There’s a reason we call them “string” beans. They have strings! Some of them are really nasty strings, too, if you let the beans get too old before picking them. But I must have been out of town when they sent this memo. I had no idea that I needed to monitor my string beans [...]
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It’s become an annual ritual, the raising of the trellises. I fashioned them out of 1 1/2-inch PVC plumbing pipe, two eight-foot lengths joined together with a “T” fitting to run the length of a garden bed. At each end are 90-degree elbows. The “T” and the elbows connect to three legs, each eight feet long. [...]
This week our food appreciation classes traveled to Costa Rica on our virtual world food tour. One of the most peaceful and stable democracies south of the border (Costa Rica has no standing army), it is situated between the Caribbean on the east and Pacific Ocean on the west, an ideal locale for fish lovers. [...]
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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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