Call me naive, but for some reason I never expected to run into a farmer using chemical fertilizers on his produce right here in Dupont Circle, the premier farmers market in the nation’s capitol. But I couldn’t help wondering when I saw this vendor’s table groaning under the biggest, most gigantic broccoli I’d ever seen. […]
Preparation time: 15 minutes Shopping: none Have you ever had broccoli fresh out of the garden? This is nothing like what you buy in the grocery store. Even at the farmers market. It may be an entirely different vegetable, the flavor is so much more intense and, well, cruciferous like. Unfortunately, our hot and humid […]
This is the first in what we hope will be a regular series of articles about Leigh Hauter and his CSA operation at Bull Run Farm in The Plains, Virginia. Leigh has been farming in the Washington area for 15 years, first at the Cheseapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm in Prince George’s County. He was […]
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