Some of you have already put your $40 deposit down on turkeys this year despite us not knowing what the price will be from our turkey farmer. Good news, even with record inflation she’s only gone up $0.25 per pound this year so our price is $8.75 per pound. As someone who buys two turkeys every year, I’m thankful for that!
The process will be the same as previous years, a $40 deposit to be paid in store. You tell us if you want a small, medium, or large turkey. Then we will receive the turkeys a few days before Thanksgiving, the day she tells us they are ready.
We will have a mad scramble to figure out where all these turkeys will fit because they are not, nor have they ever been frozen so we have limited space for them. That means we’ll be asking you to get here ASAP to pick up your bird.
The weights will be plus or minus what we are expecting. Some years, they are bigger, some years they are smaller. Welcome to small farm farming. Growth depends on the weather, if this hurricane hits us this weekend, if there is another one between now and Thanksgiving. Stuff like that.
Also as usual, we will be taking deposits until she cuts us off. We don’t know when that is. We just get the “no more turkeys” text at some point and that is it, we are done. We can take people on a waiting list as sometimes she figures she has a few extra after all the craziness, but that is all we can do.
And no, you can’t have my turkey. My wife would murder me. That girl loves her some turkey.
Jeanette has informed me that we are having a buy 5 lbs, get 1 lb free sale on hamburger this week. I think my lack of buying her a new freezer is the root cause. I’ve been promising one for months, but I keep getting bogged down in other stuff and not getting her a new freezer.
In my defense, the one we are replacing IS the new freezer, which has already had more repairs than the other freezers combined. And freezers are heavy. And my boy is off at college so I can’t use his muscle. And the sun was in my eyes… Yeah, ok. I need to get a new one. Till then, hamburger is on sale in the store this week. Come help us make some room in the freezers for this next cow.
Finally, till our first dairy farm shuts down, we are running TWO DAIRY FARMS at once!
So we have PLENTY of milk this week. Next week, dunno. But if you’ve ever wanted to freeze some milk for when we inevitably dry off, now is the time. You can get as much as you like when you come in this week.