Lancaster — The Van Hoof family has been helping people serve tasty Thanksgiving dinners for 56 years now, by breeding and growing broad-breasted white turkeys.
Bob’s Turkey Farm, at 181 Old Common Road, was started in 1954 by Robert Van Hoof, and is definitely a family affair that includes his children: daughter Susan Miner runs the retail operation and does the bookkeeping while son Richard Van Hoof runs the breeding and raising of the turkeys. Another daughter, MaryBeth Blanchflower, runs the kitchen.
While the type of turkeys they offer have remained the same, the business has grown and evolved.
“Families aren’t as big they used to be,” said Susan Miner, who runs the retail portion of the business, and is a daughter of founder Robert Van Hoof. “Families are smaller and more than ever this year we’ve had people sizing down. A lot of people said it’s just going to be the four of us this year.”
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