WTF News- March 9th

Wild Turkey Farms News- March 9

I'm not sure if you've noticed it or not but spring is in the air (again)!!! Things have been shifting into high gear at the farm. We've gotten a couple hundred baby chicks in the brooder, little pigs here & there, baby bunnies hopping around, and baby lambs everywhere (even the neighbor's pasture). Last weekend we got in the garden and planted onions, greens, carrots, leeks, peas, and other good stuff for our spring CSA (see details below). Hopefully by the time this goes out the potatoes will be nestled in their rows. Come see us at the market or the farm & have a great weekend!


Don't forget to check out our new website www.wildturkeyfarms.com


Davidson Farmers Market- (9-Noon) We'll be at DFM again this weekend so come stock up. The freezers are restocked with pork, lamb, and OUR 100% GRASS FED BEEF!!!! Yes you heard that right- we are restocked on beef!!!

- load up on our beef snack sticks- 4 for $10

-Maple Breakfast Patties- $4/ pk

-Hotdogs and Brats for the grill!!!


CSA 2012- Once again we plan to offer a spring/ summer CSA for May-June. If you're interested in joining, send an email and we'll add you to the list for further information.
Want to start a workplace or neighborhood CSA? let us know and we'll deliver!

Charcuterie 101- Day of the Hog- Once again we are working with Chef Charles Catering to present our annual Charcuterie class March 31. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about how different cuts of pork make it from whole hog to the plate! For registration and info contact Chef Charles Catering at 704-423-8300


Don't forget to check out our Wild Turkey Farms Facebook page and "like" us to get the most up to date info.


We hope that you'll support some of the chefs & businesses that support us & other local farmers.
Customshop Restaurant- Charlotte
Chef Charles Catering - Charlotte/ DFM
300 East Restaurant- Charlotte
Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte
Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain
Know Your Farms Buying Club- Davidson/Charlotte
The Sweetest Thing- Salisbury
Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury
The Bread Riot- Salisbury



Thanks for your support, have a great weekend, and we'll see you at the market.

Lee, Domisty, Rosty, & Charlie
Wild Turkey Farms LLC
China Grove, NC

Health & Wellness Newsletter

In the past I have reposted the Health & Wellness Newsletter sent from our pediatrician's office. Here is another very interesting & informative newsletter.

If you wish to visit the Salisbury Pedriatric Associates Newsletter Archives click here.

Volume 2, Letter 10

February 27, 2012

I have had many requests to revisit this topic.

Meat! Grass fed/naturally fed versus grain fed and unnaturally fed cows.

The answer to this question exists. In the British J Nutrition in September 2010, Dr. Gary Egger published his data on the Differences in postprandial inflammatory responses to a 'modern' v. traditional meat meal: a preliminary study.

In 10 human subjects he compared the bodies immune inflammatory response after eating 100 grams of kangaroo meat versus Wagyu beef. Kangaroo is a surrogate marker of a historical naturally fed meat while the Wagyu beef is an unnaturally grain fed animal.

The results showed an immune inflammatory response 1 hour after eating the Wagyu beef but not after the kangaroo.

What does this mean for you? In simple terms, we are learning that when we mess with a natural food source we suffer the consequences of that choice. Our bodies are perceiving the grain fed meat to be abnormal from the immune system's perspective and reacting with inflammation. If you eat grain fed meat frequently, then you are more likely to develop a low level chronic inflammation. Depending on your genetic risks, this will worsen an inflammatory illness like coronary artery disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's, etc...

In Dr. Egger's words:

"kangaroo mimics the kind of wild meat that humans ate for thousands of years," explains Dr Gary Egger. "It's meat from lean animals that run around and eat grass. Wagyu on the other hand is relatively new to the food supply and an example of modern meat from modern animals that are less active and often fed on grain."Over the last 100 years, human immune systems have become increasingly over reactive to the environment. This over reaction is causing low level inflammation on a chronic scale. Historically, our systems are hard wired to acutely inflame to handle an infection or injury and then relax. Humans have not had historical experience with chronic stress and inflammation until the recent past.

This meat data is an example of another source of chronic stress to the immune system and the body.



My take home point today: Eat local, hormone free, grass fed meat!


In moderation and with a smile,

Dr. Magryta

WTF News- February 24

Wild Turkey Farms News- February 24

Don't forget to check out our website www.wildturkeyfarms.com


Davidson Farmers Market- (9-Noon) We'll be at DFM again this weekend so come stock up.

this weeks special- load up on our beef snack sticks- 4 for $10

Charcuterie 101- Day of the Hog- Once again we are working with Chef Charles Catering to present our annual Charcuterie class March 31. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about how different cuts of pork make it from whole hog to the plate! For registration and info contact Chef Charles Catering at 704-423-8300


Don't forget to check out our Wild Turkey Farms Facebook page and "like" us to get the most up to date info.


