Pattie Baker and I are fellow travelers in the garden and food activism realm. We’ve been trading tips and encouragement seems like forever. You can find her at Foodshed Planet. A native New Yorker, she moved to Atlanta but came through town this week with her kids. She dropped by yesterday morning to tour the [...]
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Happy birthday to me! We’re not a toddler any more, but actually three years old. Yes, hard as it may be to believe, it’s been three years already since we started The Slow Cook as a journal to record the adventures of growing an urban kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the [...]
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The new year brought a surprising revelation: my guest post questioning the current model for community gardens came in third place for the year at the internationally renowned Garden Rant blog. That would be in terms of the number of comments the post elicited from readers. My reward: the “Top 10 Garden Ranter” badge you [...]
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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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