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AgriCulture: How to Fatten a Goose

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: I'm skating onto thin ice here (as befits such a warm May day) by even mentioning a highly controversial product:  foie gras.  I can readily imagine a deep split in

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AgriCulture: Separating the Bad Seeds from the Good

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Seeds have been very much on my mind of late. Largely, it would seem, because of the hours recently spent in the greenhouse painstakingly inserting them into peat pots and flats of

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Spring Pizza with the Toppings of the Moment

Asparagus and ramps have a natural affinity. "There's an expression that chefs use, What grows together goes together," explains Jim Gop, the in-house chef at Guido's Fresh Marketplace, who has been making this spring pizza for the past few weeks.  Although he grew up

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Restaurants: Spring Pickings at Mercato

You know the eating is good if Italians are in the house.

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AgriCulture: Non-contributing Members of Farm Society

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Perhaps it's advancing age, but sometimes these days I find myself focused on ideas or phrases I learned in the distant past.  Most recently, I've been dwelling on

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The Amazing Real Live Stars of the Farmers' Market

Locavorism begins with geography, but it's essentially about community: knowing, trusting and liking the people who produce your food.  Rory Chase and Peter Destler, the very likable Pine Plains natives who started The Amazing Real Live Food Co. two years ago, work the farmers market circuit—in Kingston,

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AgriCulture: May Day! Turkana Farms Goes to Pot

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Our turkey poults, Bourbon Reds, Spanish Blacks and Naragansetts, have arrived from the hatchery and are in the hayloft of the sheep barn under heat lamps until they feather out. What Peter

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A Forager's Favorite: Ramp Pesto

In the Berkshires and Hudson Valley, foraging for ramps has become a fetish of sort. I bumped into two fellow foragers gathering ramps two miles from my house. Even from my car, I could see the woods were lousy with ramps as well as the red flowers topping endangered trillium.

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AgriCulture: Tomatoes with Trepidation

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: While the livestock side of the farm is burgeoning (3 piglets, 2 calves, and our 18th lamb so far this season, as well as 125 turkey poults and 40 goslings arriving next

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AgriCulture: A Round Trip To and From the GreenHouse

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Well, sad to say, the value-added farm products described in our April 1 bulletin were only a wonderful fantasy. Alas, we at Turkana Farms have no chocolate flavored eggs, no alcoholic melons,

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Fresh: A Digestible Documentary About Food

Fresh, which screens this Sunday at the Moviehouse in Millerton as part of their free FilmWorks Forum series, is not just another "ain't it awful" documentary about the villainous food industry.  More upbeat and folksy than the recent Food Inc., Fresh, makes quick and fair-minded work

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New England Meets Mexico Maple Custard

A week in Oaxaca inspired me to mingle the maple season here with a classic Mexican dessert —  flan with a New England twist. Fried from my trip, I preheated the oven and laid out the ingredients. Then I remembered something — a fabulous custard recipe from Lindsey Shere’s Chez Panisse

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