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These young visitors enjoyed meeting farm animals at Aurora Farm during the 2015 Open Farm Day. That’s now a thing of the past during the ongoing pandemic.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Aurora Farm delivers groceries in an effort to adapt to COVID-19

The experienced farm and market box seller is adapting its operations due to the coronavirus

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A farm built on up-close-and-personal on-farm experiences is retooling in the social distancing age. Aurora Farm, near St. Norbert, had lured urbanites with a petting zoo and ‘goat yoga’ featuring baby goats. Now due to COVID-19, it’s pulling the plug on those events for the foreseeable future, and launching a grocery delivery service. Owner and
Customers wait in line to get into the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market on March 21, part of safety measures the market enacted.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Farmers’ market moves online amid demand for local food, adjusting to COVID-19

Organizers seek to balance safety while helping small producers sell product

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Shoppers at St. Norbert Farmers’ market can now opt to buy online and pick up instead of browsing in person. The move comes as part of efforts to maintain public health regulations while making local food available during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a market for food and household goods, it will remain open despite recent
Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek farm beef, lamb and bees near Cartwright.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Small food producers innovate to survive

Creativity, humour and social distancing combine to get food to customers for one meat producer

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Direct-marketing farmers and food producers are finding creative ways to get meals on their customers’ tables and maintain a sense of community. “You guys are all amazing and you convinced us that we will get through this crazy time. Enjoy your food, stay home, stay safe, stay classy,” Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek of Fresh
Farmit Manitoba, Letters, Other

Letters: Buying local no disaster

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I believe buying Canadian food is a great idea. Hence I was troubled by Sylvain Charlebois’ article in the January 30 Co-operator, which noted Feds’ Buy Canadian food campaign could be a disaster. The federal government is pursuing CETA the Canadian European Trade Agreement which could result in French cheese being more available than Manitoba
Justin Girard
News, News & Opinion

Year in Review: Local food producers struggle ahead

Lack of supply chains, business risk management programs, and clear regulations are keeping local food from reaching its full potential in Manitoba, say producers, experts

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Manitoba has a way to go before it’s a friendly place for small food and drink producers, several articles demonstrated throughout the year. Be it crippling regulations, lack of risk management programs for small farmers, or simply lack of local supply chains, several factors say Manitoba’s local food system has yet to fully mature. “It
British Columbia has had a farmers’ market coupon system since 2007, and has reported good success.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Market coupons aim to give less fortunate local food access

The system, to be administered by Direct Farm Manitoba, is modelled on a system British Columbia has had since 2007

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A program that would give farmers’ market coupons to low-income families will help people and build a market for small food producers, Direct Farm Manitoba says. “I believe this program is a fantastic tool to help pitch in and address food insecurity by helping restore local food economies,” said Justin Girard, who heads the steering
Farm Fresh Food Hub board co-chair Katie Daman announces confirmation of a provincial grant.
Local news, News, Other

Farm Fresh Food Hub gets a financial boost from province

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An influx of provincial cash will get a local food distribution off the ground, the Farm Fresh Food Hub announced September 25. “We’re really excited,” board co-chair Katie Daman told the assembled crowd at the “season finale” of the South Osborne Farmers’ Market. The Farm Fresh Food Hub is a non-profit community service co-op run
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and Parliamentary Ag Secretary Jean-Claude Poissant, at right, visited the Carrefour Alimentaire Centre-Sud in Montreal on June 17, 2019 to formally launch the federal Food Policy for Canada. (Photo courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
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Federal food policy aims to lift local and Canadian-grown products

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Federal programs to boost the profile of domestic and locally grown foods at home while reducing food waste, food insecurity and deceptive food marketing are all up for funding under the government’s new Food Policy for Canada. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and Parliamentary Ag Secretary Jean-Claude Poissant announced the new policy Monday in Montreal, following
The popularity of farmers’ markets has created a situation where roughly the same number of customers are spread out more thinly.
Local news, News, Other

More markets, more vendors, more challenges

Increasing visitor traffic to farmers’ markets would help, says Jeff Veenstra, Wild Earth Farms owner

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The perception is farmers’ markets are booming, and that’s true if you’re a consumer. More farmers’ markets with more vendors selling at them is great for customers, but it’s adding challenges for those whose livelihood hinges on how well a day’s sales goes — especially when customer traffic falls off. Jeff Veenstra, is co-owner of
Thousand Hills Ranch owner Dean Hildebrand looks over the meat products he’s brought to the Pembina Valley Local Food Market as the venue gets rolling on market day inside the Morden Public Library.
Local news, News

The farmers’ market goes high tech

A small group of local food producers are taking their marketing efforts online

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Squinting through blowing snow isn’t how most vendors travel to farmers’ markets across Manitoba — but that’s the sort of trip owners of Thousand Hills Ranch take once in a while. Tiina and Dean Hildebrand, who raise grass-fed beef and lamb near Morden, keep a segment of the Morden summer farmers’ market going through the

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