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AgriCulture: Buttoning Up But Not Shutting Down for Winter

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: We're feeling the restorative effects of a balmy late fall weekend. After a nasty beginning of last week, with hail and high winds that had our newly shorn

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AgriCulture: Naughty on the Hoof; Great on the Plate

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: People often say when they are trying to describe something difficult or impossible that, “It’s just like herding cats.” Well, we could one-up that and say, “Like herding pigs”

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AgriCulture: Taking a Long, Last Look at Our Flock

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: We are at that point in the season when we must begin to adjust our relationship to the turkeys from keepers of the flock to harvesters of the crop. Obviously,

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AgriCulture: From Nomad's Caravans to Luxury Condos

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: My first real experience of nomads was in 1962 in central Turkey near Konya on the old Silk Road. An intrepid group of us had just piled back into

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AgriCulture: What We Learned About Farming in Turkey

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Back from Turkey, but one would be hard pressed to call it a vacation, as Peter organized and led the trip, introducing the group to sites he knew intimately

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AgriCulture: The Urbanity of Farm Life

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Last year at this time I wrote of what seemed to be the “ho hum” nature of the 8th anniversary of an event that deeply affected our lives and,

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AgriCulture: Mob Rule in the Barnyard

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Is it the sweltering weather or is it the time of year that explains the cacophony of animal sounds engulfing the house these past few days? The relentless dah

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AgriCulture: Preserving the Harvest in Ketchup

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Peter’s reminiscences of tomatoes last week seems to have flowed right into my stream of consciousness.  Like other Americans, when I think of tomatoes, it is natural for

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AgriCulture: My Life in Tomatoes

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: As you may have already sensed, I am at an age when everything has a history. So when I think of tomatoes, my mind goes back to my first

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AgriCulture: What Do Livestock Think?

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Last week Peter wrote about animal learning, and whether domestic animals like farm animals might actually learn by observing humans.  This week what's on my mind is

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AgriCulture: Our Three Sadder-But-Wiser Sheep

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: We are not in any way experts on animal behavior, by no means, but we have had lots of opportunities these past ten years for keen observation. We are

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AgriCulture: The Sensuous Farm, Adults Only

Rural Intelligence bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: I’ve read that one of the most popular uses of the internet is to gain access to pornography. If small farm agriculture is going to compete in the

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