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Look What’s Coming Out of the Ground

April 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Excuse me while I gush over my fava beans. They are one of the first plants to emerge in the spring and they also happen to be one of the most interesting. As they grow, favas assume an architectural yet almost prehistoric looking structure. You would hardly know they were a bean. Yet these are […]

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Have Garden, Will Trade for Sausage

April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Last year I began trading some of the produce we grow in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia for venison a neighbor harvests on a family farm in Virginia. So far we had received two large packages of venison stew meat and some tenderloin. My last gift to them was a box […]

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Too Soon for Potatoes?

March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Just a few days ago it was starting to look like spring around our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. I was able to get out and sow spinach and fava bean seeds. And today my seed potatoes are scheduled to be shipped from Maine. But […]

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