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Unread 10-31-2007, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Wonder how much it costs to ship a Maine Farm Fresh Turkey (less than 40#!) to Texas.....

We're going to have to find someplace to get a turkey that hasn't been chemically altered before we will eat it. My mother absolutely refuses to let me and my family pass on meat on T-Day, so we have to at least buy a healthy one! I've always just shopped Whole Foods for antibiotic/growth hormone free meat when I have to have it, but I would imagine someone around here raises turkeys. I wonder if they would dress them as well? I'm NOT de-feathering any birds!!!! That goes WAYYYY beyond my comfort zone.

Thanks for the thought, guys!
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Maine
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I called WF and found that certified organic turkeys are going to be $2.99/lb this year. That's not bad.

They also carry what they call "All Natural" that are still free-range, antibiotic/hormone free raised on organic feed, but they're not "certified", and they're 2.49/lb.

What do you think would be the major difference in being certified and not? I know there are regulations for that stuff, but I have no idea what it is.

Somehow, the sight of turkeys running around on snowy ground just makes them look so much cleaner and healthier! The birds grown in Texas probably develop asthma from all the heat!!
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:11 AM
 
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Organic/free range is the way to go!
Good luck with that EL

We are trying tofu turkey for the first time this year. For some reason, I am not looking forward to this new experience. I will still cook a regular one for my husband
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:18 AM
 
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A tofu turkey!! On thanksgiving, Thats just wrong

on a different note I saw Snow yesterday Yay!!!! Right after i went online and bought my skiing tickets, cant wait
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:32 AM
 
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I have a flock of 18 wild turkeys that visit my back field. It's great to see them make a comeback (after having gone extinct or nearly so) and exist as one big family. Earlier this summer I would regularly see 4 birds - then a couple of weeks ago there was suddenly 18 - the grownups had decided to let the chicks come out of the woods and into the field, I guess.
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Tofurkey! I enjoy all the veggie meat selections, but I haven't tried the turkey. I don't even think I've seen that here.

And about the snow, Zed........I envy you!!! What better way to get into the holiday spirit? That's always hard for me on Thanksgiving when we wake up to 75-80 degrees and end up with the A/C going before lunchtime!! It stinks. I do remember much cooler Thanksgivings when I was little. Must be this imaginary global warming issue.......
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:41 AM
 
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What do you think would be the major difference in being certified and not? I know there are regulations for that stuff, but I have no idea what it is.
We fully intended to be 'certified'.

Then we were told that it takes three years of prep with annual inspections, we joined this Farmer's Market and one member told us that the market's annual farm inspection would count toward the 'Organic Certification', so we paid our fees.

Then a year later, we have learned that the old farmer who had told us that was mistaken.

One fee goes to the Farmer's Market for their annual inspection of our farm, to ensure that we are producing X Y and Z.

Then another fee goes to join the "Maine Organic Farmer's and Growers Organic Certifying Services LLC", and you must have three annual inspections from them [which each cost another fee], and you must call them to come and inspect every shipment of seed or feed that you receive, it must all be inspected, and everytime an inspector comes out to your farm, they charge another fee.

One of our friends produces artisan cheese. They just lost their 'Organic Certification', and they did not change anything, rather it seems a move by the Cheesemakers Guild Board Of Directors [B.O.D.] to remove one cheese-maker from being a vendor at the Common Grounds Fair to make room for a MOFGA B.O.D. to begin producing 'Organic' artisan cheeses and to run a booth at the fair.

It would appear that money and politics has infested the 'Organic' certifying system here.

It has been pointed out to us that 'natural' produce sells out at market just as well as does 'Organic'. So we will not be striving for the 'Certified Organic' label.

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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Maine
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I have a flock of 18 wild turkeys that visit my back field. It's great to see them make a comeback (after having gone extinct or nearly so) and exist as one big family. Earlier this summer I would regularly see 4 birds - then a couple of weeks ago there was suddenly 18 - the grownups had decided to let the chicks come out of the woods and into the field, I guess.
Wild, as in running loose, NOT raised by humans.......that reminds me of our "pumpkin patch" here. There were 1000 pumpkins delivered to the front lawn of the big church in the middle of town a few weeks ago. The elementary school loaded several bus loads of kids to take a field trip to "the pumpkin patch". I made sure my girls understood that the pumplins didn't really grow there. I hate all that fakey stuff!

I'll bet there are some "wild turkey" places here as well. Ha! Wild Turkey!! Isn't that a whiskey? I KNOW we'd have that here!!

Kinda like the fake snow Olivia brought home the other day......hey, maybe we could put THAT all over our yard! Actually, at our annual Santa Fest, they always bring in "snow" and have a little fenced off area where the kids can play in it and make snowmen and such. Never figured out how they make the stuff, but it does actually look and feel real.

I'll be so glad when we can quit living this artificial life and join you guys in the REAL wonderland!!
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Unread 10-31-2007, 08:44 AM
 
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It would appear that money and politics has infested the 'Organic' certifying system here.

It has been pointed out to us that 'natural' produce sells out at market just as well as does 'Organic'. So we will not be striving for the 'Certified Organic' label.

That's what I figured. I guess the extra .50cents/lb goes to help pay the certification fees for the producer. Not worth the effort, I agree. I'm sure there are producers who cheat and slip some not-so-healthy stuff through to the public, but what can you do but be as careful as you can.
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Unread 10-31-2007, 10:46 AM
 
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In the wild turkeys can be sexed by their droppings. When calling the turkey on roost the night before, we check under the tree. Male droppings are usually "J" shaped,while the hens are cork-screw shaped. Don't know if this is true in domestic turkeys or not.
We have many families in the area who raise their turkeys and my family is fortunate every Thanksgiving to enjoy a fresh gobbler.
Last years bird weighed 23 lbs. and cost me $30.00.

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