Growing your own food, you sometimes forget how much better it tastes than the stuff at the supermarket. Then a small bite shakes you back into reality. Case in point: our spinach. Spinach is notoriously difficult to grow here in the District of Columbia. Our springs are too short. It gets hot and sticky too [...]
If community gardens are going to be relevant to a sustainable future they’ll need to cease behaving as quiet refuges for individual gardeners and start reaching out to the broader community. In case you haven’t noticed, areas of the city that most desperately need fresh produce are the same areas that have the fewest public [...]
Chives may be one of our most undervalued treasures. They come back year after year, adding a bit of green garlicky flavor to omelets and sauces, and every year around this time they produce dozens of little flower buds that burst into spiky, lavender-colored pom-poms. They brighten our path to the front door as we pass [...]
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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