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AgriCulture: The Road to Turkana, Part IV

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY.  Given the tragedy that has recently befallen a local farmer (see Media Matters on the Home Page), Peter, who wrote this week's blog, was quick to point out that the following litany of complaints

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AgriCulture: Efficiency Has Its Own Costs

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: When I left the farm Tuesday, our sow, Miranda, extremely pregnant, her udders swollen with milk, was barely stirring herself out of her farrowing hut, not showing her usual enthusiasm for her

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AgriCulture: The Road to Turkana, Part 3

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: It's a new year and our sheep are on the qui vive, producing a baby lamb every few days, six so far. And all of them are black, their wool

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AgriCulture: The Carnivore's Dialectic—Food for Thought

Just before the holiday break, Peter Davies of Turkana farms in Germantown wrote about eating heritage breeds in order to save them (to refresh your memory, please scroll down).  Enid Futterman, editor of the periodical, Our Town in Claverack, NY, wrote to Peter and his partner Mark Scherzer to express

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AgriCulture: The Road to Turkana, Part II

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: A few days after Thanksgiving, a doctor from Washington State left a message on my answering machine: "I saw those turkeys in The New York Times a couple of days ago

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AgriCulture: Food Production and Health Care

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Just when I think I have things somewhat figured out, along comes someone with a whole new angle to set me to rethinking. Several weeks back, I speculated that perhaps the family

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AgriCulture: The Long and Winding Road to Turkana Farms

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: More and more often, of late, we are approached by interested parties who want to know why and how we got into farming. Some of them seem more than interested; in fact,

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AgriCulture: "Food Insecurity"? How About Just Plain "Hunger"

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: You may think I'm suffering from a case of eater's remorse, but in fact even before the recent holiday, I was giving a lot of thought to how

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AgriCulture: Ten Years Hence, There is Much to be Thankful For

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: This will be our tenth Thanksgiving at Turkana Farms. And we can be thankful that the house has, at last, been fully restored, the final room being the eighteenth-century basement kitchen

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AgriCulture: The Superior Long Island Cheese Pumpkin

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Although it's Friday the 13th, things seem relatively stable here on the farm. The coyotes have returned, but the calf is sticking close by his mama and has not

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AgriCulture: One Man's Meat

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: As the days grow shorter, and evening chores must be started earlier before darkness settles in, everything begins to take on a different aura at the farm. Not only are the

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AgriCulture: Can The Family Farm Be Saved?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: After the bone chilling cold of a few weeks ago, we’ve rebounded and had some perfect autumn weather. Some of the fall crops, such as leeks, brussels sprouts and turnips,

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