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AgriCulture: Talking Turkey, Part I

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Peter writes: At the risk of sounding like those obnoxious retailers who begin with Christmas promotions before Halloween, I’d like to talk about turkeys. This is largely prompted by our having begun letting our

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The Sweet William's Smell of Success

Sweet William's Bakery is no longer the worst-kept secret in Falls Village, CT. For the past two and a half years, Jason Young has baked cookies during the week for his wholesale accounts (including Guido's and the Berkshire Co-op Market) and officially opened only on Saturdays

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AgriCulture & Academia

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Mark writes: Peter and I are both refugees from the academic world (he actually taught -- I determined midway through graduate school that teaching, and the academic world, were not for me) so between us

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The New Ice Cream Cart on the Block

The other day, Great Barrington cheesemonger Matthew Rubiner—who a has sense of irony about foodie culture (though nobody is more serious about good food than he is)—sent out the following email to his customers, and we wanted to share it with you. Until recently we were ardent devotees

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Farming: The Mid-Life Crisis Career Option

Roberto Flores's face is a familiar one in the Berkshires. For 15 years, he owned and operated Seven Hills Inn, a 60 room mansion hotel next door to The Mount in Lenox, which he sold last spring. But he's a fresh face at the farmers'

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Year Two: Project Sprout Continues to Flourish

"Part of the job is eating on the job," says Sam Levin, snapping off and handing me a leaf of his favorite—an unfamiliar red "braising green" which, in its delicious raw form, has a spicey, wasabi-like taste. Exam week is coming up at Great Barrington&

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Of Samba-ing Sows, an Utter Boar, and Duck, Duck, Goose

Carmen, still waiting, with Vernon, the utter boar. Cigars are in order! At last, Miranda, one of our Tamworth/Ossabaw sows, has farrowed (‘given birth’ in pig farm lingo). Good thing too, as she looked ready to explode. The large size of the piglets suggests that she was late. She

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Think Pink: Now Is The Time To Drink Rosé

Whether he is selling a $10 bottle of wine or a $1 million house, Andrew Gates wants to see people fall in love. As both a real-estate broker at Sotheby's in Lakeville, CT, and a shopkeeper in Millerton, NY, he cultivates clients by paying attention to their specific

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The Guru of Indian Cooking Comes to Cornwall

In a world where the term "celebrity chef" is used to describe anyone who has ever cooked in front of a TV camera, Madhur Jaffrey is the real deal. Since publishing her first book, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (Knopf) in 1973, she has earned her celebrity by

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Farming: The 60% Solution

Here Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms laments never being able to get more than 60% of the farm chores done. Yet the photographs he and Peter Davies sent of Turkana as it appears right now belies his claim that a high degree of chaos (40% to be precise) prevails. Makes

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Café Les Baux

Authentic Southeastern France regional classics

By Lisa Green

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At Long Last, It's Strawberry Season Again

If you're a regular at the Lenox Farmers's Market or Hudson Farmers' Market, you've already had a taste of summer. For the last couple of weeks, Bonnie and Ron Samascott of Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook have been selling their incredibly juicy and sweet

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