Category: How To

How to Open a Swimming Pool is about the procedures I use to open the in-ground swimming pool.  I did a post and video on how to winterize your pool back in the fall.  This process takes you from that point up to the point that your pool is ready to swim in. Great Escape…

Propagating Raspberries is a “how to” on propagating raspberries from suckers of the original mother plant, also known as primocanes. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon!  If you enjoy our work and want to help support us, please check out our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/gef. You can support us for as little as $1.…

Large Rainwater Harvesting System Upgrade part 3 is the third in a multipart series on upgrading my rainwater harvesting system from 1200 gallons to 4500 gallons.  This video shows the lower half of the plumbing. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon!  If you enjoy our work and want to help support us, please check…

Large Rainwater Harvesting System Upgrade part 2 is the second in a multipart series on upgrading my rainwater harvesting system from 1200 gallons to 4500 gallons. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon!  If you enjoy our work and want to help support us, please check out our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/gef. You can support…

On Saturday April 15th 2017, I attended the Baltimore City Fruit Tree Fair where I presented a Companion Planting Workshop.  In the companion planting workshop, I went into a few plants that go together and explained the concepts of a guild.  Below are my notes from the companion planting workshop. Great Escape Farms is now…

This video is about pruning overgrown apple trees.  This is not the way that you prune an apple orchard yearly.  The tree shown here has been pruned once in the last eight years and is quite overgrown. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon! If you enjoy our work and want to help support us,…

This post is about Preparing Elderberries for Recipes.  I originally harvested them and just tossed them in the freezer for future processing.  That future processing is what we will cover today. Timeline I harvested my elderberries on September first.  I left them on the stem, removed any bugs I found, washed them, put them in…

In How to Make Kombucha Part 2 we get into flavoring and the second ferment where we will bottle the brew and get some carbonation. Flavor In this batch, I’m using ginger to make a ginger ale flavored brew.  I’m doing this because when I went to the store to get the starter tea, I…

This post is about How to Make Kombucha – Brewing the First Batch.  We cover how to brew it, do the first fermentation and discuss a little about the second fermentation. The Ingredients The ingredients required include eight tea bags, 3 ½ quarts of water, ½ quart of starter tea (kombucha from last batch), 1…