Catch Up Time

Is it really December?

Wow!

Where did the year go?

This has been a challenging year in a lot of ways.  I have not kept up with updating the Facebook page, posting blogs & posting pictures & for that I am sorry.  I really had hopes of doing a better job with the website & other social media outlets.  There's always next year......

Well, turkeys have come & gone again this year.  As always, a big thank you to our customers new & old who continue to support us with buying holiday turkeys.  We had several new customers this year.

Here is an email I received after Thanksgiving:

Dear Menius Family,

Just wanted to let you know how delicious our turkey was at dinner!!! So moist & tender!!! The whole family enjoyed your turkey!! So looking forward to turkey sandwiches tomorrow!!!

Can we order a Christmas turkey now?!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving too!!

It always does us good to receive these emails & Facebook comments from you all.

It has also been a refreshing break to have a few Saturdays off from the Farmer's Market during the fall & winter months.

Davidson is operating on a every other Saturday schedule.  The Salisbury Market is open but we will not be there again until December 22, 2012 from 9 to noon.

We had a pleasure to take part in the 2nd Annual Carolina Meat Conference held in Bermuda Run, NC on Monday & Tuesday of this week.  Not only were we sponsors but Lee participated as a moderator & on a panel.

It is always nice to reconnect with farmer friends & meet new farmer friends.

The Keynote Speaker on Monday night was Temple Grandin.  She not only is an Animal Science Professor at Colorado State University, an author & creator of humane slaughter designs but she also has a personal story with autism

urr meal was provided by The Blind Pig from Asheville, NC.

Stay Tuned for the link to the pics from that event.

WTF News- November 30th

Wild Turkey Farms News- Nov 30

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  

After a busy summer, things are finally starting to quiet down a bit at the farm now that all of the turkeys and most of the chickens are gone for the season.  It's  the time of year that we enjoy a little bit of a break around the holidays before getting geared up for spring.  We're kicking around lots of new ideas for WTF next year so you can probably look for us to send out a survey to see how some of these ideas sound to you.

Davidson Farmers Market 9-11:20 (this Saturday is the Davidson Christmas Parade so we plan on cutting out a lil early to avoid the road closures)

No Salisbury Farmers Market this weekend.  We'll be back the weekend before Christmas

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

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- November 16th

Wild Turkey Farms News- Nov 16

Well another turkey season has come & gone- YEAH!!!  It's nearly 10pm now and I've been up since 4am so I'm going to keep this short & sweet.  See you all at the market this weekend

For those of you that ordered turkeys we'll see you sometime soon.  If you missed out on the turkeys check with us after 4pm today cause we may end up with a couple extras.  

We also restocked on pork chops, german & beer brats, bologna, & smoked bacon!!!!!

Thanksgiving specials- quantities are limited so please pre order if possible

- Lard- pure piggy goodness- The perfect baking companion for the best pie crust or make the perfect fried chicken

- Greens- Turnip, Mustard, Kale- all organically grown and available by the pound or the truck load.

- Sweet potatoes- We'll have some of our delicious WTF purple sweet potatoes available & some orange ones(not ours but from our neighbor) too if your not into cool purple tubers

Davidson Farmers Market 9-noon

Salisbury Farmers Market 9-noon- email us your order & we'll have it ready to pick 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

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

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

TURKEY TIME

Turkey Time is coming up next week.  I'd say THE EMAIL should be arriving  about Wednesday between 3-4pm.

For those that are new to the WTF turkey process, here's how it goes.

- we'll send out THE EMAIL which you will need to respond to (better be close by since we tend to sell out in a very short time)

- we'll fill our turkey list in the order we receive replies

- if you make the list we'll send a confirmation with details on what to do.  

Good Luck Turkey Hunting!!

this years' birds are $4.99/lb and should avg about 15lbs

WTF News- October 19th

Wild Turkey Farms News- Oct 19

Turkey Time is coming up next week.  I'd say THE EMAIL should be arriving  next weds between 3-4pm.  

For those that are new to the WTF turkey process, here's how it goes.

- we'll send out THE EMAIL which you will need to respond to (better be close by since we tend to sell out in a very short time)

- we'll fill our turkey list in the order we receive replies

- if you make the list we'll send a confirmation with details on what to do.  

Good Luck Turkey Hunting!!

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Davidson Farmers Market-   (8-noon) Come load up on yummy WTF meats and fresh free range eggs!!!   Sorry but no pre orders again this week.

DFM November & December Markets- 1st & 3rd saturdays 8-noon

Salisbury Farmers Market-  We will NOT be at Salisbury Tomorrow .
            -Domisty will be back on Oct 27

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

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

It's Thanksgiving Time at WTF!

Info on Thanksgiving Turkey's:

Be near your email on October 24th because the turkey email will be going out!!!!

Hard to believe that it's that time of year again but it is.  

As has been our tradition at WTF, you get first dibs on this year's turkeys since you got one last year.  Here are the details so look over and let us know if you plan to participate again this year

- we anticipate this years turkeys will be about 13-15lbs - (this year we didn't start any early birds so we don't expect to have any of the 18+lb birds at all)

- if you have a size request now is the time to let us know (ie bigger bird or smaller bird) and we'll do the best to match you up with what's available

- this year we plan to have birds available for pick up at the farmers markets on the Saturday before thanksgiving

-due to the limited number of birds we may have to limit everyone to 1 bird- if you would like a second bird please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate that request

- price is $4.99/lb which is up mainly due to a big feed cost increase this year

- let us know if you plan to get a turkey by replying back to this email  you can then mail a $25 deposit to: 

            Wild Turkey Farms 

            PO Box 491 

            China Grove NC 28034

or you can pay your deposit at the farmers markets this weekend

- in the name of full disclosure and transparency- we can not claim this year's birds as 100% antibiotic free.  at 2 weeks of age we had a spell of brooder pneumonia which claimed about 75 poults so we had to administer antibiotics for 3 days to stop the losses.  the withdrawal time prior to slaughter for the AB was about 2 weeks so by the time these are harvested they will have had over 7 times the required withdrawal period so they should be as clean as an AB free turkey

Thanks for your continued support

Lee & Domisty Menius

WTF News- October 5th

Wild Turkey Farms News- Oct 5

It looks as though fall is back (again) and we are looking forward to the cool down after this weekend. It'll be a bummer when it starts getting dark at 5:30 but for now the shorter days are a welcome change.  

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BEEF and LAMB and PORK - OH MY!!!!

Last week we restocked on our delicious grass fed beef and lambl.  Come on out to the market tomorrow and stock up!

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Davidson Farmers Market-   (8-noon) Come load up on yummy WTF meats and fresh free range eggs!!!  

Salisbury Farmers Market- Domisty will be at Salisbury this week so email us your orders or come on out and see her!


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

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