ST. PAUL — Erica Sawatzke, a sixth-generation turkey grower with Oakdale Farms in Douglas County, said her family used to travel the state to “show” turkeys in the ’30s when the business first came to ...
Finding a homegrown Thanksgiving turkey in Ramona during the 1930s was relatively easy. The town was known as the “Turkey Capital of the World” at that time, with a large turkey farming industry. But ...