When we check our honeybee hives, we first just stand there and observe them. We could tell there was something wrong with one of the hives. It was quiet, the hive next to it was buzzing with activity. We opened it up to hear this odd low frequency hum in the hive, not something you...
Drip Irrigation Helps This Sidewalk Container Garden Grow
I ran across this soaker hose drip irrigation setup in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Using drip irrigation to water a container garden is great, as the soil in containers dry out fast, especially those pots made out of terra cotta. The setup shown in the pictures here is similar to the one we built for our...
Signs of the Pileated Woodpecker
When we're hiking, we often come across trees that have piles of fresh woodchips at the base of the tree, and farther up the trunk is a large hole. I didn't know what this was, so I did some research. Turns out this is the work of the Pileated Woodpecker, a fairly large bird who...
Tap Maple Trees to Make Maple Syrup How To - GF Video
Tapping maple trees to make maple syrup in this DIY video. We tap our Sugar Maple trees to collect sap in preparation for making maple syrup. This is a DIY low tech low volume method of tapping some trees in your yard or perhaps a neighbor's field. Several of my neighbor's have sugar shacks complete...
Trimble Overnight Cole Slaw Recipe
From a GF viewer, an interesting recipe for cole slaw: Trimble Over-Night Slaw Eric, like I said, this has been a requested side for generations. Now we DO love our normal Cole Slaw (being from the South, it's a MUST have with pulled pork BBQ and fried or grilled seafood) but this slaw recipe is...
Chocolate Cake & Truck Repair GF Radio
The 5 minute chocolate mug cake recipe video how to starts off the show, as Eric and Mike discuss making the 5 min microwave cake. Eric fixed the posted recipe, hoping no one actually put 2 tablespoons of salt in the cake. Katja from Holland tells us that the Dutch use butter, not oil in...
Labrador Charlie Pup In The Tub
We have a spring in back of the house that overflows into an old clawfoot tub, and after a hike in the woods, Charlie pup runs ahead on the trail and jumps in to this tub. She loves it. What does your pup do like this?
5 Minute Chocolate Cake In A Mug Recipe : GF video
5 Min chocolate cake mug cake is a simple easy recipe to make quick chocolate cake in your microwave. mix the chocolate cake recipe, microwave for 2 minutes, and in 2 minutes you have chocolate cake. Here is the 5 minute chocolate cake recipe: 3 tablespoon of vegetable oil 1 egg 3 tablespoon milk, or...
Mike's Road Trips GF Radio
Mike tell us about his recent road trips to gaming conventions and Florida. then there's some viewer mail. photo by chelle
What is a colonoscopy? : GF Radio
What is a colonoscopy? how does a colonoscopy work? What's it like and why you should have one today on GardenFork Radio. Rick, Mike, and Eric talk about their colonoscopy experiences and how its not that big of a deal.
How To Poach Eggs GF.TV
Learn here how to poach eggs with Eric's simple poached egg recipe. Poaching eggs is a healthy way to cook eggs with no oil, you cook the eggs in water, hence the name, poached eggs. A properly cooked poached egg has a runny yolk, i think, but not too runny. You have to experiment with...
Honeycomb Surprise during beehive inspection
With spring coming early, we got to do our first inspection of the beehives last weekend. All our hives made it through the winter, which, despite the warm weather, is still a roll of the dice each year. Hive #1 was re-queened twice last year; the hive never thrived, and I wondered whether it would...
Tornado Safe Rooms, Tornadoes, & Storm Chasers GF Radio
Tyler joins us to talk about building tornado safe room or tornado shelter, his sister built a tornado safe room in the floor of her garage, and safe rooms were discussed at ChaserCon. Safe rooms can be pre-fab or built on site out of concrete or steel or a combination of rebar, cement, and cinderblocks....
Aquaponics 4 - Grow Beds & Siphons
aquaponics 4 from rick kennerly on Vimeo. update 4 on the aquaponics build out
Plywood Boat Video by Students in Denmark
I received this email today; We are a group of design students interested in recording and documenting processes involved with boat building. We modeled our first boat on the one in your video, and would like to know what you thought! Have you changed your boat in any way since you first made it? Do...
Replace the Front Wheel Bearings On Your Car GF.TV video
Yes, you can learn how to replace the front wheel bearings on your car or truck. Eric shows you how to repair your own truck wheel bearings, using his Ford F150. The front wheel bearings of his truck are making that classic wheel bearing 'whorl' sound, so we take an afternoon to make a wheel...
No, I will not fix your computer GF Radio
more on road rage and walking away from it. pinball history, mike talks about the influence on pinball by Steve Kordek, Eric reads from Mr Kordek's obituary in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/business/steve-kordek-innovator-of-pinball-game-dies-at-100.html mike shreds his paperwork and sets off the alarm at work and eric used to have long hair and a mowhawk, photos of...
Maple Syrup Season Update GF Radio
Eric talks with Bill of Maple Knoll Farm about tapping Maple Trees for sap, making maple syrup, and how this warm winter is affecting the maple syrup season. Bill can be seen in our GF Video Make Maple Syrup here. Bill has about 150 trees tapped, using metal buckets. He and his family collect the...