Turkana Farms, LLC, is a small-scale producer of heritage breed livestock and a wide array of vegetables and berries on just over 39 acres in Germantown, New York. Under the stewardship of Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, the farm is dedicated to sustainable agriculture and eschews the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, growth enhancers, and antibiotics. Our approach can best be described as artisanal rather than industrial.
WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK? DRIVING TO THE CITY? ROOM FOR A LARGE LAMP IN A BOX? I (MARK) TOLD A FRIEND I WOULD BRING...
The farm feels like the world in microcosm. The world has Vladimir Putin. The barn has a half-castrated ram (the result of poor testicle-banding...
As part of my fall leek seeding project, I have tried to clear some trenches that I left fallow all season. That effort has...