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AgriCulture: Sure Signs of Spring on the Farm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Luckily, the hours of daylight are getting more abundant, because the season of "not enough hours in the day" has exploded upon us. Along with the crocus, aconite,

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Apple Pie Bakery Café

"In a class by itself"

By Lisa Green

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Hancock Shaker Village: All This And Ice Cream Too?

They may have had odd views about how to keep the human race going (essentially: leave that messy task to earthbound wretches), but apart from that, the Shakers were an exemplary lot, and not just because of their famously prescient taste and high standards of craftsmanship.   They provided safe haven

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AgriCulture: A Japanese Farm & Garden Legacy in Florida

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Like so many of my graying peers, I have part time parent care duties these days.  Fortunately, my father has a girlfriend and two children besides me to take on

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A Deli in Disguise: The Great Barrington Bagel Co.

Who knew? If the Great Barrington Bagel Co. had hard salamis hanging from the ceiling over the counter, it would be immediately apparent that it's more than a bakery selling sandwiches and flavored cream cheeses. But it wasn't until I saw a sign posted for the

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Flatiron

Contemporary steakhouse gives surf and turf a creative twist

By Lisa Green

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AgriCulture: Putting Our Animals to Work

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: As  Mark and I have learned more and more about what livestock  require to flourish and (awful though it may sound) taste good, we have become increasingly aware that it

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Restaurants: High Steaks at Flatiron

By Kathryn Matthews When Flatiron Restaurant in Red Hook opened in August 2008, it was an instant hit, filling a void for red meat lovers in this part of northern Dutchess County.  The good news: after two-and-a-half years, this contemporary steakhouse has aged well. Craig Stafford and Jessica Stingo, the

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At the Farmer's Wife in Ancramdale, the Son-in-Law Also Rises

Even before Dorcas Sommerhoff opened The Farmer's Wife, her café and takeout shop in the heart of Ancramdale in 2002, she had spent more than a decade as the go-to caterer for savvy residents of Dutchess and Columbia Counties who craved earthy but sophisticated country cooking for small

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Soup & Sandwich Salvation! Amenia's Back in the Kitchen

Besides a post office and a library, every small town needs a breakfast and lunch spot where you can rub shoulders with the neighbors or pick up a homemade cup of soup or a hearty sandwich to eat on the run. For a long time, the Cozy Corner was the

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AgriCulture: Chicken is Not What It Used to Be

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: “A rose is a rose is a rose”, Gertrude Stein (left) once famously said. If she were alive today she would not, however, be able to say: "A chicken

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Hudson's First Indoor Market: It Might As Well Be Spring

It may take more than one swallow to make a spring, but one farmer's market seemed to do the trick for Hudsonites on Saturday, March 5.  It felt as if the entire town had turned out to celebrate this first-ever Indoor Spring Market held in the fellowship hall

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