For Heidi Diestel, carving a golden-roasted turkey is not solely reserved for Thanksgiving Day.
“I never get tired of eating turkey because the way we raise it is healthy and has a lot of flavor,” she said.
A fourth-generation farmer, Diestel said her great uncle, Ernest, farmed turkeys in the 1920s and taught her grandfather the “family secrets.”
Her grandfather started Diestel Family Ranch in Sonora, California, in 1949, and the family began pasture-raising turkeys in 2010.
They use regenerative farming to raise the birds—a method that harkens back to a more traditional use of the land—eschewing chemicals in favour of actively nourishing the soil….