FAQ

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• Who owns Organic Meadow?

  Farmers! There are over 100 producing farmers that co-operatively own Organic Meadow. By purchasing Organic Meadow products you are helping to support small independent family farms.

   

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• Where are our farms located?

  Organic Meadow is owned by a farmers co-operative with farms located throughout Ontario. To see where our farms are located,  click here.  

   

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• How does Organic Meadow support their local communities?

  The family farms of our co-op believe in creating healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy animals, which in turn help to grow healthy communities.  We are committed to helping out our local communities by giving charitable donations to the following organizations: The Stop/Green Barn, Farmers Helpline, a co-op development in Gambia (Africa), the Guelph Family Shelter, Second Harvest and others.

   

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• Why purchase Organic Meadow

  Farmers own our company, so by purchasing Organic Meadow products at the grocery store, you are directly supporting the family farms who work so diligently to bring you fresh, high quality organic products. 

   

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• Are your cows pastured?

  Organic Meadow is a Co-operative with each of our small family-run farms being independently owned and operated.  What happens on each farm is slightly different, depending on the cow breed, the soil type, the amount of land they have etc.

   

  Being certified organic, they all must abide by the organic rules which include that the cows must eat primarily grass.  Throughout the warm months this is more obvious since they are on pasture between approx. April and November eating what they graze. 

   

  When the grass is covered during the snowy winter months, eating only grass is not possible.  What they are also given is alfalfa, peas, oats, soybeans, corn etc.  Our farmers also collect the hay in summer for storage to feed the cows during the winter months.  

   

  All of their feed must be 100% certified organic, non GMO and must not contain any animal byproducts.

   

  We like our members to create a complete system on their farms.  What this means is that all of the feed for the cows is produced on farm, and then the manure is properly composted and applied back onto the crops.  This, with proper crop rotation will allow the farm to run sustainably.  The type of grains each producer feed their cows depends on what can be grown in their fields.

   

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