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Cedar Ridge Farms Uses Kelp for More Than Just Animals
JD Jones runs Cedar Ridge Farms on 280 acres in Northwest Arkansas. He’s been farming since he was a teenager, less a brief period when he served two tours in Iraq, returning to what he feels is his true calling. JD has 30 - 50 head of beef cattle that graze 180 acres of grassland and 16 - 20 hogs that graze his 100-acre woodlot eating roots,...
Fjord to Feeder: How Thorvin for Animals gets to your livestock
We choose our kelp species for their nutrient content, clean growing site, and sustainability of harvest. Thorvin for Animals is harvested in Northwest Iceland in the pristine Breidafjord bay. The cold clean waters of the Fjord are richly mineralized by many geothermal hot springs supplying deep earth minerals, glacial milch rivers, and the...
Commercial Fruit & Vegetable Grower Praises Benefit of Thorvin
“While at the farmers market yesterday I was selling produce and plants, I am always promoting the benefits of Thorvin kelp. Customers tell me how sweet my carrots and lettuce are. I attribute that sweetness to kelp. People do not understand the need for the full spectrum of nutrients. By the way, I am now adding it to the soil when I transplant...
Longtime Thorvin Enthusiast
It was a profound pleasure to visit Jack Bostic and see his homestead farm. It was immediately apparent that this man has a vast amount of experience in, and knowledge of, growing and caring for plants. He uses Thorvin for Plants - Foliar and Thorvin’s kelp meal very successfully on his four acres of organic gardens and orchards. Jack was happy...
Thorvin beef makes “Best Old-Fashioned Burger in Utah”
Ruby Ranch in Green River, Utah provides the Thorvin-fed pastured beef to make the "Best Old-Fashioned Burger in Utah" at Milt's, Moab's oldest restaurant. Kerry Rozman says, "I'm convinced the minerals are part of what gives it a lot better flavor." Kerry & Curtis Rozman learned about Thorvin in 1998 from veterinarian Dr. Paul Dettloff. At...
My Irish Setter’s coat has never looked better!
Gerry Domanik, OH (Thorvin for Animals is good for pets too!) Gerry Domanik has been raising Irish Setters for 46 years. He started using Thorvin for Animals a little over a year ago with his 10-year-old Irish Setter. "It's a wonderful product. I can't say enough about it. My Irish Setter's coat has never looked better. I get many compliments on...
The Untapped Potential of Seaplants
Interview with Thorvin Founder, Bill Wolf You have had a lifelong passion for sea vegetation. Why? It all started when I was apprenticing for the late Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, a visionary designing better ways for managing the impact of human behavior on the Earth’s resources. I discovered that the locals ate seaweed, fertilized their gardens,...
Adding Value to Pet Formulations with Thorvin
Thorvin contains a complex array of bioavailable minerals, vitamins, and beneficial phytonutrients, which are important for healthy metabolic function including digestion, skin and coat health, and immune response. Sought-after for pet food and treat formulations, Thorvin is also used in supplements. For this interview, we had the good fortune of...
New Thorvin Icelandic Harvest Underway
The days are getting longer and a bit warmer in Iceland, and that signals the start of Thorvin’s new harvest season for our Icelandic Geothermal Kelp – Ascophyllum nodosum. This nutrient‐rich species of kelp is used in several of Thorvin’s products in the agricultural, pet, and nutritional markets. Best known for its nutrient density and...
Choosing Quality Kelp
Seawater contains all the essential minerals for sustaining our lives, in the same ratios as the human blood stream. Seaplants absorb nutrients from the seawater directly through their leaf‐like fronds. In contrast, land plants can only feed from the limited minerals present around their roots. Powerful Bio‐accumulators Kelps are among the most...
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