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The Pizza Farm Files: Recipes, Part II

Who better to ask how to cook vegetables than the people who grow them? That's why the clever designers at Winterhouse, who conceieved the Pizza Farm, produced these nifty recipe cards, which feature good eats from Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, MA, Good Dogs Farm in Ashley Falls,

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Nudel Opens in Lenox With Seasonally Inspired Food

Bjorn Somlo, chef and owner

By Lisa Green

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Agri-Culture: From Hardship to Bounty and Back Again

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: Are we approaching another food watershed? Did I say, “Food watershed?” Well, if there is such a thing, I think I have experienced a number of them. And it may be

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The Pizza Farm's Legacy: Recipes by Local Farmers

The creators of last weekend's one-day only Pizza Farm wanted to leave behind a permanent legacy so they asked all of the local farmers with whom they worked to provide them with recipes, and the graphic designers behind Pizza Farm produced two-sided, two-color recipe cards that were handed

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Pizza Farm: Food Designed for Social Change

On Saturday, August 29, at 4 p.m., the first ever Pizza Farm will open for business in Canaan, CT, under the pavillion in Lawrence Field at Routes 7 & 44. It will close two hours later after giving away 300 individual six-inch grilled pizzas made with local farm-fresh ingredients

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AgriCulture: Still Pondering "The Omnivore's Delusion"

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: When my sister sent me Blake Hurst’s article from “The American” last week, I thought it was an obscure little piece that you all would be unlikely to know about.

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The Omnivore's Delusion? Agri-Intellectuals? Excuse me?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: I'm fresh from reading “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals,” an article that seems to cry out for response. It appeared in the July 30, 2009 edition of

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Rhinebeck Farmer's Market Celebrates Its 15th Season

Rhinebeck has long laid claim to having the Hudson Valley’s largest farmers market, so it is always a big deal, but this Sunday, August 23, when it celebrates its 15th anniversary, it will be an even bigger one than usual. Festivities begin at 11 a.m. at the market’

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Canning, Pickling and Preserving: A Monthlong Workshop

Not since the days of Victory Gardens have these homely kitchen skills had such currency, thanks to the convergence, presumably, of the gardening craze, the locavore movement, and the economic meltdown. Even last summer, when we all still had robust 401Ks, classes in these three nearly-lost arts were sell outs.

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Agri-Culture: Talking Turkey, The Last Word

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Peter writes: I am sure you have all been on pins and needles, awaiting the final chapter on turkeys. After almost four hundred years of domestication and selective breeding, by 1900, the turkey had changed

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Olde Heritage Tavern

Where the locals go to have fun

By Lisa Green

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Jeremy Stanton Dreams Of A Locavore Butcher Shop

She's a veterinarian and he's a chef, and to watch them cook dinner together is to marvel at how two people whose work involves such different approaches to knives and animals can be so in sync in the kitchen. The newlyweds (who were married last September

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