Pasture raised turkey is a delicious source of protein year round.  Studies have shown that pasture raised turkey is the only other animal outside the ruminant family of animals (cow, sheep, goat) that is able to produce conjugated linoleic acid, CLA, from the grass it eats.  Please see the beef section for a more thorough discussion on the benefits of CLA.  This makes pasture raised turkey an excellent choice for healthy meat. 

It takes 16 weeks to grow out a turkey on pasture.  We usually start our Thanksgiving turkeys around the end of JULY!  They are raised out on our fresh pastures in bottomless pens until they are 16 weeks old. We feed them a custom mix of grain and organic mineral supplements to insure that you get the healthiest bird possible. They get lots of fresh country air, sunshine, and green grass.

Turkey is a delicious meat that can be made into many, many meals.  We generally roast our turkey and have a feast of roast turkey and all the fixin's.  We then have several dinners of sliced turkey after that.  When it seems one couldn't possibly get one more shred of meat off the carcass, we cook down the carcass to make a fabulous broth and there is always far more meat left on the bones than you would ever expect.  At that point, we usually get at least two dinners of turkey soup.  In our opinion, turkey soup beats chicken soup for flavor, hands down!  Remember, we have a very large family and can still get this kind of mileage out of a turkey.  I would say that one turkey could feed the bunch of us for nearly a week.  Now, that's value for your food dollar!

We raise the turkeys right here on the farm and then as a family, we process them at the appointed time.  This means that the turkey you would buy from us isn't trucked across the country in a smelly diesel semi-truck (with several hundred other birds) to get to a processing facility.  That means our turkey meat hasn't been exposed to highway and automobile pollutants or the stress of being transported.  That means our turkeys are happy until the very end.  You would be buying a healthier meat (if only for those reasons alone) and you would be supporting your local economy, not one from "who knows where??".