In case you missed us in the April 20 issue of People magazine, they’ve now posted the article (or some of it, anyway), online. Originally we were in our very own box at the end of a kind of triptych of American gardening portraits, families who had turned their lawns into vegetable gardens, with “before” [...]
Our old electric lawn mower from Costco started to sound more like an egg beater so I kissed it goodbye and joined the ranks of modern push-reelers. It’s a great feeling not to be trailing that power cord through the garden, knocking over my lettuces and onion plants. And now I don’t have to answer [...]
Tags: environment·lawns
I know. If I want to be really kind to the environment I should be using a manual push mower. But I’ve never progressed that far in my carbon footprint scheme. I’m still using an electric mower. I consider it vastly gentler on the planet than the two-stroke gasoline monsters that power most mowers and [...]
Tags: environment·lawns
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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