Leigh Hauter said he never saw it coming. “I didn’t realize it was getting that cold,” he said of the afternoon the Big Freeze descended. “We went for a walk and the water in the boiler was already frozen.” The wood-fired boiler in question is the one that heats farmer Hauter’s greenhouse and his thousands [...]
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Imagine trying to get 10,000 tiny seeds from seed packets into these growing trays. Now imagine 70,000 seeds. That’s what Leigh Hauter has been working on the past week–getting a jump start on the crops for his CSA at Bull Run Farm. So far, Leigh and his helper have 20,000 seeds planted and the broccoli [...]
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This is the first in what we hope will be a regular series of articles about Leigh Hauter and his CSA operation at Bull Run Farm in The Plains, Virginia. Leigh has been farming in the Washington area for 15 years, first at the Cheseapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm in Prince George’s County. He was [...]
Tags: broccoli·Bull Run Farm·CSA·eggplant·local farming·peppers·seeds·spring·tomatoes
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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