Dave Perozzi | Wrong Direction Farm

Certified organic, pasture raised turkey drumstick shown roasted on a serving paper with a carving knife alongside turmeric rice, lime slices, and yogurt sauce.

Recipe: Tandoori Spice Roasted Turkey Drumstick with Turmeric Rice and Lime Yogurt Sauce

Leave a Comment / Recipes / By Dave Perozzi

This recipe was developed with our turkey drumsticks in mind. Turkey legs are mighty and meaty, and this tandoori-style treatment is a great fit. The complex interplay of spices and textures makes for an outstanding dinner. It’s great if you can buy whole spices and grind them yourself, but if not, natural food co-ops often […]

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Introducing Turkey Breakfast Sausage Patties

2 Comments / Recipes / By Dave Perozzi

This is something we’ve been working on for the last two months. We’re glad to be sharing our turkey breakfast sausage with you, made with our pasture raised ground turkey and 100% certified organic ingredients.

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Why Pasture Raised Chicken Is A Seasonal Food

2 Comments / Pasture Raised Poultry / By Dave Perozzi

We had another chilly week, and although spring is coming, we’re still snowbound here with just a few bare patches of brown grass showing through on the most windswept fields. I thought it might be a good time to talk about the seasonality of our pasture raised chicken, what pasture raised is all about, and

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Hitchhikers and Stowaways

2 Comments / Farm Life / By Dave Perozzi

“Uh, did you know you’ve got someone in the back of your truck?” I do have a history with hitchhikers, so stowaways probably shouldn’t surprise anyone as the next logical progression. But I never meant to become a trafficker. Much to the chagrin of people advising me toward caution, I’ve long made a practice of

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Recipe: Braised Grass Fed Beef Short Ribs with a Horseradish Gremolata

2 Comments / Grass Fed Beef, Recipes / By Dave Perozzi

We’re starting off a recipe series for this year all specially developed by our friend Katy Sparks using Wrong Direction Farm meats. And this weekend, as we’re digging out from a major snowstorm, it feels right to start with a hearty warm meal for a cold, snowy day: Braised Grass Fed Beef Short Ribs. What’s

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Frustrated by Machines, Encouraged by People

6 Comments / Farm Life / By Dave Perozzi

Whirr. Whurrrrr. Whhh. I could tell the tractor wasn’t going to start, and I knew that my day would now be spent with ratchets and sockets and multimeters. A simple run out back to feed the cattle wouldn’t be simple. We had freezing rain followed by a zero degree night, and I thought I had

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Bedding Bales: Preparing for a Snow Storm

Leave a Comment / Grass Fed Beef, Pasture Farming / By Dave Perozzi

With a forecasted big snow coming over the weekend, it was time to set out bedding for the cattle to give them a comfortable place to get through the weather. This video shows the way I select bales for bedding, and then later in the video I check back in after the storm passes to

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Herbicide Without End

2 Comments / Food Policy / By Dave Perozzi

I appreciated Bart Elmore’s recent writeup in The Conversation about the prevalence of herbicides in our food supply. The article covers the two big headliner herbicides Dicamba and Glyphosate, as well as a resurgence of other herbicides that had been sidelined for the last twenty years. The basic insight is that herbicide use is on

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Bringing the Grass to the Cows

8 Comments / Grass Fed Beef / By Dave Perozzi

Today we’re feeding the cattle bales of summer grass. I thought it might be interesting to show the process of feeding, and to look at the protective bale rings we use to prevent the cattle from trampling their valuable feed into the ground. Did you note the part of the video where I spliced in

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When the Grass Isn’t Growing, What Do Grass Fed Cattle Eat?

6 Comments / Grass Fed Beef / By Dave Perozzi

We often emphasize the importance of “grass fed and grass finished” as a standard for feeding our beef cattle. Grass fed cattle are eating the kind of food that suits them best, and this is a very different diet compared to conventional grain fed cattle. And I believe that the grass fed beef from those

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