From our own Department of Parks and Recreation: Intro to Urban Composting April 14th through May 12th Wednesdays 6:30pm – 8:30pm Columbia Heights Recreation Center Master Composter Kaitlin Rienzo- Stack will lead a five week course on the wonders of “black gold,” with a special focus on urban composting issues. Learn how to turn kitchen [...]
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I do a lot of foraging for compost ingredients. But sometimes compost comes from unexpected places. Our friend Timothy and her housemates had been making compost in a Rubbermaid trash can using all their kitchen scraps. When it came time for them to move, Timothy asked me if I wanted their compost-in-progress. Yesterday, while they [...]
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This weekend I recorded the highest temperature ever in our compost pile here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House: 150 degrees. I love digging into the pile to deposit kitchen scraps, seeing steam wafting out of the debris, feeling a blast of heat. That’s bacteria at work, thermophiles who [...]
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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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