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AgriCulture: The Compleat Farmer, At Last

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark recounts the final stage of his embrace of farming. Picture this: a gray-haired lawyer in overalls on a soggy raw early March day, crawling at full speed for the third or fourth time

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Happy Trail: Hudson-Berkshire Beverage Trail to Launch in April

Christopher Matthews, a wine and spirits writer and educator, divides his time between Manhattan and Red Hook, Dutchess County. He has been the wine and spirits columnist for New York Law Journal Magazine since 2004, and has written about food and drink for Epicurious.com and the Culinary Institute of

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Warren Kitchen & Cutlery, A Cut Above

Kitchen supply stores in malls or on Main Streets are likely to have something for everyone—items that dazzle those who like to cook, those who like to entertain, and those in the market for something a little different to taste.   Warren Kitchen & Cutlery in Rhinebeck is not like

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AgriCulture: Can Value-Added Products Save the Small Farm?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Well, you heard about our “Virgin Birth” at the farm in last week’s blog. Yet another unforeseen consequence came our way last month. You may remember that a year or so

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The Locavore Way: Potatoes for Any Season & Any Reason

My husband, Tommy, who at times I affectionately call “Mr Potato Head,” kindled my passion for potatoes early in our 26 year marriage. Half Irish Catholic, half Irish Protestant, he grew up eating potatoes at every meal. These days, we often roast 5 pounds at a time for the two

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Berkshire Preserves Launches with a Tasting at Guido's

It all began, as so much food sleuthing does, with a memory.  "In 1969, I traveled to England for the first time," says Barbara Fields, sole proprietor of a new company Berkshire Preserves™, which officially launches this Thursday with a tasting at Guido's. "My then-husband

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AgriCulture: Animal Behavior 101 Styles of Mothering

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Since most of the "how to farm" animal care books we have consulted seem to treat animals as objects, or mere commodities, and thus ignore much of their behavior, we

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BOLA Granola: The Best in the Berkshires - And Beyond?

Everybody in our region knows someone who makes really great granola. Michele Miller’s husband, furniture maker Peter Murkett, was convinced that her granola was truly exceptional. Two years ago, he encouraged her to try packaging her very crunchy, not-too-sweet, savory blend of oats, almonds, brown sugar and pumpkin seeds.

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AgriCulture: The Making of a Farmer, Part 2

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: A couple of weeks ago, I described arriving at young adulthood in a state of profound alienation from the natural world.  How did I find my way to the realization (or is

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Let the Locavores Eat Cake!

Moist, sweet and laced with tart cranberries, this healthy cake staved off my winter blues by perfuming the house with its spices. It's a relative of pumpkin bread, but with the locavore edge —local butternut squash, eggs, butter, apple and regional cranberries—all widely available during the cold

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AgriCulture: Sheepish Grins and Other Barnyard Metaphors

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: Having a farm does revive one’s sense of metaphorical language.  While slopping the pigs I have sometimes, as I watched the disgusting activity at the trough, caught myself thinking, “You eat

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AgriCulture: From the Start, at Two With Nature

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: A few weeks back, Peter wrote about his lifelong passion for growing things, one which quite naturally led to an involvement in farming. When I was casting about for a topic to

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