Holiday turkey

Holiday turkey / Updates — 3 Comments
5
Nov 09

Walmart selling turkey for 40 cents per lb.

This is in today’s Metro. You can buy a whole, 12 pound turkey for 40 cents per pound, or just under 5 bucks.

But wait! What’s more is that the store is “reducing prices” on canned vegetables, cranberry sauce, stuffing, dinner rolls, and a five pound bag of red potatoes PLUS a pumpkin cake in order to keep the cost of feeding eight people under $20.

The local turkeys we’ve sourced range in price from around $6/lb to $9.50/lb. So a 12 pound turkey at those rates (say, $8/lb) is more like $100. That’s a pretty massive discrepancy. Something is so wrong here.

Community / Holiday turkey / Meat — 2 Comments
3
Nov 09

Local turkeys

5680_102549148263_613558263_2154416_4790931_nT minus three weeks, aka, You need to get your hands on a local turkey now.

Here’s what we know.

Lionette’s Market is selling birds from Misty Knoll in New Haven, Vt. ($4.95/lb) They also have guinea hen, quail, patridge and duck.

Stillman’s is carrying small turkeys (10-15 lbs) for $65; medium turkeys (16-20 lbs) for $80; and large birds for $100 (21-25 lbs). Apparently even bigger birds are available on request. They were also raising Heritage turkeys for $100 a pop—but they’re sold out.

Here’s what we just learned:

Grace Note Organic Farm in Petersham, Mass., is selling birds too. You can either pick up a fresh (unfrozen) turkey right before Thanksgiving ($9.50/lb), or purchase a frozen turkey from the farm ($8.50/lb). Their Toms weigh around 14 lbs, and hens to weigh around 8 or 9 lbs. You’ve got to get to the farm, though. Call (978) 724-3127 or email them at: info@gracenotefarm.com.

And City Feed is taking orders for birds from Misty Knoll, which is pasture-raised but somehow also grain fed — $5.59/lb. And from Butterbrook Farm in Acton, Mass. These birds eat organic grain–$5.99/lb.

Natick Community Organic Farm has some turkeys, as well.

**You might also check out this page on the Mass Department of Agriculture site for a list of turkey farms around the state.