In early May I made the long and pictureque journey to Salt Spring Island to visit Margaret Thomson of Windrush Farms.  Margaret is very involved in rare breeds of farm animals in Canada and Windrush Farms provides one of the homes of the Ridley Bronze Turkeys, a rare and endangered breed of turkey; the only true Canadian breed of turkey.  As part of Celista Springs Ranch's sustainable agriculture philosophy, it has become the home to a dozen of these turkeys in an effort to help support its numbers by creating a breeding flock as a source of heritage turkey genetics and for a quality heritage bird for market, in turn, supporting the continued genetics of this beautiful bird.

Look for more on this as we document this journey through web postings and gallery photos.

Anyone interested in more information about the Ridley Bronze heritage turkey are encouraged to visit Rare Breeds Canada or the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.

Please keep in touch with us as we hope to have both breeding stock and market birds available over the next year or two.  More to come shortly, including pictures of this fascinating barnyard creature...