All over the country, food banks are running low because of economic hard times. Meanwhile, tons of food goes uneaten. In fact, by some estimates, half of all the edibles we create go to waste. But some groups actually do something about it, collecting otherwise unwanted food and distributing it to the needy. Lately I’ve been [...]
Tags: food banks·gleaning
Bread for the City is one of those organizations that normally works behind the scenes, not only feeding the poor but providing a variety of badly needed social services. The group also has a dynamite blog that lately has been dishing up some cogent–and very scary–analyses of how Mayor Adrian Fenty’s recessionary budget proposals, scheduled [...]
Do you have room in your garden for a few extra vegetables? Or perhaps you are already growing more than you and your family can eat. Now there’s no excuse not to direct the nutritious extra food from your garden to people who can really use it. The Capitol Area Food Bank has started a [...]
Tags: charities·sharing produce
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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