Turkey Habitat and Forage

I found this on what they eat. It is extremely informative if you read through the whole thing.  
https://www.realtree.com/turkey-hunting/galleries/what-do-wild-turkeys-eat

Turkeys like woodland-field borders. So their habitat should have an irregular border between a field of grasses and sedges, and a food forest.

And why a food forest? well, they eat fallen fruit, nuts, and insects they find in the food forest. This is integrated into my Forage Forest System. This consideration is fundamental to that system.

This is it basically, it's simple. Turkeys eat nuts, seeds, bugs, small vertebrates, grass, buds, sedges, and fruits. If you set up their habitat with roosts they can reach, and food they like, and plenty of cover; you can leave them to their own devices in the Forage Forest system without feed cost or further intervention on your part.  No need to build a shelter unless you're outside of their native range.

Because they won't be used to seeing you much, you will have to bow hunt them to harvest. But they will taste wild too. Recommended breeds are heritage breeds with recent wild admixture such as narragansett and standard bronze.

We live in an area where I have been told that Theodore Roosevelt hunted for turkeys.

When we moved here there were lots of turkeys.  In fact, I had great fun watching the behavior and traits.  

The dominant male, I assume would stand guard while the hens looked about for seeds, etc.

We catch them on our game camera eating corn.

We don't hunt though we have neighbors in the area that do, though I don't know if they hunt turkeys or just hunt only deer.

Do you have wild turkeys in your area?

Do you feel that you will be able to attract them to your Food Forest or your Forage Food system?

Anne Miller wrote:Do you have wild turkeys in your area?

Do you feel that you will be able to attract them to your Food Forest or your Forage Food system?

There are wild turkeys here. But I plan to raise domestic breeds in a way that they go feral in a fenced area.

My Forage Forest System is a type of biodiverse agriculture that promotes a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and diet, while taking less space to do it. So you don't need 300 acres to forage, because you stack the deck in your favor. The property perimeter fence excludes competition for resources with natural predators and deer. It's like a food forest, but with a lot more kinds of resources than just food, and the animal systems are layered into it.

I'm writing a book on the theory and implementation. Part 1 is theory and implementation written during the development phase (It's a work in progress), and Part 2 will be written while I install my second iteration using what I learned from the first. Then I'll publish it. However, you guys get to see the development process for the first version of the system. In my second iteration, I plan to add a field system for cattle because I'm going to sell the land I'm currently on and buy a much larger piece with both woodlands and grasslands and probably a good size pond. So the second version will include larger stock and mixed vegetation types and zones. Our zone system is different than standard permaculture. It's not centered on the home. It's centered on established paths. Things you want are closer to paths and the further from the path you go, the more wild things get. It's a gradient of feral domesticated plants to wild plants. Hunter-gatherers are mobile, not sedentary.