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AgriCulture: Ten Years Hence, There is Much to be Thankful For

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: This will be our tenth Thanksgiving at Turkana Farms. And we can be thankful that the house has, at last, been fully restored, the final room being the eighteenth-century basement kitchen

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Butternut Pie with Gingersnap Crust

Amy Cotler, the author of The Locavore Way: Discovering the Pleasures of Eating Fresh, Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing, $12.95) has an uncanny way of using fresh, local produce. Unable to find good cooking pumpkins and unwilling to use pumpkin from a can, she devised an alternative dessert pie

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AgriCulture: The Superior Long Island Cheese Pumpkin

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Although it's Friday the 13th, things seem relatively stable here on the farm. The coyotes have returned, but the calf is sticking close by his mama and has not

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Butternut Squash Risotto Two Ways

Is there any vegetable more plentiful at this time of year than butternut squash? Do you ever wonder why it seems every restaurant in our region has butternut squash soup on the menu? I am always thinking of new ways to use squash, and a few nights ago I made

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AgriCulture: One Man's Meat

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: As the days grow shorter, and evening chores must be started earlier before darkness settles in, everything begins to take on a different aura at the farm. Not only are the

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Spirits: At a Recent Tasting, A Local Cider Ruled!

In England, the word "cider" (and, in France, "cidre") describes a carbonated beverage containing alcohol—as little as 3% in France, as much as 8.5% in England (wine is usually between 11% and 14%). On this side of the Atlantic, a fermented cider is referred

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Berkshire Organics: Fresh Produce Plus, Delivered to Your Door

Fresh-picked, organic vegetables year 'round, from as nearby as the weather will allow, delivered to your door once a week. No, this is not some pie-in-the-sky fantasy; this is Berkshire Organics, a business founded in May 2008 by Aleisha Gibbons, now 30. Gibbons, who grew up in Berkshire County

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AgriCulture: Can The Family Farm Be Saved?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: After the bone chilling cold of a few weeks ago, we’ve rebounded and had some perfect autumn weather. Some of the fall crops, such as leeks, brussels sprouts and turnips,

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Roasted Cauliflower with Spiced Breadcrumbs

Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing), says her husband who doesn't like cauliflower loved this recipes. "I cut it into steak-like slabs, roasted until slightly brown to bring out its nutty flavor, then topped it

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Migliorelli Farm--a Heavensent for Hudson

In 1933, when Angelo Migliorelli emigrated from the Lazio region of Italy to New York City, he brought along some broccoli raab seeds, which he soon planted on land he acquired in the Bronx. He and his son Rocco farmed and peddled vegetables there until the mid-1960s, when Rocco was

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Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry

Mark Twain said cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education, but he might have been talking about bok choy, which I think of as cabbage that went to college in Asia. Baby Bok Choy, a variety of Chinese cabbage, offers eaters both silky mild greens with a subtle

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AgriCulture: The Changing Face of Farming

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: “Funny, they don’t look like farmers,” said one of the painters working on the barn across the street, clearly loud enough for me to hear, when we first moved in.

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