This was a propitious week for us, the beginning of our winter CSA subscription. The first box from Even’ Star Organic Farm in Lexington Park, MD arrived on Thursday. Inside the box were some lovely Beauregard sweet potatoes along with one very long Courge de Longue squash (very much like a butternut squash), some arugula, [...]
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Another of the rites of spring is starting a new compost pile. I’ve been extremely busy lately–the warmer weather brings on a flurry of activities–and with the intermittent rains my lawn just kept getting taller and taller. Not such a horrible thing, as the grass clippings make an excellent addition to the compost pile. The [...]
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…it must be delivery day for our box of goodies from the farm. Let’s see. What do we have here… …a gallon bag of mesclun…some Siberian kale…tender collards…a Ziploc of salad mix with tat soi and Asian mustard greens…English cress. And, for us “Yes-eggs” subscribers, one dozen eggs from Brett Grohsgal’s brown chickens. A veritable [...]
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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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