If scouring the supermarket trying to find a turkey to serve on Thanksgiving is your usual, why not try a local spot this year? The farm fresh turkeys are fed, raised, and processed with care, compared to what you might find in the supermarket. Many of the farms also sell sides, pies, and salads making it easy to make the farm a one-stop shop for your Thanksgiving or holiday meal. And if you want extra sweets, stop at a bakery in NJ on your way home from the turkey farm. (featured photo credit: istock/Liliboas)

Turkey Farms In NJ

Abma’s Farm
Abma’s Farm prides itself on its homegrown products, raised with love and served fresh. For the holidays, you can pre-order online and then pick it up in the store. They have everything from appetizers, freshly harvested turkey, and smoked ham to traditional holiday meal items.
Locations in Hillsborough and Wyckoff

Ashley Farms
Ashley Farms is known for its fresh turkeys. The turkeys are raised on the farm and fed a specially formulated corn and soybean meal with vitamins throughout their lives. The turkeys live in huge, airy barns with plenty of room to roam around, and they are processed on-site in accordance with humane standards. The turkeys range from 14 to 45 pounds, and you can order them online or by contacting the farm.
25 Hillside Avenue, Flanders, NJ 07836

DiPaola Turkey Farms
Family-run since 1948, this turkey farm in NJ offers a variety of turkeys from 12 to 26 pounds and turkey breast. Their turkeys are raised without hormones or antibiotics and are fresh from farm to table. They also sell other products like Italian sweet and hot sausage and breakfast patties with maple syrup, sage, and sea salt.
891 Edinburg Road, Hamilton Township, NJ 08690

Goffle Road Poultry Farm
Goffle Road Poultry Farm prides itself on having traditional fresh turkey process where the birds are free-roaming, steroid-free, preservative-free, hormone-free, and free of animal by-products. Want a different taste? Try the slower=growing Capon, duck or chicken.
549 Goffle Road, Wyckoff, NJ 07481

Griggstown Farm
This farm raises all-natural, free-range heritage-breed turkeys the closest breed to the original birds that the Pilgrams feasted on. From October to March, you can grab their traditional white turkeys and free-range pheasants in the store. Since most of their turkeys go fast during Thanksgiving, make sure to order yours early.
484 Bunker Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540

Hinck Turkey Farm
Since 1938, the Jersey Shore farm has been family-owned and operated. Their turkeys are fed only the finest all-natural vegetarian feed and drink only filtered water. While you pick up your turkey, don’t miss out on their pies, dinner packages, salad platters, dessert salads, salads, sandwiches, and sides to add to your holiday meal.
1414 Atlantic Avenue, Manasquan, NJ 08736

Lee Turkey Farm
For over 80 years, Lee Turkey Farm has produced turkeys of the finest quality. Fresh turkeys are only available for Thanksgiving. They typically take 1,000 orders beginning October 1, and more turkeys are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. The turkeys are raised without antibiotics or growth hormones.
201 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor, NJ 08520

Lima Family Farms
With over 400 acres of livestock and grazing management, you will be able to find a turkey for Thanksgiving at this Central Jersey farm. When it’s turkey time, deposits can be taken in-store or over the phone. They also offer fresh produce.
826 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844

Spring Valley Turkey Farm
If you are looking for a cage-free and range-free healthy turkey raised without additives, preservatives, or hormones, Spring Valley Turkey Farm may be the place for you this holiday season. You can reserve your turkey now.
402 Spring Valley Road, Old Bridge, NJ 08857

The Farm at Glenwood Mountain 
A decade ago, a husband-and-wife team purchased a 180-acre farm that had been abandoned for over 30 years. They transformed it into a USDA-certified organic farm offering pasture-raised turkeys and a one-stop shopping experience for the holidays, featuring homemade stock, gravy, cranberry-apple compote, butternut squash soup, and more.
1801 County Road 565, Sussex, NJ 07461

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