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Our Story
The family farm started with my father as a boy learning to farm alongside his dad, my grandfather. My father cleared the land himself, which is located in the northern boreal forest. Some of my (Wendy) earliest memories are of my father coming home at dark after a long day of work. He would be covered in dirt from the open cab cat he was driving. He'd also let me “drive.” My favorite part was pulling the levers to make it turn and lifting the blade up and down. As I grew, I helped pick up the dead tree roots. Slowly piece by piece we cleared the land for crop.
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Once my kids were old enough, they were working on the farm alongside my father, picking roots in the fields, mowing lawns, cleaning out bins, and eventually driving the tractors and combine. They loved every second of it. My father loved teaching his grandchildren and was so proud when he called to tell me that my daughter, Megan, had done all his seeding for him that year.
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My father loved people and always made everyone feel welcome. He was very generous to friends and strangers alike. He was extremely giving with his time, always making a point of listening to others and making them feel heard. Even though the farm kept him busy, he would always make the time to help someone in need. He especially loved spending time with his grandchildren. He had a way of making each grandchild feel like they were his favorite. Always taking time to play one more game with a grandchild or read one more story.
My father's sudden death hit us all hard. We still miss him so much.
In the years that followed my father’s death, my mother didn’t want to see the land my father and her worked so hard on dispersed and sold. Because Tom and I also farmed organic, we were able to rent most of the land from her, trying our best to keep the farm in the family. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to still get to work my father’s land.
We moved to central Alberta about 10 years ago as well as continuing to farm up North. Tom and our daughters run the northern farm. Our girls enjoy working the land, planting the seeds, and combining the grain when it’s ready and at the same time maintaining the equipment and doing all the little things it takes to run a farm. While Tom and our two oldest go up north to farm, my youngest daughter and I run the mill here.
Throughout the years we have become increasingly passionate about being organic. We’ve dreamed about making healthy organic grain a more accessible food source. It is so exiting to see our dream turn into a reality! We now not only grow our own organic grain up in northern Alberta, we also mill it locally. We are grateful for this opportunity to help supply Alberta with locally grown, organic, stone-ground flour.
No matter what happens or where the farming takes us, we will always be brought back to the values that the land and hard work has taught us. I love to stand barefoot at the home place feeling the earth under my feet and the sun on my face. I look out over the land recognizing the amount of contentment, love, generosity and the principles of hard work and sacrifice that has been grown here. I am proud of the skills and values I have learned from this legacy and I am so grateful that Tom and I can pass these values on to our kids and grand-kids.
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