Entries Tagged as 'urban agriculture'

Cool Pics from the Kojo Nnamdi Show in Today’s Post

March 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · garden, urban agriculture

There was a Washington Post photographer in the studio during my recent appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi show to illustrate a piece in today’s food section about Kojo’s James Beard Award-winning Wednesday food segment. I had already planned to bring some of my pickles along for Kojo to sample. But when I heard a photographer would [...]

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Profiles in Fertility: Maintaining Garden Soil Organically

March 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · garden, Sustainability, urban agriculture

For 4,000 years prior to the advent of factory-made fertilizers, the Chinese used every bit of organic matter they could lay their hands on–including their own excrement–to return to the soil the nitrogen and other nutrients their vegetable crops removed. It was only through meticulous attention to the cycle of terrestrial rot upon which new life [...]

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My Croc at Rooting D.C.

February 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Recipes, urban agriculture

My, how the Rooting D.C. confab has grown. Even in it’s very first year, local gardeners overran the facilities and the conclave was moved to the refurbished Carnegie Library, site of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Now in its third year, however, even these new digs look to be cramped. From what I saw, [...]

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