Here’s my gift to planet earth: When I have to run errands, I leave the car in the driveway and walk. We had a couple of books that needed to be returned the the library. That would be the central library here in the District of Columbia, the Martin Luther King Jr. Library downtown. That’s […]
Food gardeners can’t prevent global heating, but we don’t have to contribute to the problem. The Union for Concerned Scientists has put out a helpful guide with steps we can all take to not only reduce our carbon footprint but maintain carbon safely in the soil where it belongs. Composting and cover-cropping are steps that help […]
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I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the fifth in a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here, here, here and here. One unfortunate aspect of the sewer system design […]
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