We hope that you'll support some of the chefs & businesses that support us & other local farmers.
Customshop Restaurant- Charlotte
Chef Charles Catering - Charlotte/ DFM
300 East Restaurant- Charlotte
Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte
Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain
Know Your Farms Buying Club- Davidson/Charlotte
The Sweetest Thing- Salisbury
Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury
The Bread Riot- Salisbury



Thanks for your support, have a great weekend, and we'll see you at the market.

Lee, Domisty, Rosty, & Charlie
Wild Turkey Farms LLC
China Grove, NC

How we spent our week-end

This week-end we began planting the garden.

This is what we started with...

Lee on the tractor

making our rows

Onions

Let the gardening begin!

WTF News- February 10, 2012

Wild Turkey Farms News- February 10

Will winter ever get here???? The trees are budding, flowers are popping out of the ground, and all of this since the first of Feb. I just hope this doesn't mean we're going to spend the first half of April covered in snow. Regardless of the weird weather patterns, this is one of my favorite times of year. We're somewhat rested up from our winter break, the days are noticeably longer, the garden has been plowed, seeds have been started in the greenhouse, and the pastures are full of lambs and pigs. Now if we can just get the pastures full of knee high grass & clover we'll be set, but that too will come in time.

One of our winter projects has been to update our website www.wildturkeyfarms.com (actually last winters project but we're finally getting it finished up) so keep check as we expect to launch it any day now.

Davidson Farmers Market (9am-noon)- The egg situation is getting much better as the days keep getting longer but eggs are still in limited supply this weekend so come early to load up.

Don't forget to check out our Wild Turkey Farms Facebook page and "like" us to get the most up to date info.


We hope that you'll support some of the chefs & businesses that support us & other local farmers.
Customshop Restaurant- Charlotte
Chef Charles Catering - Charlotte/ DFM
300 East Restaurant- Charlotte
Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte
Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain
Know Your Farms Buying Club- Davidson/Charlotte
The Sweetest Thing- Salisbury
Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury
The Bread Riot- Salisbury



Thanks for your support, have a great weekend, and we'll see you at the market.

Lee, Domisty, Rosty, & Charlie
Wild Turkey Farms LLC
China Grove, NC

The Farmer

Each day I go into the fields
to see what is growing
and what remains to be done.
It is always the same thing: nothing
is growing, everything needs to be done.
Plow, harrow, disc, water, pray
till my bones ache and hands rub
blood-raw with honest labor—
all that grows is the slow
intransigent intensity of need.
I have sown my seed on soil
guaranteed by poverty to fail.
But I don’t complain—except
to passersby who ask me why
I work such barren earth.
They would not understand me
if I stooped to lift a rock
and hold it like a child, or laughed,
or told them it is their poverty
I labor to relieve. For them,
I complain. A farmer of dreams
knows how to pretend. A farmer of dreams
knows what it means to be patient.
Each day I go into the fields.

W. D. Ehrhart, "The Farmer" from Beautiful Wreckage. Copyright © 1999 by W. D. Ehrhart. Source: Beautiful Wreckage (Adastra Press, 1999)

WTF News- January 27, 2012

Wild Turkey Farms News- Jan 27

Just a short newsletter this week before I run out to play in the mud. Thanks to everyone that has been supporting us through the winter by coming out to the winter market at DFM, eating at the restaurants that support us, and stopping by the farm. If this winter has been any indication, it's shaping up to be a good and busy year.

We have lots of things underway at the farm now. We have plans to expand our egg laying operation significantly and, increase numbers of pigs & chickens we raise. We are going to offer a spring/summer vegetable CSA again this year (details coming soon), we're also working with Chef Charles Catering to host a couple more Charcuterie classes in Feb & Mar, we are planning a couple farm tours, another farm dinner, and we have a new website that will launch soon. We've just expanded our grain handling capacity to accommodate this increase in pork and chickens so I guess you could say we're committed at this point. So to say we've been busy and getting busier may be an understatement.

We have a fresh batch of our WTF T-shirts in XXL, XL, L, & M for those of you that have been waiting patiently since last fall!!!

Davidson Farmers Market (9am-noon)- The egg situation is getting much better as the days keep getting longer but eggs are still in limited supply this weekend so come early to load up.

Don't forget to check out our Wild Turkey Farms Facebook page and "like" us to get the most up to date info.


We hope that you'll support some of the chefs & businesses that support us & other local farmers.
Customshop Restaurant- Charlotte
Chef Charles Catering - Charlotte/ DFM
300 East Restaurant- Charlotte
Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte
Carpe Diem Restaurant- Charlotte
Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain
Know Your Farms Buying Club- Davidson/Charlotte
The Sweetest Thing- Salisbury
Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury
Bread Riot Coop- Salisbury



Thanks for your support, have a great weekend, and we'll see you at the market.

Lee, Domisty, Rosty, & Charlie
Wild Turkey Farms LLC
China Grove, NC