Here’s a gem of a film that’s flown largely under the radar but should be seen by anyone who’s the least concerned about the food being served in schools. Independent filmmaker Amy Kalafa and dentist-turned-nutritionist Susan Rubin were both fed up with the junk food their children were being exposed to in school and spent [...]
For the last several months I’ve been meeting with the adviory board of a new D.C. Farm to School Network. Like the programs in more than 2,000 other schools around the country, the idea is to find ways to introduce healthful produce from area farms into the District of Columbia Schools. The concept dates to the [...]
I got laid off this week. Well, it’s just the last two weeks of my food appreciation classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia that I’ll be missing. Apparently they’re tightening belts even in places where tuition is around the same as my mortgage payment, and with only two weeks [...]
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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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