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Building New Community Gardens

November 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments · food news

Do you know this woman? If you care at all about food gardening in the District of Columbia, you should. She is Kelly Melsted, the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation specialist in charge of overseeing the city’s community gardens. Kelly moved here two years ago from Arizona where, she says, food gardens are an everyday part […]

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Grassfed Beef: A Cosmic Convergence

November 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food news

How’s this for coincidence: I walked down to the Whole Foods yesterday to buy some pork tenderloin for a dinner party and who do I run into in front of the meat counter but Will Harris, beef farmer extraordinaire. You might recall Harris from the terrific videoI linked to recently in which a camera crew […]

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DC Food For All: A Blog Is Born

October 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · food news, urban agriculture

People were spilling out of the Big Bear Cafe onto the sidewalks at 1st and R streets NW last night. You might have thought it was just another wild party night in the nation’s capitol. But the drinks were all donated, the long line of food on the bar was made from ingredients gleaned earlier […]

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