I just returned from a week in Berkeley, CA, and found that my garden is wild for all the compost we placed in our beds this spring. Maybe a little too wild. The radishes were reaching for the sky, getting ready to make seed. But wait. They hadn’t made any radishes yet. There was nothing [...]
It’s only because I had not been paying close enough attention that I was walking around with the completely mistaken impression that nothing much was happening in the radish patch. From a distance, it looked like all foliage, no radishes. But with a Polar Express bearing down, I was out yesterday pulling anything edible from [...]
Cleaning out a garden bed recently I discovered these four black radishes. It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the three largest are all about the size of a fast-pitch softball. I have never seen radishes like this before (this is our first year for black radishes) and what is most amazing of all [...]
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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