After watching our Simple Brick Oven Plan Video, Roger sent us these photos of his Brick Oven Construction. He has modified the Brick Pizza Oven Plan we used to be able to hold more heat and make a Backyard Brick Bread Oven. Enjoyed your brick oven video. We found the same plan after being inspired...
Beekeeping for Beginners FAQ Part 2 : GF Radio
Matt joins Eric to answer Beekeeping for Beginners questions on this show. What equipment to buy, how to buy honeybees, where to put beehives in your yard, what kind of beekeeping suit to buy all answered here. what kind of beekeeping suit and beekeeping veil is good? what kind of frames should i use in...
Homemade Brick Pizza Oven Video
Build this homemade brick pizza oven in your backyard with recycled used clay bricks and a recycled metal mattress frame. And the pizza oven is portable! You can assemble this in 20 minutes, make homemade pizzas, then take it apart and store it. Most backyard pizza ovens are big and permanent, this homemade brick oven...
Truck Stop Meatloaf Recipe with Potato Chips
Ah, meatloaf — it brings back memories of a cross-country road trip, getting lost, and finding a diner that served the best home-cooked meals. The meatloaf was delicious, moist and smooth, but the waitress was salty. I asked her what was in it, she made a crack about lost college kids. In a hushed tone...
Avoid Potholes, Save Money GF Radio
Eric and Mike talk about car repair and how to save money by (safely) avoiding potholes, as hitting potholes can have an impact on bearings that is pricey to fix. Rick asks us to consider celebrating New Years on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) so you can have a party and still get to bed at...
Aquaponics Part 1
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,...
There Ought to be an App for That: Annoyance Calls
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...
Pizza Oven Sneak Preview
Probably the only people to see this post are the ones who read GF on an RSS feed or similar gizmo. Here is a surveillance photo of the said portable wood fired brick pizza oven. Video will happen next week.
Before I put this dog down...
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...
New Years, Growing mushrooms, Aquaponics on GF Radio
Eric and Mike start off their new years day show with Chris Brogan and his 3 words for 2012, Eric suggests not going to Times Square for New Years Eve, you probably wont like it, its very crowded. Fireplace safety comes up next, Eric suggests everyone have glass doors or a wire screen over their...
life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact GF Radio
The Human Potential in all of us, eric calls it, and we talk about it again today on GF Radio. Steve Jobs talking about how we are all capable of all sorts of stuff, from this YouTube video. From Monica we learned about the website, The99percent.com, and talk about how to find your work sweet...
Roasting Turkey on a Charcoal Grill
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.
Rich Gee, Executive Coach & Gardener GF Radio
Rich Gee, head of The Rich Gee Group - Executive and Business Coaching , joins Eric today to talk about what keeps us from doing stuff we want to do, but can't seem to get going on. We also talk about eggnog and making plywood boats .
Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe Video GF.TV
Sugar cookies are an easy christmas cookie recipe, even I can make these holiday cookies, maybe. Watch here and learn how to make sugar cookies for Christmas and the holidays. Universal Sugar Cookie Recipe This sugar cookie recipe is based on one Chris Kimball wrote about, saying its the universal recipe used by almost every...
Socca: A Flat Bread Recipe
Although this batch of socca is fresh from my Brooklyn oven, it’s origins are in Southern France. Socca (faranita) is a crépe made with chickpea flour, it’s similar to the savory Indian “chila,” but much less complicated. Bean flours are a good alternative to wheat flour — very high in protein and fiber. In Nice,...
Grow Mushrooms In Your Yard, Backyard Oyster Mushroom Spore Inoculation
Growing mushrooms in my yard, instead of having to go foraging for mushrooms, is a goal of mine. Mushroom growing is not rocket science, but for mushrooms to grow, the environment must be perfect for that particular kind of mushroom. On our hike yesterday, I came across a dead oak tree full of oyster mushrooms,...
Sugar Cake Recipe for Honeybees - Beekeeping 101
This winter feeding sugar cake recipe is an alternative to making fondant to feed your bees. From what I read in beekeeping magazines and online forums, it seems many people are moving to simple cakes of sugar, an alternative to sugar candy, which is a pain to make. We use these cakes in our winter...
DIY Insulated Inner Cover - Beekeeping 101
Here is the DIY insulated inner cover I built to prevent condensation in our beehives using easily purchased materials. All the hives we have lost have been in the late winter - early spring due to, I believe, condensation and varroa mite load. This year I am determined to eliminate condensation from our hives. Here...