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AgriCulture: Much Ado About Eggplant

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: Mark and I have had a busy few weeks here at Turkana Farms, struggling between showers and cloudbursts, sometimes in steady rains, to get our vegetable garden underway. Usually in

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AgriCulture: Peaceable Kingdom

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: We’re coming into summer’s longest days. In the early evening twilight, I sit alone in a state of blissful exhaustion on the screened porch, quietly enjoying a dinner

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AgriCulture: Garlic — From Cultivation to Revolution

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: My grandmother in Wales always insisted, with great disdain, that eating garlic was “vulgar,” which was in those days a generally held opinion in Britain. So finding myself at the

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AgriCulture: Making Book

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: From time to time over the past three years, Mark and I have gotten very kind encouragement from readers of our bulletin, the kindest remark being: “You should really write

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AgriCulture: The Rod, the Staff, and the Magic Wand

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: For a number of unfortunate reasons, I’ve heard the 23rd Psalm a great deal lately, most recently last Friday morning at a cousin’s funeral. I have nothing against

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AgriCulture: The Secret Language of Farms

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: We have discovered that the farm world has a language all its own. Before starting the farm more than 11 years ago we were not much further along in farm

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AgriCulture: The Farmer's Role in Feeding the Poor

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: I’m not usually a Wall Street Journal reader, but yesterday on the subway a nearby passenger’s paper caught my eye with an article entitled “From the Field to

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AgriCulture: The Off-Label Uses of Basil

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: One of the minor mysteries that nagged at me while living in Turkey years ago was the pots of dwarf bush basil I saw on the sills of the village

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AgriCulture: Leading a Lamb to Assisted Living

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: Since I wrote about the dilemma of what to do with an increasingly frail elderly ewe a few months ago, a number of people have asked me "What happened

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AgriCulture: Turns Out the Philanderer Also Farms, In a Way

In last Sunday's New York Times Magazine Andrew Goldman revisited Mark Sanford, former governor of South Carolina, whose political career and marriage went down in flames when it came to light that he was having an affair with an Argentinian "soul mate." Since Turkana Farms'

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AgriCulture: Blue Ribbon Okra, Plus Recipes

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: One of our best kept secrets is that our farm, Turkana Farms, won first prize, a beautiful blue ribbon with gold letters reading “First Premium,” for our okra entry at

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AgriCulture: The Pleasure Principle

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: On this extremely hot afternoon smack in the middle of a short (we hope) heat wave, I am very thankful not to be living in the Midwest, where the extremely

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