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Springstein-area farmers Andreas Zinn and his mother Monika Zinn are experienced direct marketers who see a growing demand for their production.

Direct Farm Manitoba begins membership drive

Direct Farm Manitoba has merged with Small Farms Manitoba to build up its membership base

By Lorraine Stevenson November 9, 2016

Andreas Zinn grew up on a farm in the breeder pullet business, but as a youngster he was mostly interested in his mother’s backyard flock. He’d eventually decide to farm. It was that flock that influenced him most, says Zinn. “I could see both management systems and the benefits of each,” he says. “But I

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Local farm groups teaming up

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 25, 2016

Small Farms Manitoba and Direct Farm Manitoba are joining forces. Direct Farm Manitoba is a new association formed after the Farmer’s Market Association of Manitoba broadened membership criteria this spring. Small Farms Manitoba is an online network created by Kalynn Spain who spent the summer of 2014 visiting and writing about smaller farmers in Manitoba.

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Direct Farm Manitoba wants more marketing freedom for farm products

Direct Farm Manitoba, organized in March 2016 to represent farms producing and selling direct  to consumers, holds first meeting with provincial ag minister

By Lorraine Stevenson September 27, 2016

A first meeting with the provincial minister of agriculture has gone well, says a spokesman for a new organization representing direct marketers of farm products. Phil Veldhuis is spokesman for Direct Farm Manitoba, a group organized this spring to promote an improved policy environment for direct-to-consumer farm business. They sat down last week with Ralph

St. Norbert’s indoor winter farmers’ markets are test runs in preparation for expansion year round, say executive director Marilyn Firth and FMAM president Phil Veldhuis.

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St. Norbert’s Farmers’ Market grows — in winter

Customer demand is the main driver behind plans to expand to year-round operations

By Lorraine Stevenson February 23, 2016

The temperature is hovering around -25 C outside, but shoppers at St. Norbert’s Farmers’ Market mill among its stalls like it’s a balmy Saturday in July. They’re indoors, of course, visiting Manitoba’s largest farmers’ market’s winter market. This is the second winter St. Norbert’s stayed open for biweekly Saturday markets after October, with about 30

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New farm organization for direct marketers proposed

Discussions now focused on possible partnership with  Farmers Market Association of Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson January 27, 2016

The Farmers Market Association of Manitoba (FMAM) may change its name and become the new farm organization called for in a report delving into supports needed for farms that direct market. About 50 people met last fall for a day-long meeting and consultation on how to create a more formalized group. “What we’re looking at

Bailey Gitzel sells her cookie sandwiches and French macaroons at the opening day of the Carman Farmers’ Market June 19. The 17-year-old Graysville entrepreneur also sells honey produced from her own beehives. She plans to study agriculture at university.

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New specialists, more online resources for small-scale production

The government must act quickly to keep up with needs of a fast-emerging sector, says report chair

By Lorraine Stevenson June 25, 2015

Manitoba is acting on the recommendations for improving the working environment of small-scale farmers and processors, says Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn. Last week he and other MAFRD officials were at the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market to introduce the two business development specialists being reassigned in the department to work with these

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Province sets up roundtable group for small farmers and processors

Needs and issues of Manitoba’s emerging ‘small-farm sector’ will be raised

By Lorraine Stevenson May 26, 2014

Small-scale producers are welcoming the formation of a new working group headed by the province’s former chief veterinarian to help develop local food-marketing chains. “This is the venue that we hoped for,” said Leanne Anderson, a Cypress River-area farmer and chair of the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative, which last month ran into a snag

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Direct Farm Manitoba begins membership drive

Local farm groups teaming up

Direct Farm Manitoba wants more marketing freedom for farm products

St. Norbert’s Farmers’ Market grows — in winter

New farm organization for direct marketers proposed

New specialists, more online resources for small-scale production

Province sets up roundtable group for small farmers and processors

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