Episode 320 - Bountiful Birds   addthis
For many families a holiday meal wouldn’t be complete without a turkey on the family dinner table. That’s where Rob Litch comes in. Rob used to work on Wall Street but gave up the life of a stock broker, trading dollars for drumsticks. He and his uncle saw the potential of raising poultry in New Haven, Vermont.  His farm has some 20 thousand turkeys and 75 thousand chickens. As you might expect, when Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around, Rob and the whole family get very busy processing, packing and shipping out birds for holiday tables.

 

  

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The wild turkey is native to northern Mexico and the Eastern United States. It's believed that turkeys have been around for some ten million years. Turkeys were brought back to Europe by Spanish Explorers. In the 1700's, Turkeys in England were walked to market in herds. They wore "booties" to protect their feet.

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