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AgriCulture: Spinach Tales

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Our fava beans, spinach, lettuces, cabbages, and swiss chard have germinated, and many other seeds are planted and not far behind. The earliest spring greens are coming in—a time

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AgriCulture: The Herd Instinct

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. We have returned from our glorious annual escape to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, with renewed energy to plunge back into the busy spring activities of the farm.

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AgriCulture: Land of the Lotus Eaters

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. As much as I loved New Orleans when I lived there, it was, I am convinced (after living on Turkana Farms these past twelve years), one of the least agricultural

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AgriCulture: Boarish Behavior

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. While spring is a time of new birth and a surging life force, sometimes it seems like farming during the season is at least as much about second takes, repairs,

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AgriCulture: Holy Cow!

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. The momentous news on the farm this week is that Roxie the cow gave birth to a sweet, petite heifer calf on Friday morning. Nearly a week earlier I had

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AgriCulture: Give Peas (and Favas) a Chance

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. It was only a few days away last week, as of this writing, from St. Patrick’s Day. No, I’m not Irish. In fact, I have always tried to

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AgriCulture: Needing That Buzz

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. There's nothing like a late season snow storm to put visions of the blossoming trees, flowers, and buzzing insects of spring in one's head. Peter began

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AgriCulture: Spring Awakening

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Spring, as they say, "is in the air." A few days ago was March 1st, St. David’s Day, one of the oldest harbinger’s of spring for

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AgriCulture: The High Price of Gas

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. There is considerable discomfort around the nation’s feedlots as industrial cattle growers and their lobbyists find themselves with an increasingly tarnished image. And predictably it is blowbback time as

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AgriCulture: Tea and Sympathy

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. In the last couple of weeks a few late lambs have arrived, and the most recent, the 27th of the season, born February 5, was initially struggling. His mother did

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AgriCulture: Waste Not, Etc.

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Here in the cozy warmth of our farm house, nicely insulated from what will turn out to be a major blizzard, I am thinking of frugality. Specifically my frugality. I

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AgriCulture: Hay Fever

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. In winter it sometimes seems to us that our main function is simply to serve as movers of a mountain of hay. Farmers who raise grazing animals often describe themselves

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