AgriCulture: Dirty Business

April 21, 2018 00:12:01
AgriCulture: Dirty Business
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AgriCulture: Dirty Business

Apr 21 2018 | 00:12:01

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Show Notes

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

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