The last time I sat in on a planning meeting for our neighborhood’s new community garden I was nearly run out of the room for suggesting it be built along the lines of a CSA farm, rather than simply providing plots to individuals. I reasoned that lots more food could be grown on a small [...]
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Our friend Pattie at FoodShed Planet writes today about a remarkable couple in San Antonio, Texas, whose full-time occupation is running a small non-profit that provides heirloom garden seeds free to anyone who wants them. You don’t even have to pay for the postage. Pattie for some time has been crusading for victory gardens and [...]
Cintia Cabib doesn’t really garden herself. But she knows how to capture the spirit of gardening on film. And soon we may all get a chance to see the film she is making about the many dimensions of community gardening–and the communities that gardens create–here in the District of Columbia. Viewers of Public Television may [...]
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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