Producer Spotlights

Seven years ago, my apiarist friends finally convinced me to take up the hobby of beekeeping. I bought two hives and, that same year, split them into four after acquiring two more queen bees. I extracted the honey using a borrowed 2-frame extractor. ...

 Handcrafting – taking raw ingredients and transforming them into something new and useful – has always intrigued me. Knowing I have created something appreciable gives me joy. As a teen I became fascinated with the idea that lye (made from ashes) an...

Wildfire Farms began ten years ago with a vision of direct marketing grass-fed beef from the Barnabe family beef ranch direct to the consumer. Meaghan Barnabe, owner of the venture, hopes to share with others all the nutrient dense healthy meat that ...

Twenty-some years ago, Janet Kroeker found herself between jobs as a promoter of healthy nutrition, lifestyle choices and safety. That’s when her sister, then owner of Shepherd’s Dream, a wool bedding company in California, asked if she’d like to sta...

Jim Appleby envisions a vibrant, diverse, local food system without chemical inputs. He grew up on a dairy farm, run by his parents, Sam and Anne Appleby near Steinbach. “My parents stopped using chemicals on the farm when I was a kid,” Jim remembers...