Where to Find a Fresh Turkey in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown

Want to get beyond the Butterball this Thanksgiving? 

The editors at Epicurious did a turkey taste test so you wouldn't have to. And the good news is that one of the brands their judges preferred is available locally at Mrs. Green's, Whole Foods and Fairway. 

Fairway even offers a way to reserve the size turkey you want, online.  

Mrs. Green's is all over our region, with many stores in Westchester and one each in Putnam and Rockland counties. Too bad our Tarrytown Mrs. Greens is still under construction.

You can go to Whole Foods in Westchester or northern New Jersey for your choice of free-range, brined, organic or local turkeys.

Want to take it up yet another notch? Get one sourced from a nearby farm. You can even order your holiday veggies while you're at it.

Sleepy Hollow resident Barbara Carr is taking pre-orders for Thanksgiving turkeys and for CSA veggie share pickups the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The deadline to order a Raghoo Farm turkey, a new farm that she has sourced and has been buying chicken from, is Wednesday, Nov. 13.

In an email please specify your requested weight and when you will pick it up:

__ Turkeys range in size from 10 - 18 lbs. They will be fresh and cost $5/lb. When ordering give a 3 lb. weight range.

__ Specify whether you will pickup in Sleepy Hollow the Saturday or the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving. (If you want a turkey for any time in December, order it now. That turkey will be frozen.)

__ You may pay with cash or check at the time of pickup.

She notes that shoppers can also have fresh veggies delivered here in Sleepy Hollow the Sundays prior to Thanksgiving and Christmas. The veggies come from a family farm in Athens, NY. The CSA costs $30/pickup. You may join for one or both months. 

Examples of what you might get: potatoes, sweet potatoes, greenhouse lettuce, onions, Brussels sprouts, Winter squash, European cukes from the greenhouse, kale or Swiss chard or an Asian green. Please also let Carr know by Nov. 13 so she can get your veggies reserved. She needs payment in advance of the pickup. 

You may contact Carr by email at barbarajcarr@verizon.net.

Meanwhile watch this Flickr video from Stone Barns of the running of the turkeys. Hope it becomes an annual event. Though sorry, folks, they're sold out.