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The Other Turkey: Not the Bird, the Country

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are back from Turkey. Well traveled and all-too-well fed, and pleased that the farm came through with only a few small disasters, and in very good order. We thank Beth

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Last Chance Sandwich: Eggplant and Arugula

To be a locavore is to live on the cutting edge. The end of the season for harvesting any given vegetable differs depending on where you live, and Amy Cotler, author of the forthcoming The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, has come up with

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Tomatillo Salsa: Sunshine In Your Freezer

Amy Cotler, the author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, which will be published next month, shares another one of her of-the-moment recipes: Now that the edges of the trees are tinged with color, I feel the push to put things up for

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Final Call for Corn-and-Tomato Soup

"I should have called this Last Chance Soup," says Amy Cotler, who's been living and cooking in the Berkshires for nearly two decades. The soup is not only another way to savor the last corn of the year but also a last chance to use cherry

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AgriCulture: a Vacation From or On the Farm?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are eagerly anticipating our impending vacation. It has been three years since we’ve been able to travel together for more than a 4-day weekend. With the anticipation comes no

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Raise a Glass To Food Writing! May It Long Endure

"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love." Long, long before there was a Julie and long before we

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9/11/09: Not Just Another Friday at the Farm

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Those of you who have spent any social time with us undoubtedly know how large the date of September 11 looms in our life story. We've undoubtedly told you

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Hot Stuff!! Chili Cook-off Seeks Entrants

Attention Tex-Mex lovers and habanera pepper cravers! Does the term ‘hot stuff” describe your chili? Every time you taste someone else's, do you find yourself thinking, "You call this chili?" If so, the Hudson Valley Chili Cook-Off could be your opportunity to finally get the recognition

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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

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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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