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When I think about the number 30, I feel like I should be much older, but then again, I guess I am.  Everyone says that time flies when you are having fun, with how fast these years have gone by, we must have been having way too much fun.  From our first 2 pigs, Charlotte and Wilber to three magnificent children, Thomas, Marcus and Lieschen, loosing a barn to fire, rebuilding the barn, selling a farm and moving multiple times, it has certainly been a wild ride. We sold and bought back our business, we’ve loved and lost pets and...

Life brings adversities in different shapes and forms. For Mike and me, our road has not been an easy one but I can truly look back now and say it has formed who we are today. This blog post is dedicated to two women who were on those difficult rides right along with us – my mother Angela and mother in law Anne. My mother was born in Limosano, Italy and came to Canada in 1956 at the age of six years old. Coming to Canada meant a new adventure, a new life full of opportunity and a life of...

LET’S TALK REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE Our Head Office Ranch is located in the middle of vast rolling hills that would make it very challenging to grow crops on. With the cattle, we are able to utilize the rolling hills and the abundance of different grass species it grows. The term “Regenerative Agriculture” is becoming more and more well known. Funny enough, many ranchers like ourselves, have been taking care of their ecosystem along with their cattle from the beginning – without realizing the positive impact it truly has. Animals play a large role in Regenerative Agriculture. Grasslands actually NEED...

Whether I liked it or not, my future was foreordained for the sustainable farming industry. It is quite humorous how life plays out; is it one step that leads to a totally altered path, or maybe, like my mother says, it really is destiny.  April 22, 1970 not only marks my birth date but is the anniversary of the modern environmental movement, the very first Earth Day. Later on in life I was to read why my birthday was such a significant date in history. On April 22, 1970, millions of people took to the streets and parks to rally...