Thanksgiving Turkey Processing Class
Hands-on outdoor class teaching ethical whole-bird turkey processing; participants take home one prepared turkey for Thanksgiving.
Learn the entire process of raising turkeys for Thanksgiving! You will go home with a whole turkey, ready to be cooked up for the holiday.
Join Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival and Feather Hill Farm in this one of a kind class! In the end, you will go home with an entire turkey to cook up for Thanksgiving!
In this class, students will learn how to ethically and efficiently raise homestead farm turkeys. Students will learn the entire process of whole body processing* turkeys from raising, to defeathering, to cleaning, and all the way to cooking. We will learn various ways to prepare a thanksgiving turkey from preparing an entire bird, to making parted meals. If time allows, we will also be learning other crafts we can do with the bones, feet, and feathers.
Please note: 1 ticket is for 1 turkey, Multiple people are welcome to join to help through the process and learn together.
The turkeys we will be working with are free range, pastured, and a mix of wild fed and all-flock feed.
*The term "processing" refers to the fact that we will be learning the entire process of raising, all the way to having a whole turkey, ready to be cooked. What to bring: Dressed for the weather with clothes that you do not mind getting wet and dirty. Water, Lunch, Snacks Notebook/ Pen (optional) Cooler with ice to bring your turkey home. All ages welcome, however, minors must be accompanied by an adult.
