Corporate Gifts

Corporate Gifts - Holiday Turkey

Whether it’s a Ferndale Market free-range turkey or a local foods gift box, we can help ensure your employees feel appreciated.

Thanksgiving Reservations

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Reserve your fresh turkey to be picked up at our on-farm market beginning Oct 19th. Can’t make it to our market? Ship a frozen turkey to your doorstep.

Ferndale Market

A word art free range turkey. Turkey without shortcuts, 1939

Turkey without shortcuts

Since 1939

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A word art free range turkey. Turkey without shortcuts, 1939

Turkey without shortcuts

Since 1939

Browse the Shop

Welcome to our third-generation farm.

Ferndale Market

We treat our turkeys like they’re part of the family.
Because since 1939, they have been.

We treat our turkeys like they’re part of the family. Because since 1939, they have been.

When our founder Dale Peterson and his wife Fern began raising turkeys on our family farm in Cannon Falls, they did it the only way they knew how – without shortcuts. Eighty years later, that philosophy hasn’t changed.

Our Story
free range
Free-Range
antibiotic free
Raised Without Antibiotics
family farm
Independent Family Farm
naturally processed
Naturally Processed
chemical nitrate free
Chemical Nitrate Free
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Local
Learn about our raising practices
Free Range Turkey

Free Range

Rasied Without Antibiotics

Raised Without Antibiotics

family farm

Independent Family Farm

naturally processed

Naturally Processed

Chemical Nitrate Free

Chemical Nitrate Free

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Local

Learn about our raising practices

Our Products

We believe you’ll taste the difference.

Our turkey products are processed naturally – with simple ingredients and no additives.

Our Turkey
  • Free Range Turkey Products
  • Ferndale Market, On-Farm Grocery Store

Our Market

Discover the best in local foods!

We partner with over 100 independent farmers and food makers to stock our shelves with the highest-quality sustainable and organic foods.

Our Market

On-Farm Events

Experience family fun at the farm!

Join us on the farm for family friendly events!

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  • Turkey Fest Event - Ferndale Market
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Our Products

Our turkey products; fresh, frozen, and bulk turkey ready for retail, corporate gifts and Thanksgiving!
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Locator

User our locator to find where you can buy turkey near you.
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Events

Join us at the farm for family friendly events throughout the year!
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Our Market

At Ferndale Markets on-farm grocery store you will find our fresh and frozen turkey along with many other local foods!

Join The Flock!

Have you spotted our updated labels? Over the course of the year, we've been giving our turkey product labels a refresh. (If you can believe it, some of them haven't been updated in 18 years!) Here you can see our previous turkey stick labels (on the left) next to our new ones (on the right). You may see both versions for a while as we continue to work through stock.
A behind-the-scenes look at our custom candles! 🕯️ Some of the Ferndale team spent the day at @taylorandco.apothecary , helping make our exclusive On Range and Home for the Holidays candles. We had so much fun seeing how they’re made and getting to be a part of the process. A big thank you to Taylor and her team for inviting us to join them for the day. We had a blast!
The leaves are changing, and our market is ready for fall! 🍂 We’re stocked with plenty of fall finds, including locally grown produce, cozy books, apple cider, maple syrup, and more. Stop by and see what’s new for the season!
"We’ve come through a stretch with way too much news about the safety of our food supply. We’ve learned about new parasites and a murky global supply chain. A wise person once told me that big businesses have bigger problems due to bigger scale, and this seems like a reminder of that truism. I hope it goes without saying that there’s nothing we take more seriously than the quality of our Ferndale turkey products, and the local foods we carefully select for our market. We’re built on shorter, local supply chains with lots of transparency.⁠ ⁠ Over the past decades of direct-marketing our turkey, we’ve learned a lot. One of our biggest successes was setting-up full traceability across all our turkey products, so we can link each package back to a flock from the farm, and track it forward to a retail partner’s cooler. Thankfully, we’ve never had reason to do more than our annual system test, but I’m proud that we can match every box in our inventory to its lot batch with the click of a button.⁠ ⁠ It’s probably no surprise that our traceability is made vastly easier since we raise 100% of the turkey in our Ferndale label, either on our own farm or a trusted local partner farm. It’s commonplace for the big meat brands to purchase outside commodity meats for their products, but we own all our turkeys from start-to-finish, and craft all our finished products at independent, local processors. Transparency is a lot easier when it doesn’t include anonymous middlemen, and we know all our partners personally.⁠ ⁠ I’ve spent years thinking about the many positive impacts of a local, sustainable food system. One that’s better for farmers and rural economies. Better for our environment. Crafting better food and healthier communities. But we should also celebrate that local food systems create shorter, more transparent supply chains. In today’s world, that’s a worthy attribute to add to the list."⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #knowyourfarmer #localfoodsystems #localfood #eatlocal #supportlocalfarmers
We had a blast hosting the Midwest and Mountain Region #FarmtoSchool Summit on our farm today! We're grateful for the work they do to deliver nutritious meals to students while supporting local farmers. #farmtoschool
We're four weeks away from fresh turkey reservations opening!⁠ 🦃⁠ ⁠ Mark your calendars for October 19th, when you can reserve your fresh turkey for pickup at our on-farm market during our annual TurkeyFest celebration (November 20-25).⁠ ⁠ Be sure to visit our website and subscribe to our newsletter. On that day, we'll send you an email with a direct link to the reservation form.⁠
Have you ever wondered what we mean when we say our turkeys are antibiotic-free? ⁠Our Raised Without Antibiotics claim starts at the hatchery, where the eggs and baby turkeys are handled to our standards and never administered antibiotics or growth promotants. We don’t think there’s any substitute for excellent care and husbandry, and we take pride in creating an environment that maintains turkey health without medications.⁠
Great news—more apples are here! 🍎⁠ ⁠ We're excited to share that we’re now carrying Honeycrisp apples, grown in Northfield by @firesideorchard. You'll also find other favorites, including Zestar, First Kiss, and SweeTango. ⁠
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