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Obama Foodorama Blog Just over a year ago now, on election day 2008, food policy writer Eddie Gehman Kohan launched the blog Obama Foodorama - to focus on …

Seasonal Cooking with Rita Calvert~The Local Cook with Jen Hurt as guest chef, artist and Edible Landscaper   As for Jen... Her true calling seems to be art, …

Seasonal Cooking with Rita Calvert~The Local Cook Good Bye, Dear Friend At this time of giving thanks, we need to have gratitude for all that Edible Chesapeake …

  Here's my monthly garden-coaching article about what a low-maintenance gardener (ME) really does, and still has a garden she's thrilled to look at.   So it …

[Part 1 covered  whether to remove dead leaves in the garden.] If you've decided to do something positive with your dead leaves (as opposed to, say, sending …

Seasonal Cooking with Rita Calvert~The Local Cook    

It all started when an article called "Leaf it Be!" was distributed via email list to gardeners around Metro DC.   In it, the author comes to the rescue of …

What Is It? True spaghetti squash is pale ivory to pale yellow in color, in the early 1990’s, an orange spaghetti squash, known as “Orangetti” was developed …

Guest Post by Kathy Jentz, Publisher/Editor of Washington Gardener Magazine Local Plants We hear a lot these days about locally grown food to help the …

  It sort of goes like this.  A customer asks, “Do you sell bales of hay?”  My response is, “No, but we do sell bales of straw”, which is immediately followed …