Order Your Pasture-Raised Thanksgiving Turkey
Thanksgiving is three weeks from today, but there's still time to order a pasture-raised turkey!
In lieu of any local or regional options, this year we’re encouraging you to order a pastured turkey to be shipped directly from our friends, J & L Green Farm, in in Edinburg, Virginia.
Our link gets you $10 off and we earn a small affiliate commission, as well: https://www.jlgreenfarm.com/register?referral_code=aZOckGmfcaPJ. Note, this link will first have you create an account to see options and pricing as costs are automatically calculated based on your zip code.
We got to this point because unfortunately, there's still no local or even regional pastured turkey farmers that have any to wholesale to us.
We have been able to source pastured turkeys from a farm we know through regenerative agriculture circles through a local distributor the past several years, but that option isn’t available this year and Jordan and Laura of J & L Green Farm have had a banner year for their turkeys!
Jordan and Laura started their farm together in 2009 and raise farrow-to-finish pastured pork, grass-finished beef and pastured poultry, including chickens and turkeys. They have become leaders in the regenerative agriculture circles through their online community, FarmBuilder Entrepreneurs. Grant learned a lot and then developed a friendship with Jordan after attending their Farrow to Finish Pork School in the fall of 2018.
Since then, we’ve visited their farm several more times and stay in touch on all the trials and travails (and triumphs) of being first-generation regenerative farmers. Notice Grant helping move turkeys in one of the photos (from our visit in August 2022), one hitched a ride in the ATV!
We did look into getting a pallet down here and selling the turkeys directly, but the price point and the shipping costs and all, it just seemed like we may not move enough to commit to an entire pallet, so we landed on this option instead, where you can place an order to be shipped directly to you. Laura has been shipping their meats, including Thanksgiving turkeys, for years now, so she has all the details down to a science.
Hopefully in future years some of the Louisiana and Mississippi pastured chicken farmers will get into turkeys. There's been some trial batches, but they can be a hard species to raise in our climate (especially the baby poults) and there's some other barriers, as well.
Once again, here is the referral link to order your turkey and get $10 off.
Here is more information about the Greens and their farming story.
Here is more information about how they raise their pastured turkeys.
