One way to improve school meals is to include more locally grown food, and apparently that doesn’t mean just local fruits and vegetables. In one school district in Oregon, they decided to switch out the commodity USDA burgers in the cafeterias with local, grass-fed beef and the results are now in: The kids loved it. [...]
Here’s a news flash: The District of Columbia public school system is in the process of ditching pre-made, heat-and-serve meals and converting to fresh-cooked lunches. In some school, the meals will actually be cooked in on-site kitchens. This move seems to have flown under the radar. But the intel we have as of today is that [...]
Tags: school lunches·USDA
Time to get out of the car and walk. New satellite data indicates that the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting much faster than anyone expected. As measured by 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite, the rate of thinning in some areas of Antarctica is 50 percent faster than just a decade [...]
Tags: environment·global warming
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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