Wild Turkey Farms

Monday, October 8, 2012

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

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Last Call

LAST CALL TIME

This is the last call for Dinner on the Back Forty Farm Dinner

Sunday October 7 - 2nd Annual Farm Dinner on the Back Forty- The weather is looking perfect for Sunday afternoon so make plans to grab a jacket and join us for an evening of local drinks and great local food at Wild Turkey Farms.

Tickets are $65 each and will be available at the markets but we need an email letting us know you plan on coming.

Also this is the last week to sign up for the WTF/ North 40 Farms Fall CSA

10 Week CSA with weekly pick ups at Wild Turkey Farms or in Davidson (sorry but no farmers market pick ups)

WTF Full Meat Share (with or w/o veggie share) $25/week $250

North 40 Farm's Organic Vegetable Share- $15/ week $150

WTF Farmers Choice Meat Add On (w/ veggie share)- $11/week $110

WTF Free Range Egg Share (1 dz eggs / week) $4/week $40

Total $ _______

Email us if you are interested in participating and you can drop a check in the mail or pay at the farmers markets this Saturday

Wild Turkey Farms

PO Box 491

China Grove NC 28023

Lee, Domisty, Rosty, & Charlie

Wild Turkey Farms LLC

China Grove, NC

WTF CSA Information

heres the info on our csa

Our friends at North 40 Farms are growing the veggies at our farm. All of their stuff is grown organically just like we did.

The Meats and eggs are all WTF

10 weeks starting week of oct 9th

-vegetable share $15/week $150 ________

-small meat add on $11/week $110 ________

-egg add on $4/ week $40 ________

-full meat share $25/week $250 ________

Total $________

Checks can be mailed to

Wild Turkey Farms

PO Box 491

China Grove NC 28023

We are only offering 1 share size this time which will be comparable to the small shares from this spring.

Meat share or add on are all farmers choice but will include a variety of cuts of beef, pork, lamb, & chicken over the course of the CSA

Once again we can deliver if you have 6+ shares. we'll deliver either tuesday or thursday afternoons

Main thing i need to know soon is who wants what so i can get a count.

Thanks

Lee

Friday, September 28, 2012

Buthcher Guild Retreat 2012

I hardly know where to begin......

Since meeting the co-founders & many members of the Butcher's Guild back in August 2010 we have kept up with them thru Facebook, blogs, websites & emails.

When Lee saw that they were hosting The Butcher's Guild Retreat in San Francisco we knew we had to go!

For those of you who are saying 'What is the Butcher's Guild'?

This is what their website says:

The Butcher's Guild is a fraternity of meat professionals bound to create a support system for our industry.

We focus on education and camaraderie to achieve a communal goal: a network of successful, skilled, independent butchers all across the country! We also need courageous carnivorous consumers to insist on Good Meat!

We spent our mornings in workshops learning about branding, HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point), profitability & handling publicity. We had a lot of great speakers & we all learned a lot.

In the afternoons we all headed to the California Culinary Institute where Dr. Gregg Rentfrow (University of Kentucky) talked to us about Meat Science & Adam Tiberio demonstrated his skills using beef, pork & lamb. Marissa Guggiana, co-founder Butcher's guild

Beef demonstration

Adam Tiberio

Lamb demonstration

Tying techniques

Pork demonstration

Bruce Aidells- Sausage maker & Cook Book Writer

Old Oakland Farmer's Market

WTF News- September 28th

Wild Turkey Farms News- Sept 28

Got to say that San Francisco was AWESOME!!! Not only did we eat our way through San Francisco, Berkley, and Oakland but we got to see old friends and make many new ones from around the country. Go to our Facebook page and check out some of the pics when you get time.

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

That's right, if everything goes as planned I'll be reloading on our delicious grass fed beef and lamb as you are reading this email. I know you have all waited patiently for the past 2 months so THANK YOU. 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 back at Salisbury this week so email us your orders or come on out and see her!

Don't Forget-
Sunday October 7 - THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK To get your tickets for the WTF 2nd Annual Farm Dinner on the Back Forty- Join us for an evening of local drinks, local music, and great local food. Tickets are $65 each and will be available at the markets.

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

Pure Pizza (at 7th St Market) - Charlotte

The Bradford Store- Davidson

Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain

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

Monday, September 24, 2012

WTF News- September 21st

Wild Turkey Farms News- Sept 21

Some of you may remember from prior newsletters that two years ago Domisty and I got the chance to participate in Protein University at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. At this event some of the best whole animal chefs from around the country came in for 3 days of breaking down and preparing whole animals. From this event came the concept of The Butcher's Guild, a membership association that promotes craft butchery and purchasing locally raised animals from local farms. The Butcher's Guild movement has been gaining steam ever since and now has members all over the country. So it was only natural that when we found out they we're hosting a 2 day training in nearby San Francisco we decided to go!!! The agenda looks great with 2 very full days of classes with master butchers, sausage grinders, and salami makers teaching us the ends and out of the specialty meat business. Of course this crew has a knack for preparing some awesome food so I'm sure we're in for a real culinary treat as well. We hope to get some great ideas for future WTF products and possibly spread WTF stickers all over the west coast. Who knows what other crazy business ideas we might get out of this???????

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

Salisbury Farmers Market- WE WILL NOT BE AT SALISBURY THIS WEEKEND

Don't Forget-
Sunday October 7 - WTF 2nd Annual Farm Dinner on the Back Forty- Join us for an evening of local drinks, local music, and great local food. Tickets are $65 each and will be available at the markets.

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

Pure Pizza (at 7th St Market) - Charlotte

The Bradford Store- Davidson

Black Mountain Farmers Market- Black Mountain

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

Monday, September 17, 2012

Know Your Farms tour 2012

I THOUGHT THIS POSTED LAST WEEK BUT IT DIDN'T....SO HERE YOU GO!!

This is the 4th year that Wild Turkey Farms has participated in the Know Your Farms (KYF) farm tour. We enjoy having everyone come out & visit, see the farm &; listen to us talk about the farm.

What you may not realize is all the work that goes into getting ready for the farm tour. The week before was filled with the guys at the farm bush hogging to make sure there was a clear path to walk on, moving fences & animals around so they would be close enough to see (& they still hid under the trees out of the sun), moving equipment, and the list goes on......

We also worked both of our Farmer's Markets on Saturday so we had our usual Friday night getting ready for the Market party. We were up before dawn on Saturday to get everything ready for the Markets & the tour and I'm sure we still forgot some stuff.

Trust me Lee & I could not do this by ourselves.

Thanks to Robbie, Matt & Adam for all the help during the week cleaning up & all the help on Saturday.

Thanks to Ben, Courtney & Joe for working the Market trailer at Davidson & the Farm Tour.

Thanks to Ashley & Judy for selling WTF t-shirts & aprons. We almost sold completely out so we'll be placing another order soon.

Thanks to Becky for bringing the ice, helping answer questions & playing tour guide.

A great big THANK YOU to Lee because he always works so hard to make sure everything is ready!

We also had great volunteers with KYF helping us again this year.

And of course all of you that came out to visit THANK You!! We hope you had a great time & come back to visit again.

I always have great intentions of taking pictures but things always seem to happen.....like not charging my camera battery & only getting a few pictures........
Again thanks to all who helped make the KYF farm tour a success this year.

Lee getting the tractor in place.
This was a very popular place to get pictures made that day.

Charlie even wanted to get his picture made on the tractor!

These are not all of our volunteers that day but they were the ones who were there while my camera battery was working! Again thanks to ALL of our volunteers!!!