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There is no shortage of tales about way- farers heading up to Canada’s north, looking for a new life adventure. And with nearby diamond and precious metal
mining, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories sees its fair share of new faces. The locals will tell you that people come and go, but there are a few constants — it’s very cold much of the year, the Aurora Borealis is stunning, and the inhabitants of Canada’s north enjoy a good brew. Fletcher Stevens has lived in Yellowknife his entire adult life, building a career as a mechanic for a major car company. He and his wife Miranda were looking to beat the high cost of beer in the Northwest Territories by trying their hand at home brewing. However, this hedge against liquor taxes turned into a full-time career in brewing.
The NWT Brewing Co. is the northern most brewery in Canada. They combine Canadian-grown grains with the purest water in the world to create their unique beers, infused with the “can-do, make-do” spirit of the North. Spotlight on Business...
If a picture is worth a thousandwords, a tab label on a culturally-relevant and customer- friendly web page has got to be worth more, right? Head to fieldstoneorganics.ca and you’ll find front and centre – and layered over a flannelled and sun-kissed forearm with an outstretched hand freely grazing the top of a grain crop – a tab that reads Our Dif- ference. Click on that tab and you’ll know straight away what motivates the Fieldstone Granary team. It’s their collective belief in the goodness of organics and whole grains. It’s their pride in healthy organic foods grown exclusively in Western Canada. It’s their partnerships with local farmers in British Columbia to grow the best crop on healthy soils for long term sustainability. It’s the knowledge that their market is no longer a niche market and that increasingly informed consumers want their food grown and handled without the use of chemicals, herbicides, pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. Fieldstone Granary benefits local communities not only in the Okanagan but through- out North America by providing delicious whole grains, legumes, and seeds for bulk, wholesale and retail consumers through their online store. In early December Spotlight on Business had the pleasure of speakingwith FieldstoneGranary’s founder and owner Tony Van Den Tillaart and general manager Paula Siddons. Tony and Paula were more than eager to separate the wheat from the chaff as passionate representatives of...
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JANUARY 2018
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