Now is the time to start planning your holiday gatherings. Before you go out and buy a frozen store turkey, consider these local family farms by buying a local farm-fresh, pasture-raised turkey for Thanksgiving. Take the Local Thanksgiving Challenge, and support local farms and shops this Thanksgiving.

LOCAL FARM-FRESH TURKEY

Alwan + Sons Meat Company  {Peoria}    //     Call to reserve a fresh or frozen turkey! Order ASAP—Alwan + Sons sell out every year

Bittners Eureka Meat Locker  {Eureka}    //     Hickory smoked farm-fresh turkeys, frozen turkey, fresh farm-fresh turkeys, or BYOT (bring your own turkey) and Eureka Meat Locker will smoke it for you—orders begin November 1, 2023

Braker’s Market  {Eureka}   //   Hickory smoked, fully-cooked turkeys will be available to purchase along with smoked and spiral hams

Christ Orchard  {Elmwood}    //     Order your farm-fresh turkey ASAP— taking orders until all birds are reserved 

Elmwood Meat Products  {Elmwood}    //     Hickory smoked turkey breast available—preorders begin Oct 31, 2023

Little Blue’s Farm  {Morton}    //     To guarantee your Thanksgiving bird order ASAP and definitely by mid-November. If turkey isn’t on your menu, Little Blue’s Farm offers beef tenderloin and whole hams for your holiday feast too

Pottstown Meat + Deli  {Peoria}    //     Order ASAP for an Amish-raised, free-range turkey! Turkey breast and honey spiral hams are also available for your Thanksgiving feast

Prairie Creek Ranch  {Tremont}    //     Reserve your pastured turkey ASAP. These birds are raised on pasture, no antibiotics, no drugs, and GMO-Free

Raber Packing Co.  {West Peoria}    //     Frozen and smoked turkey available—orders begin November 1, 2023

Red River Farms  {Eureka}    //     Specializing in pasture-raised turkeys, Red River Farms has a first pay, first pick process. So, if your family needs a certain sized bird, it’s best to get the order in as soon as possible. Red River Farms will be taking orders until all 60 pasture-raised birds are reserved

Roth Turkey Farm  {Forrest}   //   Fresh (never frozen), all-natural, processed, federally-inspected turkeys from an all-vegetable diet, with nothing added or injected. Order your turkey early!! Roth Turkey Farm does sell out each year

Yordy Turkey Farm  {Morton}    //     Order ASAP! As of late September, Yordy Turkey Farm has 6,000 of their 10,000 birds left to reserve but they sell out every year! The Yordy team will try to accommodate walk-ins, but it won’t be a guarantee