We rounded up 12 local farms and markets selling fresh Thanksgiving turkeys in New Hampshire.
If this is the year you want to create a Thanksgiving feast sourced with locally raised farm-fresh turkey, you’re in the right place. Here’s a list of a dozen purveyors supplying free-range gobblers and more.
Merrimack Valley
Location: 2 Courtland Street, Nashua. 603-882-0161.
Cost: $3.49 per pound.
Pickup: Tuesday before Thanksgiving
Details: Since 1899, this neighborhood market has been the go-to for Gate City residents for fresh holiday fare. The store also offers poultry stuffing for $15.99-$29.99 and turkey gravy for $8.49-$12.49.
Location: 1801 Hooksett Rd., Hookset. 603-485-3541.
Cost: $5.99 per pound.
Pickup: Starting the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Details: The farm also offers fresh pies, ready-to-cook vegetables, stuffing, and homemade dinner and cinnamon rolls.
Location: 774 High St., Candia. 603-483-5623
Cost: $7.99 to $9.99 per pound.
Pickup: Monday, November 25, 2024, between 4 and 6 p.m.
Details: The farm offers hormone- and antibiotic-free pasture-raised turkeys raised in “a stress-free and humane environment” with no added salt, oil, or artificial flavoring.
Seacoast
Location: 4 Little River Rd., Kingston. 603-706-3725
Cost: $7.50 per pound. $25 deposit.
Pickup: Tuesday and Wednesday, November 26 and 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Details: Snag a free-range turkey that is antibiotic, drug, and GMO-free.
TENDERCROP FARM at the RED BARN
Location: 123 Dover Point Rd., Dover. 603-740-4920.
Cost: $4.79 per pound.
Pickup: Monday, Nov. 25 through Wednesday, Nov. 27 by 6:30 p.m.
Details: Fresh antibiotic-and-hormone-free turkeys. The farm also offers its prepared fixings, including squash, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and homemade pies.
Location: 11 Old Stage Rd, Hampton. 603-944-6869
Cost: $6.99 a pound. A $20 deposit is required.
Pickup: Sunday, November 24 at the farm.
Details: This over 100-year-old farm offers all-natural, free-range, pasture-raised turkeys that are humanely processed. “Each year 500 to 700 broad-breasted white turkeys, roam freely on a rotated pasture and get nutritional feed,” according to owner Stever Hurd.
White Mountains
Location: 2679 East Conway Rd. Center Conway. 603-939-2412
Cost: $5.29 per pound. $50 deposit.
Pickup: Order before Nov. 15; pick up Nov. 26 or 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Details: Turkeys are fresh, never frozen, and have no added water, salt, or oils. Orders can be placed online or in-store.
Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee
Location: 294 Dartmouth College Highway, Lyme 603-795-4528
Cost: $6.99 a pound.
Pickup: Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Details: Call to order. “Don’t worry about waking me,” says Dan Bailey, who owns the farm with his wife Millie. Together, they raise 1,000 White Holland free-range turkeys each year. “I can’t sleep anyway.”
Lakes region
Location: 38 Oak Hill Rd., Sanbornton 603-259-6660
Cost: $5.50 a pound $20 deposit required.
Pickup: Call to find out pickup times.
Details: The farm raises White Turkeys that “spend their lives on our green pastures and hills rich in minerals and with plenty of sunshine and fresh New Hampshire air.” The farm doesn’t use hormones or antibiotics.
Location: 71Warren Rd., Barrington, 603-868-2001
Cost: $6.50 per pound. A $35 deposit is required.
Pickup: Starts Saturday, Nov. 23.
Details: The farm has pasture-raised and non-GMO Nicholas White Turkeys. According to its website, the farmers “believe that poultry should be raised the way nature intended: outside and eating a varied, nutritious diet.”
Monadnock
Location: 468 Center Road, Lyndeborough. 603-345-0860
Cost: $7.99 per pound, under 12 pounds, $8.99 a pound. A $25 deposit is required
Pickup: Call to find out pickup times
Details: The farm raises heritage breed (Narragansett), all-natural turkeys that are processed and vacuum-sealed. Call Wayne to reserve.
Location: 34 Cypress St., Keene. 603-355-8008
Cost: $3.49 – 5.29 per pound.
Pickup: Same-day pickup is available Nov. 25 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Nov. 26 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Nov. 27 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. No pre-orders are required.
Details: Once a year, the “Turkey Trailer” arrives at the co-op, offering three different kinds of fresh, antibiotic-free, vegetarian-grain-fed, non-GMO turkeys.
This article first appeared on Good Info News Wire and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
