4/27/10 - Sun Chronicle - Signs Show City Business are Experiencing Upturn
There are growing signs the area might be emerging from the Great Recession. Evidence turned up in a Sun Chronicle survey to determine the Top 10 Employers in Attleboro in a front page report Monday. Walter Cekala, owner of Willow Tree, says the company has added approximately 25 employees over the past five years as the reach of its two major products - frozen chicken pies and fresh chicken salad - has expanded from New England into New Jersey and upper New York.
3/3/10 - Food Engineering - Now You're Cooking With Gas!
Willow Tree Farm is fast becoming a national player in prepared fresh and frozen poultry products. Started in the late 1800s as a small chicken farm that delivered eggs to the community, today the Attleboro, MA, firm focuses on premium poultry pies and deli-fresh chicken and turkey salads.
2/1/10 - Grocery Headquarters - Red Hot in Rhode Island
Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but when it comes to culinary expertise and enlightenment it easily surpasses its large, more cosmopolitan rivals. With the exception of Willow Tree Chicken Salad, all of the other salads featured in the deli case are from the commissary.
11/25/09 - Boston Herald - Robert Kraft Heads Turkey Givings
Several Patriots players put smiles on the faces of many people as they gave out food baskets filled with turkeys and other
Thanksgiving Day fixings to 200 families in need at Goodwill’s Boston
headquarters in Roxbury. The turkeys were donated by Willow Tree Farms in Attleboro, the baskets
donated by Sterilite Corporation in Townsend, while Shaws took care of
the canned goods, stuffing, pies, etc.
10/28/09 - WBZ - What’s in Store Feature
When you think of the best chicken salad or chicken pie you've ever had, chances are you think of Willow Tree Farm. WBZ went behind the scenes to show you how they make such delicious products.
7/1/09 - Local Holiday Food for the 4th – featured
You can't beat a party platter from Willow Tree for some of your summer entertaining.
4/15/09 - Local Foods and Restaurant Column – Featured
You may always think about chicken when you think of Willow Tree, but they also have an assortment of
fresh-baked pies. And thay make party platters, too.
4/5/09 - “Artsy chicken rules the roost at Attleboro museum fundraiser”, Mascot wins bragging rights!
And the winner is ... Willy T, a chicken.
And what did Willy T
do? He beat a television weatherman, a Wheaton College professor and a
traffic reporter in a flower arrangement contest.
4/1/09 - “Petal to the Metal”
What do a meteorologist, a traffic reporter, a professor, and a chicken
know about arranging flowers? Not much, but that's just the kind of
thing that's going to make the Attleboro Arts Museum's annual Flower
Show so much more fun this year.
11/20/07 - Boston.com - A Lot of Giving
In conjunction with Shaw's Supermarkets and Willow Tree Farm, gridiron
gods Benjamin Watson, Kyle Eckel, Kevin Faulk, Ty Warren, and owner Robert Kraft handed out food baskets filled with turkeys and all the
trimmings to 200 families.
