Why does real food cost more, you ask? Take a look at the man on the left, down on his kness planting onions by hand. That’s Mike Klein, a farmer friend from Bandywine, MD, who is planting crops for his summer subscription service. I paid a visit to Mike and his wife Michelle yesterday to [...]
Tags: CSA·local farming·onions
…it must be delivery day for our box of goodies from the farm. Let’s see. What do we have here… …a gallon bag of mesclun…some Siberian kale…tender collards…a Ziploc of salad mix with tat soi and Asian mustard greens…English cress. And, for us “Yes-eggs” subscribers, one dozen eggs from Brett Grohsgal’s brown chickens. A veritable [...]
Tags: brassicas·CSA·farm subscription
A few snips here, a few snips there, and in just a few minutes we have a bowl full of kale, enough to feed four easily. This is the kale I planted September 20 of last year. The variety is called Red Russian and it survived a balmy December and January, then a bitterly cold [...]
Tags: kale·Middle Eastern·spring
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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