We are working our way through spring’s seasonal fruits and vegetables in our “food appreciation” classes. Kids love engaging the food with their hands and strawberry shortcake gives them plenty to do, such as cutting the butter into the flour for our biscuits. You can do this with knives or forks, but we like doing […]
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Spinach hates heat. For the most part, we’ve had an unusually cool and moist spring here in the District of Columbia. Intermittently, temperatures have climbed into the upper 70s and even surpassed 80 degrees. Well that apparently was enough for our spinach to throw in the towel. We planted it March 4, and lately it […]
The garden at my daughter’s charter school here in the District of Columbia is into its third season. A year ago a nearby condominium association donated five of these big, sturdy metal benches. I had the perfect spot for them: surrounding our herb garden, where my gardening partner, Elizabeth, built this brilliant, ceramic-lined pond. I […]
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