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In Praise Of The Cider Donut
Mary A. Nelen offers a tribute to the apple cider donut experience.
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AgriCulture: Spring Awakening
Turkana Farm bloggers await the arrival of spring...and more work.
AgriCulture: The High Price of Gas
Turkana Farm bloggers talk methane, climate change, and the truth about grain-fed animals.
AgriCulture: Waste Not, Etc.
AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY, consider how to make sensible use of leftover resources: whether it's animal feed (in their case) or vegetable residue collected in the kitchen sink. The forward-thinking duo find deciding what's worth an upcycle can be a tricky task when in a society that makes little of what could be given a second shot.
AgriCulture: Hay Fever
Through raising grazing animals, including beef cattle for market, Turkana Farms AgriCulture bloggers, Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, have become something of hay connoisseurs. The duo learned the detailed value of the preserved animal feed, which becomes especially important in winter (this time of year the farms receives deliveries from Stone House Farms) when the challenges and implications of animal feeding are far more intricate.
AgriCulture: Mommie, Dearest
AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY continue on last week's quandary about animal DNA and inexplicable behaviors. From rats in leather jackets to mother ewes who abandon their lambs at birth, Nature, remains a mystery.
AgriCulture: Hormonal Rush
Our AgriCulture bloggers Mark Scherzer and Peter Davis of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY talk about the birds and the bees, or rather the lambs and the rams, after finishing "The Chemistry Between Us", a book about sexual attraction.
Heat Wave
Climate change, with rising temperatures, does all sort of strange things to the animals down on the farm.
AgriCulture: Going Rogue
AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms in Germantown ask what brings out the best in all of us (mammal and human) when it comes to making new years resolutions.
A Nuns’ Story: Sacred Hearts and Heady Cheeses at Sprout Creek Farm
Farmer nuns perform ancient Druid winter solstice ceremony. Nationally celebrated cheeses, as well as educational farming programs, are produced and presented by a bevy of socially conscious nuns at Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie, NY.
The Handy (and High Minded) Hoarder
On the farm, an obsession for saving and recycling everything from farm machinery to packing materials for reuse
AgriCulture: In Grateful Memoriam
AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer offer an ode to the transformation of the plucky poultry Turkey, from farm yard to feast.
AgriCulture: Talkin’ Turkey
AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davis and Mark Scherzer talk turkey and muse about what you’ll be sitting down to eat (no doubt in its whole form) this holiday.
Après Le Déluge
Our farmer bloggers deal with the havoc wrought by recent weather.
Back in the Swim of Things
Our AgriCulture bloggers return from a long trip abroad to find piglets, stubborn turkeys, flooded ponds, and familiar beauty back on the ol’ homestead.
Finally Home, Turkey In Retrospect
The Turkana boys are back from Turkey, with introspection to spare.
AgriCulture: Turkana in Turkey, The Journey Continued
Turkana Farms' Peter Davies reports on olives and solar panels in Turkey.