Farmer’s Market Shopping Tips

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Locally grown food is fesher, tastes better, is more nutrious, and is usually more environmentally friendly.  Go visit your local Market! Here are a few Farmer’s Market Shopping Tips: Use the Market as a place to plan to your meal.  Shop the … Continue reading

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The Garden Year Round 2011

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The gardens are planted in early April. I know that you are supposed to wait until after Memorial Weekend… but we can’t wait that long! It feels good to get your hands back into the dirt after a long winter. … Continue reading

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Seasons of the Turkey

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When most people think of turkeys, they think of Fall.  Not here at Iowa Turkey Farm.  We have turkeys all year around! SPRING:                                   … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cherry Cake

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Cherry Chocolate Cake                   You will need: 2 Milk Chocolate Cake mixes Eggs Jar of cherries -with stems Almond Bark Milk Chocolate Chips Milk Chocolate Icing             … Continue reading

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What do turkeys do on the Farm?

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The entertainment value here at Iowa Turkey Farm is priceless.  A regular question I get asked is “What do turkeys do on the farm?”  I will add to this post occasionally as I gather more pictures of “what the turkeys do”.   … Continue reading

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What do we feed the Chickens?

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Here at Iowa Turkey Farm, we feed the chickens people food!  We also keep their feeders full of 17% protein feed.  We buy this feed at our local elevator by the 40# bag.               … Continue reading

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Breakfast with the Chickens

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Sometimes on Sunday evening I make a large pot of oatmeal.  Oatmeal with raisins and pecans!  Each morning I take a little oatmeal, add a little milk and warm it up for a hot, fast breakfast.  If there is any … Continue reading

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Eggs, Eggs and more Eggs

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They are all called Chickens…

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All girl chickens are called pullets before they are old enough to lay and then called a hen after they begin laying at about 5 months of age.  All boy chickens are called cockerels and when they begin crowing at … Continue reading

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Chickens & Speghetti

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We feed the chickens our leftovers sometimes daily and sometimes we save them for a few days to layer up a special dish for Saturday morning.  That way we can enjoy watching them eat their treats. Today we feed them leftover speghetti … Continue reading

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