Call me naive, but for some reason I never expected to run into a farmer using chemical fertilizers on his produce right here in Dupont Circle, the premier farmers market in the nation’s capitol. But I couldn’t help wondering when I saw this vendor’s table groaning under the biggest, most gigantic broccoli I’d ever seen. [...]
I took my usual walk to the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday and was surprised to see that the West Virginia farm family from whom we buy eggs had dropped the price of a dozen 75 cents to $4. “A sign of the times?” I asked the farm wife. I thought perhaps demand had [...]
Tags: chickens·eggs·farmer's markets·free range·local farming·organic
Drew Norman has been growing vegetables organically for 25 years and he’s still not sure “organic,” as currently defined, is the last word. I had a chance this week to visit with Drew Norman on the farm he started with wife Joan in White Hall, Maryland, north of Baltimore, when they were hardly more than [...]
Tags: local farming·organic
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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