I look forward to planting garlic in the fall. It connects me to my garden next year, reassuring me that the too long winter ahead will yield something wondrous. The cloves I plant now will soon send up shoots that will survive through cold and ice and become mature plants on the other side of [...]
Tags: fall planting·garlic
You’ve probably been asking yourself, What does it take to get The Slow Cook really excited? Oh, nothing more than a bit of row cloth, some plastic tubing and a little sunshine. You see, in years past I’ve tried to start my fall and winter crops in seed trays only to have hateful birds swoop [...]
We’ve been watching several volunteer potato plants and cheering them on as fall stretches toward winter. Would they actually survive long enough to make new potatoes? They were in the pink of health well into November and seemed to love the cooler temperatures. But then this week a blast of arctic air moved into the [...]
Tags: fall planting·garden·potatoes
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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