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AgriCulture: Turkana in Turkey, The Journey Continued

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter Davies writes from a quiet cove near Ucagiz, Turkey. We have left the Black Sea hazelnut and tea regions for the beautiful, rocky, and arid Mediterranean coast (no rain at all

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AgriCulture: A Turkana Farms Take on Turkish Terrain

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. We have escaped the farm and are on the loose on Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast in what was once the Byzantine Empire of the Comneni. A strange place

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AgriCulture: Tempus Fugit, But Don’t Rush It

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark  writes. Under siege.  Or so it seems. There are enough things that have to get accomplished on the farm this season, all simultaneously, that sometimes it seems your head could explode.

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AgriCulture: What Makes a Farm Sustainable? You Do.

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. “Sustainability,” a word that often comes up in regard to the new directions in farming,  has come to mind a few times recently. In particular I have wondered how sustainable

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AgriCulture: Mid-August Visit from William and Andrew

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. Hi all, Mark here, in a mood of appreciation for the winding down of summer. What I appreciate is not the moderation in temperature nor the shortening of the days.

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AgriCulture: The Climes They Are A-Changing

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Anyone who denies that we are experiencing extreme climate change should either speak to our farm animals (as I have demonstrated in past columns, our animals can talk) or, better

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AgriCulture: How the Drought Drives Food Prices

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. You can't call the rain abundant this summer, but at least in recent weeks we've gotten enough to keep us off the drought disaster area map

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AgriCulture: Creatures of Habit

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. I guess all of us are creatures of habit, some more than others. Mark is almost totally so. He would be content in the same place, doing the same exact

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AgriCulture: Small is Beautiful at Turkana Farms

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. It has turned into a tough summer for growing, although by contrast to regions further south and west, which have been beset by searing heat and devastating drought, we would

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AgriCulture: Celebrating Celeraic Way Ahead of Schedule

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. On the rare occasions I have found celeriac (also known as celery root or knob celery) in food stores, the cashier – looking down at what is a very large, ugly,

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AgriCulture: The Great Tomato Debate - Looks Versus Taste

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark's column was inspired by a recent story in The New York Times: No, I won't bore you with yet another analysis of Justice Roberts's decision

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AgriCulture: Some Like It Hot

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: It is Wednesday, an indoor day.  The heat is pushing at the window panes. The pigs are hardly interested in eating. And the geese are busier at their waterer than

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