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Grass Fed Grain Finished vs Grass Finished

September 22, 2011

Grass finished beef is beef that has not received any grain for at least the last 12 months. The grass finished beef that Hoven Farms is selling now has not received any grain since the spring of 2010. Our regular beef is grass fed and grain finished. The animals are raised on pasture but receive [...]

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Kingsland Corn Festival: The Video

August 17, 2011

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A Concerned Consumer wrote…..

August 16, 2011

I recently called Alberta and Canadian Food Services departments and asked them about organic foods and no chemical pesticides or herbicides or antibiotics etc…..Both said that there was NO direct connection between Fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or anything related to the foods that we eat in Canada and our health. None of those affecfs our [...]

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Canoeing on the Lake

August 16, 2011

It is a little know fact that we have a lake on our land. Not a great lake, but a lake nonetheless. It is an old peat bog that burned out a hundred and thirty years ago and has now filled with water. Now at about 100acres, it holds a tremendous amount of water. It [...]

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Harmful Chemicals in Makeup

August 5, 2011

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What the USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms

August 4, 2011

Interesting article at Mother Jones. The big news? A single antibiotic-resistant pathogen, MRSA—just one of many now circulating among Americans—now claims more lives each year than AIDS. It is increasing resistance to antibiotics in bacteria found in animals is a problem. The bacteria get resistance in animals, and transfer to humans. Swine flu anyone?

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Latest from the Kingsland Farmers Market

July 27, 2011

As you may or may not know, Hoven Farms is a vendor at the Kingsland Farmers Market. Here is the latest video with some news about the market, especially what new vendors are at the market!

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The Hen Pen

June 28, 2011

We were working on getting the Hen Pen back into action today. Build about 13 years ago, it has sat unused for most of its life. But now with Francis getting some hens, we hopefully will have it set up and have our free range chickens living and grazing out of the Hen Pen once [...]

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