Paula Johnson, who raises heritage turkeys in Las Cruces, N.M., recently surveyed the heritage turkey population.
You can add all the extra value you want — raising heritage breed pigs on pasture with organic grain, all of which we do — and yet somehow the fact that we are doing this for meat, some of which we keep, most of which we trade or sell, makes the whole thing sound like a bad bargain.
Whether raising heritage livestock, combing the woods for exotic morsels or coaxing delicacies from the ground, these women forge new bonds between field and table, strengthening the connection between things we love to eat and the stewardship that makes them possible.
Indeed, shmeat seems the very antithesis of organically raised heritage breeds of meat that are consumers are currently clamoring for.
That might have encouraged customers to move away from factory farmed turkeys in favor of pricier -- but often more humanely raised -- heritage turkeys.
Two of the spans collapsed during stress testing in 1970 and demolition was proposed, but local fund raising and heritage grants allowed the pier to be dismantled for restoration and reassembled.
As anyone who has ever tried to raise funds for heritage projects will attest, it is always fiendishly difficult.
In February, Mr. Yu got his hands on some turkey that a farmer outside this city had raised from a heritage breed called broad-breasted bronze.
For a year, farms, encouraged by the educational organization Slow Food U.S.A., have been raising breeds of heritage turkeys, including Bourbon Red.
A farm in North Carolina is raising a French heritage breed of poultry that takes its name, cou nu ("naked neck"), from its naturally featherless neck.
