D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who has vowed to pay for her “Healthy Schools” legislation one way or another, has asked colleagues to approve a tax on soda sales in the District of Columbia as a means of raising the estimated $6.5 million annual cost of the omnibus bill aimed at improving school nutrition [...]
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I do most of the food gardening around our house, but my wife is really the expert, so I love it when she gets inspired to work in the garden. Lately she’s been cleaning up around the perimeter and planting flower seeds. Then she attacked the herb bed. I might have spent 15 minutes on [...]
The joys of gardening are so simple: fresh compost, a ripe tomato, freshly picked salad, a happy earthworm, a flower in bloom. Every season brings something different to the garden tableau, something to lift our hearts and let us know what time of year we are in. Right now we know exactly what time it [...]
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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