The Great Allentown Fair now open through Labor Day!

Koch's Turkey Farm has a food stand at the Allentown Fair this week, through Labor Day. We're offering Turkey drums, Turkey BBQ, turkey cheesesteaks and other terrific turkey items for all to enjoy. Come join us on the fairgrounds, near the Beer Garden and Gate #8. Top music acts Rush, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Justin Beiber will perform at the Fair, in its 158th year. For more information, go to: http://www.allentownfairpa.org/

...then come on down and try one of our outstanding turkey cheesesteaks, with everything - best in show in my humble opinion!

AWI Food Show - York, PA

I met some great people at the York Fairgrounds this week while exhibiting during the semi-annual AWI Food Show. AWI is a regional meat, produce and grocery supplier in the mid-Atlantic to independent markets. While showing our natural turkey line, the Cranberry Turkey Burger was the star of the show and I stayed busy cooking for the attendees. Store owners and managers from NY, PA, MD and VA sampled the Koch's Turkey Farm product and several placed orders. Many of these stores are right here in our local area and it's nice to have them as customers - like the Valley Farm Market managers from Bethlehem, PA. (see pic)

Burgers, Drums and Mangoes

I ran into some heavy summer traffic on I-95 driving from PA down to North Carolina for this weeks Koch's Turkey demo's. It was well worth the 10 hour interstate effort as I had a quick sell-out of our Cranberry Turkey burgers in the Durham, NC Whole Foods Market on Friday.

For the rest of the day, I went to a tropical theme and sampled smoked turkey drums with sliced mango. I cut off pieces of the smoked drum, after heating them up in a skillet and added a chunk of warm mango to make tiny kabob bites. The sweet mango and smokey drums led to several sales of our terrific turkey drums.

If you're not busy, Saturday morning I'll be at the Winston-Salem WFM, see you there!

Sold out in Wayne, PA!

This week the great Cranberry Burger Demo show went to Wayne, PA to test the people's reaction to the latest tasty burger from Koch's Turkey Farm. It went very well, people were won over quickly by the subtle sweetness of the berry burger and a sell out was recorded in short order. It just shows you that people are willing to give a new product a chance, especially when it's healthy (low in sodium, calories and saturated fat), easy to prepare (7 minutes from the freezer in a fry pan), and tastes good! Food allergies and other ingredient issues are important for most people I meet at Whole Foods Markets and it's great to have a turkey burger that answers their concerns.

The Bronze Turkeys have landed!

A picture is worth a thousand words they say, so here you go...

These baby turkeys are crosses between bronze and white and we are growing them here at the farm for the Thanksgiving season. Antibiotic free, vegetarian fed and humanely raised, that's the Koch's Turkey Farm way.

Carolina on my mind...

This week, July 23, 24, 25 take me to the Tarheel state and the cities of Raleigh, Cary and Chapel Hill. Look for me in Whole Foods stores in those cities sampling the terrific Cranberry Turkey Burger from Koch's Turkey Farm.

Hey, it's only 450 miles from Tamaqua, PA, 'turkey central' and I already have plans to have lunch in Richmond, VA (with a potential customer) on the way. My hope is that Carolinians will respond in the same positive fashion that I've encountered in the mid-Atlantic states, so keep your fingers crossed for me and warm up your grill, here I come!

Philadelphia Force!

This weekends Cranberry Burger tasting takes me to the Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia's Callowhill area, not far from the Art Museum. On a very hot summer day, shoppers were in no hurry to rush through the air-conditioned store and enjoyed the many samples I handed out. One of the customers turned out the be the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, Chief Charles Ramsey (4 gold stars on his collar). I thanked the Chief for the work he and his officers do every day to protect that people of the city and asked him about an officer shot just the day before. He said the officer would be ok, but need a lot of rehab for his leg wound. I got a quik pic with the Chief and wished him and his officers well.

Tomorrow I'll be back in the store, so stop by and taste Koch's Turkey Farms outstanding, surprising, revolutionary Cranberry Turkey Burger - see you in the meat department!