POLICES AND PROCEDURES
POULTRY/MEAT
HornE Acres Farm follows all Minnesota licensing, registration and inspection requirements for the selling of poultry and/or meat products in Minnesota set by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) under the Minn. Stat. 28A.15; Minn. Stat. 29.
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HornE Acres Farm is not required to be licensed under the rules and regulations that we follow set by the MDA; however we volunteer to register with the MDA and proceed with following all applicable laws and regulations that follow when handling, processing, packaging and distributing of our poultry and/or meat products that specially apply to us and our products.
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A complete list of MDA laws and policies can be found at the website listed below for Registration for Poultry Products in Minnesota.
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https://www.mda.state.mn.us/food-feed/poultry-processing
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COTTAGE FOOD PRODUCER
HornE Acres Farm follows all Minnesota licensing, registration and inspection requirements for the Cottage Food Producer certificate. This Law allows for individuals to make and sell certain non-potentially hazardous food and canned goods in Minnesota without a license. This law, the Cottage Food Exemption, went into effect in 2015 and includes details on the prior training and registration, types of food allowed, food labeling, types of sales locations, and amount of sales allowed by a cottage food producer. You can read about the rules and regulations in governance of production, sales and consumer regulations at Minn. Stat. 28A.152.
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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/28A.152
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/28A.152
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BEE READY
HORNE ACRES FARM has been awarded a $350 grant to help fund a pollinator patch for the Lawns to Legumes program funded through the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) in which the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) is in partnership with Blue Thumb to oversee the projects success.
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Final plans for our pollinator garden must be placed by July of 2022 to be accepted by the BWSR board of directors and Blue Thumb for approval. We have applied for this grant since they started offering applications for it in 2019. We are honored to be awarded this grant for the 2022 year. We anticipate a three year journey to establish our pollinator acres to help promote our the health and establishment of habitat and to focus on protecting the endangered rusty patched bumble bee, the Minnesota state bee. We also want to establish a diverse supply of food for our honey bee's on the farm while balancing the ecosystem equally.
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If you are interested in applying for this grant next year, please follow this link below to send in your application today or gather more information.
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