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Our guest this week is my East Coast doppelganger, Eric Rochow of <a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/">Gardenfork.tv</a> (who also interviewed me on <a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/toaster-repair-with-erik-of-root-simple-gf-radio-377">GardenFork Radio episode 377</a>). Eric covers all kinds of DIY topics: everything from gardening, to beekeeping to slow cooking to, well, just about anything you can think of. He also <a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/category/gardenfork-radio">produces an excellent podcast</a>. During our interview we discuss:</p>
<ul>
<li>Raised beds</li>
<li>Hoop houses</li>
<li>Crawl space vents for hoop houses</li>
<li>Foraging for garlic mustard</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stusilverstein.com/bread-earth-and-fire.html">Bread Earth and Fire</a> ebook</li>
<li>Decluttering</li>
<li>Beekeeping</li>
<li><a href="http://www.honeybeesuite.com/">Honeybeesuite.com</a></li>
<li>Mite treatment</li>
<li>Keeping bees in the winter</li>
<li><a href="http://mudsongs.org/">Mudsongs.org</a></li>
<li>That Flow Hive thingy</li>
<li>Bears!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/easy-birdhouse-plans-video">Birdhouses</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4pC3hH4rLM">No-knead bread in a slow cooker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/slow-cooker-pork-shoulder-with-beans">Slow cooking</a> and <a href="http://www.gardenfork.tv/pressure-cooker-reviews">pressure cooking</a></li>
<li>What to do with pallets</li>
</ul>
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A podcast about vegetable gardening, food preservation, home economics and DIY living. Hosted by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World.