French breakfast radishes, planted March 9
The fava bean blossoms--white wings with a big, black dot--look like a swarm of butterflies alighted in the garden.
Rhubarb is desperate to reproduce also, but the seeds are not true to the parent.
Peas are almost ready to open.
Mizuna makes a dainty, four-petaled flower--a true brassica.
Arugula is in the same family, but its flower is white. It's one of our favorites, especially in a Mother's Day salad.
Tags: flowers·garden·spring·vegetables
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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