good cover, or you will be replacing the outlet again soon. I wrote about a GFCI outlet I replaced that was hit with a power washer, and in the project below I use a higher quality outdoor outlet cover. This kind of cover is…
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I wanted to walk you through the Skil right angle grinder repair I did this week. A while back, the plastic slide switch on this tool flew right off when I went to turn it on. Right angle grinders are not very expensive, but I hat the idea of tossing out a perfectly good tool…
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In hindsight, I would have done this one different. But here’s the story: One of my best friends needed to replace the roof hatch on his row house in Brooklyn. This also happens to be the roof where we keep our honeybees. Replacing the roof hatch is pretty straightforward, go buy a new steel one,…
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Every year I try to extend my vegetable garden season into winter, and get a head start on the spring season while there is still snow on the ground, with mediocre success. This is going to change now that I am re-reading Niki Jabbour’s Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, an excellent read on garden season extenders, as…
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Some garden books say you can’t transplant snap peas, instead just direct sow them early. I disagree. When we say snap peas, I think most of us mean sugar snap peas, the kind that barely make it from the garden into the kitchen. Someone has taught the Labradors to eat peas, so most of our…
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It’s the first really hot day of the year. You climb up on the roof, and the new hive – a bee package we installed this spring – has tons of bees all over it. There’s a liquid sugar feeder on the top of this hive, and 10′ away is a mature hive that might…
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I used to be something of a pack rat, now I’m that guy always getting rid of stuff. Before, I always thought something might be useful later on. My thinking was, “I might need that one day.” No more. I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but now I get excited to look at the…
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When sparks fly out of it, its time to replace a GFCI outlet. My neighbor had his house power washed, and not sure how, but the power wash wand managed to blast up in to the GFCI outlet. Bad, very bad. I’m sure the power washer operator knew something was wrong when the sparks and…
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I have used a stovetop pressure cooker for years. Then a friend of mine showed me his Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. Then I bought one. Buy Yours Here: Instant Pressure Cooker 6 Quart Watch our review video and read on for more info below the video. [Being up front here, the above link is to…
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I realized I bit off more than I could chew about one week into this year’s maple syrup season. Ever think about a project for months, only after you start you realize, OK what did I get myself into? That’s me this year making maple syrup. First I built a new homemade maple syrup evaporator,…
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There are some good foraging guide books for the whole of North America, as well as other continents, but even better are edible plant guides that are local to your area. Here are a some that I like. In the U.S., the northeast and the southwest are very different with regard to native plants, so…
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To me, Garlic Mustard Weed isn’t a weed, its a salad green, right alongside Mesclun. Maybe because it is so ubiquitous in my area people call it a weed. I call it free food. Garlic mustard weed identification is pretty easy, not many plants look like this. These photos are of a the mustard in…
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Make these quick swarm traps when you have some spare beekeeping parts on the shelf. The parts are just sitting there, so we might as well use them, right? Here’s how I build a swarm box using that famous GardenFork mantra: Use What You Got. I had some frames from a dead hive, plus some…
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You’ve probably seen one or three of my mini greenhouse plans videos. The most recent one talks about the complete fail of the plastic cover in the middle of winter. Here are the photos that show my attempt at repair before the complete breakdown of the covering. My big mistake 4 months prior to the…
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If you want your appliances to last longer, don’t buy smart appliances. Here’s why: 3 things have stuck in my head recently so I thought if I would write this all down, it would maybe get out of my head. First, I just fixed my sister’s portable generator. It was a freebie that hadn’t run…
