Wild Turkey Farms

Friday, April 26, 2013

WTF NEWS- April 26, 2013

Happy Friday!!!

Sorry for the short newsletter again.

Davidson Farmers Market this Saturday 8am-noon.

Salisbury Farmers Market starts TOMORROW 8-Noon

WE"VE MOVED THIS YEAR- The market is at the Wren House parking lot across from the library so come see us.

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

Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte

Pure Pizza (at 7th St Market) - Charlotte

The Bradford Store- Davidson

Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain

Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury

300 East- Charlotte

Greeneman Farms @ 7th Street Market- Charlotte

The Wooden Vine- Charlotte

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

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

This is our first week of CSA...yeah!! One of the best things about the CSA is learning new things to do with the vegetables in your box. I have learned how to cook a lot of things that I had never heard of before much less knew how to cook. I will try to post at least 1 recipe every week for one of the items in your box. Some of these will be recipes that I have posted before but that just means they are tried & true and a WTF favorite.

This week we will focus on kale.

According to Wikipedia, kale is a vegetable similar to cabbage, with green or purple leaves, in which the central leaves do not form a head.

Kales can be classified by leaf type: curly leaved, plain leaved, rape kale, leaf & spear (a cross between curly & plain) & cavalo nero.

Kale is high in beta carotene, Vitamin K, Vitamin C and rich in calcium

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One of our favorite recipes for kale is kale chips. There are various recipes you can use but they are all basically the same recipe. You just need to adjust your cooking time based on the size of your kale leaves.

This recipe was taken from allrecipes.com

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BAKED KALE CHIPS

1 Bunch Kale

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

1 Teaspoon Seasoned Salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a non-insulated cookie sheet with parchment paper.

With a knife or kitchen shears carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale with a salad spinner. Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle with seasoning salt.

Bake until the edges brown but are not burnt, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Here are my suggestions:

Remember that the leaves will shrink so if you decide to use more salt than recommended they may be a little salty!

I use sea salt but experiment with different spices & find what you like.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Salisbury Farmer's Market Opens

I'm back.......

For some reason every time I try to log in to update it says my password is incorrect, then I lock myself out & have to reset. I have FINALLY been able to log in & post all of the old newsletter for March & April. Sorry for any inconvenience. The newsletters always post on Facebook if you miss them though!

Well, I can hardly believe that the Market starts back tomorrow. I am excited to see all of my customers & friends tomorrow in Salisbury but I'm going to miss having my Friday nights free from egg washing, packing orders, & everything else we do to prepare for the Markets.

The Davidson Farmer's Market has been going on for 2 weeks now. I have been there helping Lee out for the past 2 weeks. It was great to catch up with everyone there that I haven't seen in 3 years since I have been at the Salisbury Market.

Don't forget that the Salisbury Farmer's Market has moved to a temporary location. We are located in the former Wrenn House parking lot. The physical address is 115 S Jackson Street Salisbury, NC. When coming into the paring lot I will be on the left.

I hope to see you all tomorrow!!

WTF News- April 12, 2013

Happy Friday!!!

Sorry for the short newsletter.

Davidson Farmers Market this Saturday 8am-noon.

Salisbury Farmers Market starts TOMORROW 8-Noon

WE"VE MOVED THIS YEAR- The market is at the Wren House parking lot across from the library so come see us.

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

Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte

Pure Pizza (at 7th St Market) - Charlotte

The Bradford Store- Davidson

Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain

Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury

300 East- Charlotte

Greeneman Farms @ 7th Street Market- Charlotte

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

WTF News- April 12, 2013

Happy Friday!!!

Hard to believe another week has come and gone and April is nearly half gone. We put our first batch of chickens out on pasture Wednesday and they hopefully survived their first spring downpour last night.

Thanks again to everyone that fell for my pigfish story last week. It's always fun to catch you off guard from time to time. Have a great weekend.

Here's your Friday morning funny.

Don't forget that tax time is right around the corner. Let us help ease your pain with a special on our bulk breakfast sausages this weekend.

Bulk breakfast sausages are only $4/pack but you must ASK for the special since we may not have it advertised.

Summer Market is back at Davidson Farmers Market this Saturday 8am-noon. We're back every Saturday now!!!

If you can't make it to DFM just give us a call and come by the farm 704-202-9348

Salisbury Farmers Market starts up April 20th- The market will be at the Wren House parking lot across from the library so come see us.

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

Whiskey Warehouse- Charlotte

Pure Pizza (at 7th St Market) - Charlotte

The Bradford Store- Davidson

Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain

Salisbury Wine Shop- Salisbury

300 East- Charlotte

Greeneman Farms @ 7th Street Market- Charlotte

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

WTF News- April 5, 2013

Happy Friday!!!

We really have enjoyed the bit of warm weather that has been teasing us lately. The boys have been out on spring break this week and working really hard at helping around the farm so I decided to reward them with an afternoon fishing trip to our pond. I'd noticed that our boar Arnold has been spending quite some time bathing in the shallow end of the pond recently, even despite the cold weather we've had. It was almost as though something really had his attention but being busy with other things I really didn't pay it any mind and just wrote it up to having a stupid boar. Well after fishing for a couple hours we'd only managed a few small bream and a small bass. Then all of a sudden Rosty hooked something that fought like mad. It was really weird as each time it would get near the shore if would just dive right into the mud along the bank and root its way along. This was quite the fight for his little fishing rod and ended up taking several minutes to land. It finally got tired and gave up the fight and you can't imagine the surprise on our faces when we saw the fish up close for the first time (see pic below). So I ended up putting 2 & 2 together and now it's apparent why Arnold was so eager to go swimming despite the freezing temps. We weren't sure what it would be like but we took it home, found a good Paula Deen recipe, & fried it up for supper and man that was good- tasted allot like bacon for some reason......