Happy Thanksgiving

This past week the turkeys have been parading on the farm.  Sunday morning there were 14 of them.  I keep warning them of the upcoming holiday, but they must feel safe here. 

Turkey parade out our front door

Today David went to the store to buy our turkeys for the holiday.  If he bought an organic turkey, it would have been over $100!  Well, we have our own organic free-range turkeys right outside the door.  We even know the exact avocados and bugs they are eating.    Our neighbor, Cherry, feeds the wild fowl in the neighborhood each morning, but they also have the plentiful food found on the farms.  These turkeys can fly pretty well too. On the way home yesterday I saw one roosting high up on the telephone wires.  They often roost in Macadamia nut trees at night.

Turkey parade outside Mill house

Wednesday we are taking one of the store bought turkeys to the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Capt Cook where they are making a community Imu. (This link has a youtube video opening an Imu).  This is a traditional Hawaiian pit oven like you see at a luau where they cook a whole pig. for Kalua pig.  We bring our prepared turkey at 7:00 and pick it up that afternoon.  We will enjoy this turkey as our leftovers.

Proud turkey

The second turkey we will bring to the Outrigger Canoe Club's Imu (This link tells about Imus) on Thursday morning.  They will cook it and we will serve it at the club's Thanksgiving Day potluck dinner.  We'll do our regular Thursday morning paddle and put the turkey in the imu, then uncover it and all eat at 2:00pm.

It will be interesting to see how many wild turkeys are around the farm after Friday.