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The Small House, The Tiny House Movement, The Not So Big House are all part of the Minimal Living Movement. I'm doing my best to reduce the clutter in my house, have fewer possessions, and I do live in a fairly small house, and I aspire to a Minimalist Lifestyle. But its pretty big compared to the Small House Andrew Odom is building for himself and his spouse. Today we talk with Andrew about Tiny Houses in general and how he came to start building his Tiny House. Andrews blogs about living with less at his site, Tiny rEvolution on the Tiny House Blog photo by wallyir

Mike and Eric talk about hurricane Irene, being a weather geek, the Allison House Weather Station that GardenFork uses, and Eric's new plywood boat video     WMR968 Weather Station is available from AmbientWeather.com

Mike and Eric talk about how to remove wallpaper and skim coat walls, then move on to urban foraging and the recent NY Times article about harvesting plants from city parks, then we segue into how to replace a car fender, and the caveats that go with working on a damaged car. Temporary email addresses allow to get into sites that require an email address confirmation, but you'd rather not give the site your regular email address. Sous vide cooking with a slow cooker, and how to control the temperature of a slow cooker for sous vide cooking comes next, with eric discussing his newest research. Here is the link to the Makezine.com page about sous vide controllers. we finish up talking about eric's newest thing, plywood boats. More to come on that one.   photo by KevinRosseel

Want to know the basics of how to raise honeybees? what kind of beekeeping equipment you need to buy? what kind of beekeeping veil to buy? where is the best place to put beehives? Listen to GardenFork Radio for a Beekeeping 101 , the basics of raising honeybees. The idea for this honeybee beekeeping show started when my friend & GF viewer Matt wanted to ask me some questions about starting beekeeping. I suggested we make it into a GardenFork Radio show, as I imagine there are a bunch of people out there with questions about the basic setup needed to start raising bees. We answer questions about the following Getting Started in Beekeeping Pre-assembled hive boxes - supers or ones you assemble? Beekeeper suit - veil features?  hats and hood-types How many boxes do I need for a hive? Plastic frames or beeswax frames for brood and honey? how many hive boxes do i need? Placement of beehives Better types of equipment or things you've learned? Pests and problems Beehive Problems with ants?  Mice?  Moths? How often should you do the powdered sugar treatment for varroa mites? Opening the hive - How often? - Better time of day? - Tips? Clothing Beekeeping gloves Blue Nitrile gloves you wear - sting-proof? How many supers - hive bodies do I need to leave for the bees in winter How to you remove honey from the honeycomb frames? What color do I paint my beehives supers boxes? We are going to do a follow up to this first Beekeeping 101 radio show next week. If you have some beekeeping questions, please let us know below or call our GardenFork Radio Voicemail line 860-740-6938 !

We are on the road today in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY visiting with Daniel Delaney. Daniel and I talk about if someone can turn on the webcam on your laptop, and relates a story about an artist who did something similar at a computer store, and was then visited by law enforcement Eric likes Daniel's great Bolognese sauce that he did for his What's This Food show, and we talk about how to can tomato sauces with a pressure cooker, and canning foods from the farmers market. The Karen Solomon book we talk about is Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It And Other Cooking Projects. Daniel relates about cooking crawfish and his trip to New Orleans, and how water chestnut flour in a cake is not a great thing. Eric tells how to propagate rhubarb, how to grow it, how to transplant it, and whether you can grow it from seed. Then we get into how lobster rolls are regional dishes , how they should be made. Mayonnaise or butter? or a mix? Eric was inspired to start salt water fishing by Ben Sargent founder of Brooklyn Urban Anglers Association. Daniel talks about the best spice rub to use on a pork shoulder that you are going to smoke. And how to smoke BBQ the quickest way possible using aluminum foil. Daniel talks about 110 stories, a kickstarter campaign he has helped promote and viewer mail about Moose, the black labrador!        

Emergency Preparedness, installing a generator in your home, hooking up generator transfer panels, and how to safely hook up your generator to your house is the subject of GardenFork Radio. We want to thank Barry for his viewer mail that started us off on our Emergency Preparedness show today. more cool stuff on www.GardenFork.TV   ph0to by roganjosh

If you want to keep deer from eating your plants, plant plants that the deer don't eat. Ruth Rogers Clausen, author of 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants, joins us to talk about how to keep deer out of your yard by choosing plants that are deer resistant or deer proof. Did you know that acorns attract deer? That fact is just one of the 'aha' moments I had when reading about how to deal with the deer problem in the garden and yard. The book is full of well done photographs and in addition to the 50 Deer Resistant Plants that are the main theme of the book, Ms Clausen lists additional companion plants to fill out your deer proof yard and garden. Win a copy of 50 Deer Resistant Plants! Here is how to participate in the giveaway of this great book on creating a Deer Proof Garden First: Add your name to the drawing by filling out the form below [form form-1] Second: Like the GardenFork Page on Facebook, Facebook.com/GardenFork or follow us on Twitter Twitter.com/GardenforkTV , If you are not liking or following GF already > click on the FB Like icon or Twitter to the right >   If you are not on Facebook or Twitter but want to be part of the drawing, please note that in the above submission form

Tracy joins Eric for a brother sister show, and talk about their recent dinner at the Oakhurst Diner in Millerton, NY , and Eric's penchant for spaghetti sandwiches. Then we talk about Atomic Ranch magazine, and mid-century ranch homes, furniture, and design. Campers and Trailers from the 50s and 60s come up next, a Vagabond Trailer is in Eric's neighbor's field. How to repair your toilet, Tracy tells of how she fixed her toilet tank flapper and tank valve, then we segue into how to repair your vacuum, as tracy tells of how to repair your vacuum. The wonder bar crowbar, a super handy tool, is used by Tracy to pull up and remove the old carpet from her dining room. Then we move into our vampire power video and how your cell phone charger is always using power, not just when its plugged into a cell phone. Smartphone apps Instapaper and Read It Later are discussed, and Eric likes Evernote. Tell us your thoughts on the GF Radio voicemail line: 860-740-6938 photo by melodi2

How to cook sous vide in a slow cooker or crock pot leads to many tangents on GardenFork Radio this week. GF listener Joe wrote in to tell of how he uses an older slow cooker, aka Crock Pot, to cook steaks sous vide. And Eric updates us on the honeybees, re-queening a weak hive. Then we talk about melding baking bread with the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day ( how to video here ) with the Jim Lahey's No Knead Bread dutch oven method ( how to video here ). and of course, viewer mail. Eric got his new honeybee queen from John at Warm Colors Apiary in Deerfield, MA