As an on-farm processor and retailer, Twin Peaks Creamery has worked with both SaskHealth and SaskMilk to establish itself. To long-timers in the dairy industry, it may be surprising that SaskMilk is open to the concept, but Art Pruim believes the organization is growing with the changes rather than challenging them. Related story: Sask. creamery […] Read more
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VIDEO: A practical outlook
Manitoba entrepreneur applies personal philosophy about using local, healthy foods to create thriving business
As a rich, marzipan-like scent wafts out of a tiny container of brass-gold oil that she is holding, Mila Maximets muses on years of painstaking efforts to use all parts of the tart cherries she processes. “I’m not into juices,” said Maximets, who has been manufacturing a seabuckthorn puree for five years and has just […] Read more
Winkler: ballooning with community spirit
Manitoba town’s soaring population attributed to a skilled workforce, immigration and spirit of co-operation
WINKLER, Man. — If visitors to Winkler drive around the small city looking for the multinational-owned factories that one would assume have powered the tremendous growth in the local economy, they won’t find any. However, they will see a lot of factories ringing the community of 12,000 people, almost all of them owned by local residents. […] Read more
Improving lives, part by part
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — A small warehouse here is supplying the world with new and improved parts for air seeders. Airguard Industries owned by Brian and Kim Cruson has doubled business since they started three years ago. They deal with farmers from Norway to Australia selling specially designed parts Brian assembles in a corner of the […] Read more
Turning loss into new ventures
LA MALBAIE, Que. — Losing a job in rural Alberta can have a silver lining for those who have harboured dreams of creating their own businesses. Shane Stewart, chair of the Community Futures Network of Alberta and a building contractor near Blairmore, said many would like to get started but need support and money. “That’s […] Read more
Brothers not held back by blindness
Rural enterprise | Twin brothers operate home-based computer and baking businesses in Swan River, Man.
SWAN RIVER, Man. — Wrangling computer viruses and tempting palates are no small feats for two twins from Swan River. The 29-year-old entrepreneurs are both legally blind. Christopher Yelinek repairs, sells and sets up systems at Cat ’N’ Mouse Computers, while Devon prepares an assortment of cookies on order at Devon’s Cookies. They grew up […] Read more
Small town suds soak up praise, out-of-town traffic
Ribstone Creek Brewery | Craft brewery energizes local economy in Edgerton, Alta.
EDGERTON, Alta. — Edgerton isn’t on everyone’s driving destination yet, but at least 150 pins are stuck into a map indicating the home towns of visitors who stopped at the brewery. The original owners of Ribstone Creek Brewery didn’t set out to make the brewery into one of their village’s tourist destinations, but it has […] Read more
