It’s that time of year when scenes like this unfold in our neighborhood here in the nation’s capitol: a National Park Service employee pushing leaves around the sidewalk with the most polluting device known to man–a gas-powered leaf blower. Does anybody else remember when we did this with a broom and rake? How do we […]
Peeling back a layer of our compost pile this morning to deposit some kitchen scraps I was hit with a blast of heat. “I wanna see the steam! I wanna see the steam!” daughter shouted when I returned to the house to tell what was happening in our garden. She approached the compost pile warily, […]
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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 […]
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