"I like turkey in a big brown shoe"

Imagine our surprise when our partner in farming crime found this letter blowing around the Turkey pasture.  Good thing it made it to us so we could share it with all of you.

Farmer Dale Batty out with the Pasture Raised Turkeys! 

Dear partaker of turkey,

I have been enjoying my life out here in the green green grass, roaming free and eating little insects.  It is starting to get chilly now however, the grass is starting to die and I know my life is not meant to last long.  I know you would love me to wait until November, but I am getting big and it is getting cold.  I am ready to fulfill my final purpose in life.  I've had a good life.  I know that through my death you will enjoy a wonderful meal with family and friends, and I will be the center of attention.  I am so thankful that I am raised differently than most of my friends, who tell me life is not enjoyable.  They don't even get to go outside to see the big blue sky!  Thank you for supporting the friendly and healthy way I am raised.  I ask that before you eat, you take a little moment to give thanks for me...my life, my efforts to grow for you, and my farmer's efforts to raise me and end my life in the kindest way possible.  I am a curious little creature and I've included some pictures of my friends and I for your viewing pleasure.   Happy Thanksgiving.  Love,

Tom (your turkey)

A few thoughts of our own now.  This is a busy time of year for us.  We've been meeting a lot of new people at the farmer's markets, wrapping up our gardening, selling turkeys, and last but not least raising 2 cute little girls.

We've had one successful turkey pickup and will have at least 2 more.  Make sure to email us with your order of a locally raised, pastured, free-ranging, Thanksgiving loving, cold hating Turkey, and then tell your friends.  Oh, and don't forget to look up at those beautiful trees turning colors.  Love the fall!  We celebrate 7 years of marriage this month (obviously we weren't farming yet when we planned an October wedding).  We hope to see many of you soon at our house if we haven't seen you yet!