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Intervale Farm

1047 Intervale Road
207-926-3008

Looking for grass-fed beef?

Our antibiotic-free, hormone-free, all-natural heifers 
are rotationally grazed for the season on rolling grass fields.

Most beef bought at your local store is from cattle finished at feed lots where they are confined and fed a heavy diet of corn and grains to fatten them up.  Even some high-end, local, all-natural, antibiotic free cattle are finished in a feed lot!  Cattle were meant to eat grass!  Grass-fed beef is better for your health than corn-finished beef.  It is higher in the healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, and lower in saturated fat than corn-finished beef.  Our cattle graze on fresh green grass all summer.  Although we could produce 100% grass-fed beef, our philosophy is to feed them just a little grain 'for dessert'.  Cattle do LOVE grain!  And kids do LOVE cookies!  But you wouldn't feed your kids cookies all day!  And, cattle shouldn't eat grain all day.  We give our cattle just one or two pounds of grain a day.  This does three things: it keeps them happy; it gives us daily contact with our animals keeping them friendly, and it makes the beef just tender enough without all of the fat.


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