The idea of seasonality is not an easy one for young children to grasp. I’m hoping repetition will leave an impression. So this week we returned to the subject of asparagus in my “food appreciation classes.” And who could possibly object to eating fresh asparagus again and again and again? Children are fascinated by asparagus [...]
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Asparagus has a special place in the heart of the vegetable gardener. Being a perenniel, asparagus needs only to be planted once. Then, without much additional care, it will produce an abundance of lovely, fresh spears of asparagus year after year–for 15 years or more. Kids, it turns out, love asparagus as well. They like [...]
It’s that time of year again. I was working in the Washington Youth Garden on Tuesday and Chris, the garden manager, urged me to try some of the asparagus that is beginning to poke through the soil. There’s hardly anything better than snapping off an asparagus spear right out of the garden and eating it [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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