I hadn’t really known until recently, but the best reason to purchase grassfed beef over conventional may be pot roast. This big piece of chuck was delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland, which keeps a herd of beef cattle in addition to its dairy cows. The first thing you notice is [...]
How’s this for coincidence: I walked down to the Whole Foods yesterday to buy some pork tenderloin for a dinner party and who do I run into in front of the meat counter but Will Harris, beef farmer extraordinaire. You might recall Harris from the terrific videoI linked to recently in which a camera crew [...]
One way to improve school meals is to include more locally grown food, and apparently that doesn’t mean just local fruits and vegetables. In one school district in Oregon, they decided to switch out the commodity USDA burgers in the cafeterias with local, grass-fed beef and the results are now in: The kids loved it. [...]
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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