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The Ashdale Honey Brown is brewed using honey from hives on the farm. The Barn Swallow Farmhouse Ale is made entirely with Nova Scotia Horton Ridge Malt. The Shack Wacky Apple Cider is made from 100 percent Annapolis Valley apples. The Surf and Turf Scotch Ale is a silver medal winner, taking home
second at the 2015 Atlantic Canadian Beer Awards. The Grist Mill Wheat Beer and the Lunch Box Pale Ale, though, speak best to the Meander River Farm & Brewery brand. The former is named for a gristmill recovered from a tributary of the Meander River which crosses through the 186-acre, 200-year- old mixed farm for two kilometres in Hants County, Nova Scotia owned and operated by the Bailey family: Alan and Brenda and their daughter, Campbell, and son, Fraser. The latter is named for Brenda’s father, who, as it’s so movingly put at MeanderRiverFarm.ca, “enabled us with the skills...
If you like a good story, it all started in a classroom. If numbers get your atten- tion, the first location was 3,000 square feet, the second 26,000, and now it operates out of 38,000 (with 30 feet high ceilings). If you’re a bottom line kind of person, it sells more than $7 million USD every year – and it’s projected to get even better. If you like recognition, it’s been on the Inc. 5000 list for the past five years. If you like pictures of hardworking people enjoying the great outdoors with their families in free and imaginative ways thanks to their rugged, heavy-duty pickup truck bed covers, check out DiamondBack Truck Cover’s Instagram page. When Ethan Wendle, the president and CEO of DiamondBack Truck Covers in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania spoke with Spotlight on Business in July, I almost immediately confessed to him that I spent the better part of an...
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JULY 2017
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