Whole Heritage Turkey

This is it: The much-coveted, much-beloved Heritage Turkey!

For more than 20 Thanksgivings and counting, Heritage Foods has been committed to the raising and distribution of Frank Reese’s entire turkey flock, the oldest continuous breeding lines left in the United States with genetics traceable back to the 1830s. Frank’s Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas is the only remaining commercial Standardbred heritage poultry hatchery in the U.S. to meet these standards: Certified Standardbred, Pasture Raised, Free Ranging Flock, Vegetarian Fed, Naturally Mating, and Antibiotic Free from hatching to plate.

Frank has realized his goal of increasing the population counts of his cherished rare breeds thanks to his tireless work over the years promoting their importance to the food supply, and his hard labor in the breeding barns and hatchery. Frank has partnered with a growing network of dedicated farmers to raise his birds to his exacting standards. As always, Frank carefully selects all the breeders that he keeps back on his own farm for hatching the following year, thus these culturally important genetic lines continue.

Patrick Martins founded Heritage Foods in 2001 to preserve endangered species of livestock from extinction. These species were the foundation of our food supply for 5,000 years, yet they receive almost no attention. Today, Heritage Foods supports over fifty family farms that raise Heritage breeds – the very foundation of our agricultural history and gastronomic identity. These animals are raised humanely, outdoors, on pasture, using traditional farming techniques. The result is the world’s best-tasting, highest-quality meat – more marbled and boasting a far more profound taste and depth of flavor than what you’ll find at the supermarket. This is what meat used to taste like, and what it’s supposed to taste like, and with one bite you’ll understand the difference!