Lake Land Game Meats, St. Catharines, ON

The Vaughn family has been farming in west St. Catharines since 1902 and at its present location since 1918. Three generations work together to farm 250 acres, which include livestock, pasture, hay production, cash crops, market gardening and eggs. We currently run a 25-head Hereford/Angus beef cow/calf-to-finish operation. This means that we take care of the beef we raise from start to finish. We feed our own home-grown hay to our cattle, as well as grain for finishing and we do not administer hormones or antibiotics. We started into deer and wild boar farming in 1986. Our red deer/elk hybrid herd now stands at 40 females. We raise our deer and wild boar from start to finish as well, with complete control over their feed and care (no hormones or antibiotics). Our chickens are free-ranged outside for the most part of the year. In the winter months they are free-run in a large open loft in the barn. They are fed a mixture of grains with added flax seed for extra omega (no hormones or antibiotics). Our farm market garden produces an abundance of sustainably grown vegetables for you to enjoy in season and also for the making of our preserves. We opened our on-farm store in 1995 which now retails a wide selection of game meats, traditional meats, eggs, fresh seasonal produce, preserves from our market garden and a variety of other products from local farmers.