Here’s a switch from the usual eggs and bacon. A neighbor recently gifted us with about 30 pounds of venison from their family farm in Virginia. The package included several tenderloins. Some went into the freezer. Others I marinated for a couple of days in red wine with thyme, onion, garlic, juniper berries–the usual suspects–then [...]
Our fall crop of salad greens is coming up nicely. In the photo above from left to right are ragged edge collards, arugula, red mustard and mizuna. Sounds like a perfect salad bowl to me. In fact, I broadcast my own mix of salad seeds in one area and am a bit disappointed to see that [...]
I spent the better part of the weekened paying back for all that good compost we laid on the vegetable beds in the spring. The cosmos were seven feet tall. The zinnia were so big they had simply collapsed and were splayed all over the ground. The “mammoth” variety sunflowers had grown into sequoias, towing over [...]
Tags: compost·fall·germination·greens·planting
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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