Chickens and Turkeys
Going into 2025, we are going to work with a processor at 4 scheduled dates to be able to process more poultry (both chickens and turkeys) if necessary as well as being able to offer hearts, livers, necks, feet and more! These dates are still to be determined so stay tuned. We will be taking orders starting in January of 2025 but you are welcome to reach out sooner.
Free Range, non-GMO Broiler/Fryer Chickens
Our meat chicken season runs from approximately May through October.
You can order by email or by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.
Chickens are $8 a pound and you will be able to pick them up at the farm on a processing day, or within 48 hours of that day, in 2025. We normally have chickens ready for you to pick up by around 4:30pm on each processing date. Note: if you pick up on the day of, the poultry will NOT be frozen. Deposit is $10 per chicken.
You are welcome to place an order at any time but we always sell out of chickens and we can only produce a limited number. We are doing our best to not further raise our prices, but if costs continue to increase we may have to revise our pricing in 2026. As always, we suggest asking what exactly you are eating when you consume cheap CAFO-raised grocery store chicken. The cost-savings are coming from someone and the two most likely sources are labor exploitation (which can result in less attention to safety) and the value you receive from your purchase. We believe in growing and buying as local and fresh as possible.
Free Range, non-GMO Big Breasted White Turkeys
In 2025, our turkey season will be focused solely on raising turkey for your Thanksgiving, Christmas and holiday season. They will be ready in the middle of November in 2025. You will notice below that much of our turkey program will sound very similar to our pastured chicken program description above.
You can order by email or by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.
Turkeys are $9 a pound and you will be able to pick them up at the farm on a processing day, or within 48 hours of that day, in 2025. We do not yet have the turkey processing day scheduled but should be near the end of the second week of November. We normally have turkeys ready for you to pick up by around 2:30pm on each processing date. Note: if you pick up on the day of, the poultry will NOT be frozen. Deposit is $50 per turkey.
You are welcome to place an order at any time but we always sell out of turkeys and we can only produce a limited number. We are doing our best to not further raise our prices, but if costs continue to increase we may have to revise our pricing in 2026. As always, we suggest asking what exactly you are eating when you consume cheap CAFO-raised grocery store turkey (remember the Butterball of your youth??). The cost-savings are coming from someone and the two most likely sources are labor exploitation (which can result in less attention to safety) and the value you receive from your purchase. Again, we prefer growing and buying local!
Pasture Raised Poultry is Best
We free-range our turkeys and chickens on pasture. All of our poultry are free-ranged during the day. At night they sleep safe from predators inside mobile Alumi-Coops. Every morning we open the coops and feed them a non-GMO feed mix outside the coops so that they all come out of the coops to forage and move around. We move the coops often daily, so that they can forage nearby while being able to go back inside to escape hawks, rain showers, or the afternoon sun. Raising the poultry outdoors and moving the coops regularly is the most important part of the system. It ensures the birds have access to fresh forage while also distributing their manure (one of our main sources of fertilizer) across the pasture which is in line with our commitment to regenerative agriculture. Many so-called “free range” corporate poultry operations have fixed coops which do not move, which basically means their poultry only have access to a prison yard devoid of any real forage. However, we have lost some chickens this way to aerial predators like hawks and bald eagles although our Alumi-Coops do a great job of keeping them safe.
Butcher Day – Pick up at the Farm – Both Chickens and Turkeys
You can pick up your whole chickens or turkeys fresh (unfrozen) from the farm when we bring them back from our poultry processor. If you want turkey feet, or giblets, these are available for an extra cleaning and processing charge. Just tell us how many you want when you place your order. Please note these may not be the feet, livers, necks, or other giblets from your turkey, but they will be from birds in the same batch.
Picking up fresh chickens and turkeys means you have the option of taking the whole (cleaned and dressed) birds home and breaking them down into smaller pieces before freezing them. If you want to cook a fresh turkey or chicken without freezing it first, you will need to let it rest for 48 hours in the refrigerator before cooking.
If interested, we invite you to fill out this form and we can contact you to collect additional information, answer questions and set up the invoice. Final cost will be determined on butcher day, priced per pound based on “dressed weight” (after feathers, feet, head and organs removed) with your deposit subtracted.