Blue crabs qualify as a “disaster.” Oysters have all but disappeared. Each year the Chesapeake Bay spawns gigantic “dead zones” where nothing can live. The Chesapeake Bay is dying. The entire region continues to use it as a dumping ground for pollution. And for years all we’ve heard is talk about how something needs to [...]
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Only recently the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s annual report showed the health of the bay getting worse, not better. Water quality is down, crabs are down, oysters are almost gone. It has been all but acknowledged that local states will fail to reach their goal of cleaning up the Cheseapake by 2010. But the federal government [...]
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The Chesapeake Bay used to be one of the greatest food sources in the world. It teemed with fish, crabs and oysters. But the latest “State of the Bay” report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) says conditions on the bay are getting worse, not better. This year the foundation gave the bay’s health a [...]
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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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