Here’s an aerial view of our front-yard kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. Can you tell it’s still spring? In the view looking north, you can see the garlic we planted last fall next to the red mustard greens also from last fall that we are [...]
All I wanted was a bit of compost. Instead, this truck backed up to our driveway and dumped a huge pile. I had to get creative, so I built a long hill for potatoes that I had never intended to plant. I formed a trench down the middle of the hill, then planted it with [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, soil is one of my favorite subjects. The greatest event that takes place in our garden is not the vegetable harvest at the end of the season, but the day our food scraps and dried leaves and coffee grounds transform from “waste” into new soil, or what we call “compost.” [...]
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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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