Our local, heritage Thanksgiving - Great Basin Basket and Wind Dancer Ranch

Usually, after Thanksgiving dinner is over and my thoughts turn to turkey sandwiches on white bread, I'm kind of relieved. We love to cook and have family and friends over, but it's a lot of work and requires the timing skills of a high wire acrobat. Whew! This year our dinner was more like an adventure thanks to Great Basin Basket, heritage turkeys from Wind Dancer Ranch, and our friends and family.

Check out what we received in the Thanksgiving CSA basket; easily enough for the big dinner and a few more. Look at all this!

All of it was delicious, fresh, and grown or made by people who live in our community.

The Brant family had a Royal Palm turkey ...



All the other families had Spanish Blacks...

(We took this picture the day we picked up our turkeys.)


Our 2007 Thanksgiving shopping was more like visiting friends than a chore. We met new people, all of them nice, outgoing, and committed to their land, the food they grow, and the people in their community. We spent two hours touring Wind Dancer Ranch, a working farm that had been abandoned for 17 years and after three years of hard work looks like paradise. "Shopping" doesn't get any better than this!