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Gobbleblog '09: A 100 Mile Thanksgiving
A Holiday Experiment
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Entry #674947, added on 11-05-09 @ 9:55 pm EST
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Turkey? Check.Entry #674947
    So I saw an article in the local paper concerning a local farm that sells pasture raised turkeys.  They had never shown up on one of my online searches, but they were there, not ten miles from my house.  A few e-mails and some phone tag later, and I was talking to the girl I'll call turkey lady from here on.  What might have been a five minute phone call:    "How much?"

                                                "This much."

                                                "OK, the check is in the mail."  Became an hour and a half conversation between two slow food enthusiasts.  One, Turkey lady, who had taken the plunge five years earlier, giving up a career as a microbiologist to pursue something that "felt" important, and the other, a professional nurseryman who was just hearing the call and contemplating a big life change of his own.  Before long, I had been invited along with my wife, to come out and see the farm and all of it's workings...and to dinner, to meet a slew of other folks, friends of the turkey lady, who also were pursuing the dream of a liberated food industry.  It's thrilling, really, to be embraced so quickly into a movement that I just recently found existed.

    Without further adieu, I sent off my deposit for a heritage hen ($7 a pound for those who are keeping track).  Turkey lady, thrilled with the idea of my Thanksgiving experiment, promised that she would earmark a particularly un-commercial looking fowl for me to present to my guests.   

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