With pollanistas everywhere urging the public to stop eating meat as a way of slowing global warming, it’s refreshing to see people who know a thing or two about raising meat sustainably speak out in defense of one of our most nutritious foods. Not long ago, Eliot Coleman, the acclaimed produce farmer, was roused to […]
Tags:global warming·grassfed·meat
Making compost is a second occupaton for The Slow Cook. Since we garden organically, without chemical fertilizers or pesticides, our source of fertility consists of what’s in the ground already and what we add to it in the form of compost. Being in the city, about a mile from Michelle Obama’s White House garden here […]
Tags:compost·kitchen scraps
This week was the big rollout of our local farm to school network here in the District of Columbia, but for me it was more like a tale of two cities. My job was to give food demonstrations to the kids in two elementary schools, one a predominantly white school in an affluent area of […]
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