Do you buy sweet potato seedlings? Or do you prefer to sprout your own sweet potatoes? I always thought of sprouting sweet potatoes as an elementary school project. But apparently that’s what some gardeners do to plant their sweet potatoes. I guess that makes me a lazy gardener. I get my plants from a small, [...]
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It’s a little known fact that people all over the Caribbean love salt cod. And why would that be? In the not too distant past, the waters of the North Atlantic were swarming with cod. Going back centuries, when the fish were first discovered off Canada, fisherman from Europe and especially the Portuguese would make [...]
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Yesterday’s post drew more than the usual number of comments. Rather than respond to each individually, I’m going to follow some of the threads that emerged. I am encouraged by the number of people who support the idea of treating community gardens more like collective farms. As expected, there are a number of gardeners out [...]
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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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