Happy Thanksgiving from Washington DC!
My Turkey Family
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My Wordless Wednesday has a few words. I can’t help it. I write. That’s what I do. I love taking pictures, but I love captioning them too. So you’ll forgive me, right? Goodnight, Minnesota’s Presidential turkeys. They are tucked away, cozy in this beautiful and festive garden shed-turned-turkey-barn, at least…
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I’ve been working on a very special project this month and I finally get to share it with you! If you’ve read my blog before, then you know I work for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association. This fall, one of our members, who raises turkeys on his family farm in…
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As I have written before, I work for several poultry organizations – specifically, the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and its sister organization the Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council; the Chicken and Egg Association of Minnesota; and the Midwest Poultry Federation. Poultry Central. Right here in Minnesota! I wear many…
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Don’t you love this photo? Okay, okay, maybe not everyone loves a good turkey photo as much as I do. I’m a poultry nerd like that. But c’mon – what’s not to love about this straight on shot! I took it 5 or 6 years ago at a University of…
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Thanksgiving is so close now – just a day away, and I have hardly had time to think about blogging! That’s the curse of being the communications director for the nation’s largest turkey-producing state, I guess. I have tons of resources and recipes at my fingertips, but I’m too busy…
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Here’s my shocking admission today: Sometimes I have pork envy. (Bacon? Have you noticed recently that it’s everywhere?) Sometimes I have dairy envy. (Those cute cows plus the milk mustaches – who can compete?) Sometimes I even have just a little beef envy (in the form of a big, juicy…
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I was reminded this weekend that I am lucky to have an extended “family” who I also happen to work for as the communications director for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association (or MTGA for short). After 17 years with the organization, it only makes sense that I would get to…