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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

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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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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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