I had not intended to be a featured speaker when I took the Metro out to Anacostia yesterday to sit in on a meeting of the Early Childhood Obesity Collaborative. But there I was, waiting for the part of the agenda titled “Ward 8 Gardening Project” in the auditorium of Matthews Memorial Baptist Church, when the […]
The last time I sat in on a planning meeting for our neighborhood’s new community garden I was nearly run out of the room for suggesting it be built along the lines of a CSA farm, rather than simply providing plots to individuals. I reasoned that lots more food could be grown on a small […]
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This weekend I recorded the highest temperature ever in our compost pile here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House: 150 degrees. I love digging into the pile to deposit kitchen scraps, seeing steam wafting out of the debris, feeling a blast of heat. That’s bacteria at work, thermophiles who […]
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