I was out cutting the grass with our push mower early this morning when a middle-aged woman on a bicycle stopped on the sidewalk to tell me she and her husband were considering buying a house in the neighborhood. “Is it safe?” she asked. Naturally, I assumed she had murder, rape, robbery or some other [...]
Tags: urban gardens
It’s not every day you see potatoes being pulled from the ground in the middle of the city. Since our garden is in the front yard (no back yard here), people stopped on the sidewalk to watch and ask questions and simply marvel at food happening within spitting distance of a busy thoroughfare, about a [...]
Tags: potatoes·urban gardens
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” [...]
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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