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We run an annual competition which invites our social media followers to nominate an Irish Charity in order to win a fabulous East Ferry Farm free Range Turkey or Goose plus €200 for the charity they nominated. This year the winning charity was the Midleton Hub nominated by Louise O’Brien.

Louise kindly decided to donate her prize Turkey to the charity and Yvonne and Robbie donated even more Turkeys to make the Midleton Hub’s community Christmas dinner really special this year.

The Midleton Hub’s mission is to provide a community-based environment where people can feel safe, welcome and create connections with others should they choose to do so, in a culture of openness, honesty and confidentiality in regard to wellbeing and mental health. Bunny O’Riordan founded the Hub to provide community resources that were not available to him following his son’s death from suicide. He firmly believes that the Midleton HUB can really help people who experience serious negative mental health tendencies like his son did, or people who are forced to experience the bereavement of a loved one due to suicide.

The vision is to provide individual and group therapy with bereavement support groups for those who are vulnerable in our community.

 

Follow us on Instagram an ad Facebook to find out about next year’s competition.

 

Rob and Yvonne wish all their customers health and happiness through these very difficult and uncertain times. As a small family run business,it’s business as usual and the turkeys and geese are happy grazing on the farm. Supply and quality of product as always will be priority. Business will be carried out as best as possible as previous years taking careful consideration to COVID 19 guidelines and precautions to maintain the welfare of all staff and customers.

In doing so we have had to make some changes as follows:

• We can only offer full birds, as we are not butchers ourselves, this year we are not going to be able to offer the service of bone and rolled, butterfly, crowns etc. Simply to reduce the handling of products, helping to eliminate any possible risk of exposure to Covid 19.
• To reduce waiting time on collections, we ask all orders be paid for at time of ordering. This is to eliminate handling of money use of payment facilities, reduce the need for more staff at collection point.
• Collection time from CGI Midleton on Wednesday 23rd December will be from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
• Collection times from 2 points in Dublin on 22nd December 2020 – Northside 3pm to 4pm and Southside 5.30pm to 6.30pm
• Collection from butchers on the 23rd December.

For collection outside the 23rd December, this is only possible by prior arrangement with Yvonne on 086 8547574.

Please have an order confirmation number to hand on collection.

If you order your Free Range Christmas Turkey or Goose from us, collect from us on 23rd December. We have extended collection hours for 2022:

Cgi Food Park,
Knockgriffin,
Midleton,
Cork
P25 A406

on 23rd December from 9am to 5pm.

Here is a google map to help you to find the location. Or

Click here to download print friendly directions

 

For our 2023 Christmas Competition you can win a Free Range Turkey or Goose (to the value of €85) plus €200 for the charity of your choice.
This year you can enter via either FACEBOOK or INSTAGRAM.

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The charity you nominate must be a genuine registered Irish charity.

To enter the competition you should comment on the original FACEBOOK or INSTAGRAM post, so that we can see your entry. In your comment you must tell us the name of the charity you would like us to donate €200 to on your behalf. Please also follow us on FACEBOOK and/or INSTAGRAM and share the competition.

Click here to see the original Facebook post

Winners have two options for collecting their prize:

• collect their bird from us in Midleton on 23rd December
• collect it from one of our partner butchers

No cash substitute can be given but if you purchase your East Ferry Farm Free Range Turkey or Goose from us we will refund you (maximum refund is €85)

The winner will be selected by a draw on 12th December 2023.
Only one entry per person will be entered in the draw.

This is the sixth year that we have run this competition. Charities nominated which won were Cork Penny Dinners (2018), Marymount Hospice (2019), Breakthrough Cancer Research (2020) and Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services (2021) and Focus Ireland (2022).

Please follow us on FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM and share the competition!

Make your Christmas extra special with a Free Range White or Bronze Turkey or Goose from East Ferry Farm.

We have a number of partner butchers  (shown below)  who are facilitating our customers by acting as a collection point for their bird.

Click here to order a bird to collect from a partner.

This is great news for customers. Of course we will be at CGI Food Park in Midleton on 23rd December where local customers can come to collect their bird direct from us. We cannot offer home delivery in 2022.

This is a list of delivery points for 2022 – to place an order now click here:

We pride ourselves on the quality of our free range turkeys and free range geese. We take every care to make sure that your bird gets to you in perfect condition whether you collect from our collection point in Midleton , if you collect the bird from one of our partner butchers or if your bird is delivered to your home.

The birds are individually sealed in food safe bags at the abattoir. Then immediately the Turkey’s sealed bag is placed in a second wrapping which contains a gas flush. The gas flush does not come in contact with the Turkey meat. The gas flush is an important element of the packaging as it not only helps to keeps the temperature correct, but it also protects the Turkey from damage, it’s in its own protective bubble.

The Turkey in its bubble is then kept in refrigerated storage. When the collection or dispatch day arrives the birds are placed in a protective cardboard box with ice-packs. We wrap up warm that day as we do it all within the cold storage area!

All birds dispatched will travel in a temperature controlled vehicle.

We advise that as soon as the package is opened the bird is refrigerated. So if you have not yet made room in your fridge, don’t open it up to “check it’s okay”, because the temperature will be disturbed. The packaging is designed to keep the free range turkeys and geese at the optimum storage temperature until 23rd December.

Remember that there are giblets wrapped up in a bag contained in the cavity

The giblets make wonderful stock for your Christmas gravy, but they will spoil your dinner if forgotten!

It was wonderful to see Roz’s praise for our Turkey on her blog in January.

Roz said:

My best ever turkey came this year from East Ferry Farm in Co Cork. Delivered by Fastway, it was also the most efficient operation. I didn’t have to ask for giblets, as they came with it (why don’t they always?), and they made a terrific gravy. The turkey broth afterwards is always a good indicator of a good bird, and it cooled to a thick, flavoursome jelly. I am booking next year’s (in case I am cooking again) which is as good as I can say.

The farm also does geese and chickens, so it’s worth seeking them out before next Christmas.

 

Click here to visit Roz Crowley’s Food Blog.