Before I ever dreamed of becoming a newspaper reporter my hero was Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko. As well as being an incredibly skiflfull reporter and inciteful commentator on all matters municipal, Royko had a wicked sense of humor. At one point he suggested a new motto for the great Chicago seal. He said it [...]
Tags: community gardens
If community gardens are going to be relevant to a sustainable future they’ll need to cease behaving as quiet refuges for individual gardeners and start reaching out to the broader community. In case you haven’t noticed, areas of the city that most desperately need fresh produce are the same areas that have the fewest public [...]
Last year I began trading some of the produce we grow in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia for venison a neighbor harvests on a family farm in Virginia. So far we had received two large packages of venison stew meat and some tenderloin. My last gift to them was a box [...]
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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