www.diestelturkey.com/home.htm
Address:
22200 Lyons Bald Mountain Rd
Sonora, CA 95370
888-446-2253
Description: Free Range Turkeys fed low-fat diet of milled grains and soybeans; no hormones or growth stimulants.
Diestel Family Turkey Ranch, located in Sonora California, ships their turkeys all over the country to retail grocers. They sustainably farm, raise and feed their broad-breasted turkeys on the open range with a vegetarian diet free of hormones or growth stimulants. The grains and soybeans are milled on site. One brand they market is Heidi's Hens turkeys, which are Oregon Tilth certified and weigh between six and thirty pounds. Use their store locator to find a grocer near you that carries the Original, Heidi's Hen, Petit, and/or their American Heirloom Collection Diestel Family Turkey Ranch turkeys. If you want to read a review of all 'highly recommended' or 'recommended with reservations' turkeys, by a panel of 24 tasters from Cook's Illustrated, go to: http://www.cooksillustrated.com/images/document/tasting/ND07_Tasting-Turkey.pdf .
3*** for juries out, until I taste for myself.
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