Our Growing Practices. Lakestone Family Farm is USDA Certified Organic through NOFA-NY Certified Organic LLC since 2012. Many of our practices exceed the minimum requirements of the National Organic Program (NOP), which defines the USDA standards. Certified organic poultry and eggs come from our own animals that are not given antibiotics or growth hormones. Organic produce is grown without using specific conventional pesticides, fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. We are inspected annually and are required to keep records for NOFA-NY and the USDA. For more information about organic production, please ask. We’d be happy to tell you more. Our animals are both free range and pasture raised. Free-range animals are allowed continuous access to the outdoors during their production cycle. Pasture raised animals receive some of their nutrients from pasture throughout their life, however, we also feed them balanced rations of grain from Lakeview Organic Grain, which contributes to the cost of their production considerably. Chickens are not ruminants like sheep or goats and cannot survive on pasture alone.
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