Excuse me if I sound out of breath but these last two weeks I have been transitioning from a summer food garden to a fall and winter food garden in what used to be our front lawn here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. The seedlings that were planted [...]
This is high season for greens. The very early varieties–spinach, mizuna, arugula–have faded from the scene. They were already flowering, trying to make seed. Out they go to make room for something else. But now we have lovely beds crammed with mustard greens and collards. I like to braise them in a heavy pot with [...]
I had to make a sudden switch in my garden planting scheme this year after I decided to stop eating starchy carbohydrates. I had ordered a variety of favorite legumes–cranberry beans, black-eyed peas, peanuts–and realized there was no point taking up valuable garden space with them if we didn’t plan to eat them. Instead, I [...]
Tags: brassicas·spring·vegetables
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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