I have found two options for buying a fresh, local, humanely raised turkey for your Thanksgiving meal. (If you know of others, please share.)
The first is Alexander Family Farm, just outside of Austin. They offer natural pastured Heritage and Broad Breasted White turkeys available for Thanksgiving. To order your turkey, email Kim Alexander at alexanderfamilyfarm@yahoo.com or call 512-247-4455. If found this interesting video, a documentary course project by Keeley Stenson, about the farm if you want to learn more about them and how they raise their poultry.
You can also order a fresh, local bird from Greenling, the organic delivery service. Greenling is getting their turkeys from Richardson Farms, a regular vendor at the Downtown, Triangle and Sunset Valley Farmers Markets. When I think of Richardson Farms, I always think of their pork and beef products and was delighted to learn that they also raise pastured poultry. If you haven't tried the Richardson products, I highly recommend them.
The local turkeys are going fast, so place your order today to make sure you aren't thawing a Butterball on Thanksgiving!
4 comments:
I have my order into Alexander Family Farm! It seems like they're swamped this year, which is great.
The guys at Richardson are so nice, and they're one of the few purveyors that often have large slabs of pork belly available at the market with no notice! They've saved our butts on more than one occasion.
Ouch, Vegas. Maybe you can order a Christmas turkey (or hey, a ham!) from one of these guys?
Ouch indeed. A Christmas Ham or Turkey is definitely going to be in order.
Glad I stumbled upon your blog! You wouldn't happen to know of any other local (or semi-local) places that raise turkeys, would you?
thanks!
Patrick, The only farms I know who are providing turkeys are Alexander & Richardson, but if I learn of another source, I will let you know.
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