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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Falmouth Farmer Brings Back Turkeys Popular in the Early 1900s

Elspeth Hay

Most modern commercial turkeys have white feathers. This makes for a cleaner looking carcass—after plucking, any pin feathers that are left are light colored, and therefore harder to see. But this week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay talks with a local farmer who's raising an older hybrid breed that has the broad breast of a modern turkey but the coloring of a wild turkey. She talks with Stan Ingram of Coonamessett Farm in Falmouth about the turkeys' lifestyle and diet, and how this can influence both the nutrients in the meat, and how you should cook it. 

You can learn more about the Broad Breasted Bronze turkeys Stan is raising and learn more about other heritage breeds through the American Livestock Conservancy website.

An avid locavore, Elspeth lives in Wellfleet and writes a blog about food. Elspeth is constantly exploring the Cape, Islands, and South Coast and all our farmer's markets to find out what's good, what's growing and what to do with it. Her Local Food Report airs Thursdays at 8:30 on Morning Edition and 5:45pm on All Things Considered, as well as Saturday mornings at 9:30.