Is it time to reconnect with your food?
Are you frustrated with a lack of quality, local foods available to feed your family?
Are you tired of feeling guilty about your food choices and their impacts?
Do you want to cultivate a trusting relationship with the people that raise your food?
Want to be part of a local food economy that feeds Manitobans, and supports farm families and rural livelihoods?
We want to help you bring joy and trust into sourcing, cooking and eating your food.
How? Here’s our commitment to: Nourish, Protect & Regenerate:
NOURISH
We want to nourish you with quality, nutrient-dense and whole foods.
We want you to find joy in the kitchen.
We can offer you a meaningful connection with where your food is coming from, by getting to know us. We love meeting our customers and their families!
PROTECT
We aim to protect the land, soil and habitats for diverse critters.
We focus on a diversity of plant life for pollinator health.
We wish to help protect rural livelihoods by creating a model for a sustainable family farm and support other local businesses whenever possible.
REGENERATE
We use livestock to help improve the land with a focus on soil health.
We work with other regenerative partners for our honey production yards.
We believe in regenerating traditional foodways and in sharing our knowledge with you!
Meet Your Farmers
Fresh Roots Farm is stewarded by Troy Stozek, Michelle Schram and our two kids: Syd and Sasha. We live on Treaty 1 Territory near Cartwright, MB, on a farmstead that was Michelle’s grandparents’. Our farm focuses on: the birds (laying hens), the bees and the bovines – all based on perennial pastures! We aim to use holistic and regenerative principles to work towards better soil health, healthy livestock, pollinators and habitat for other species. We feel passionate about selling our food directly to local families, and are proud of the quality of our products. We look forward to meeting you, and having you join our community of foodies!
What our community of Eaters is saying:
“We have been buying food from Fresh Roots Farm for as long as they have existed and can’t recommend it highly enough! The quality of the product is fantastic and I love supporting a farm that I know cares about the future of our planet and society. I especially love their Meat Share program as it is a great way to access the cost savings of bulk purchasing without the stress on your freezer or wallet.”
“I was fortunate to receive a jar of Fresh Roots Farm honey as a gift. I eat a LOT of honey and this is by far the most amazing tasting honey I have ever eaten. It has an incredible range of floral flavor notes and never seems too sweet. Absolutely wonderful!”
“We purchased a quarter grass-fed cow last summer and rave about the quality and outstanding taste of this meat to our friends and family. Will definitely be purchasing again. Troy and Michelle are friendly and organized. Great experience, and a way to spend your grocery dollars direct to a farmer!
How to get our food:
Our Monthly Farm-to-Eater Deliveries are as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST
The main way we communicate with our customers! You can expect:
- ‘Friends of the Farm’ email (1x/month): upcoming delivery & online store updates, recipes, what’s available
- ‘Root Down, Head Up’ farm memoir (1x/month): Michelle shares some of the beauty and nitty gritty from life on the farm
- Order reminders (1x/month)
2. SHOP ONLINE STORE
3 main ways to purchase our products:
- Order a-la-carte (anything that’s available that month)
- Pre-order bulk beef (Quarter/Half) for future delivery date
- Meat Share grassfed beef/egg subscriptions (runs annually Feb-Jan)
3. PICK UP YOUR ORDER
Meet up with us on our monthly delivery date at one of two outdoor location options and pick up your order, to take home and enjoy!
You’ll even get a FREE 500g jar of our raw honey along with your first order with us.
Find out more about our pick-up locations and our delivery calendar, here.
Where and when do we deliver?
UPCOMING DELIVERY DATES:
Thursday, June 8 – Winnipeg, MB*
- St. Boniface (Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd), 3-4pm
- River Heights (Reh-Fit Centre, 1390 Taylor Ave.), 5-6pm
Thursday, July 13 – Winnipeg, MB*
- North Kildonan (North Kildonan Mennonite Church, 1131 Roch St.), 3-4pm
- Wolseley (Portage Avenue Church, 1420 Portage Ave.), 5-6pm
These deliveries are in collaboration with other farming friends from The Dogs Run Farm. Check out what they have to offer!
Don’t live in Winnipeg? Please contact us about on-farm pick-up or non-Winnipeg delivery options.
Can’t make our delivery dates?
See our list of raw honey retailers in Manitoba:
![Real talk, guys.
The past couple of weeks have been busy, hot, and dry. This is Go Time in many aspects of the farm - calving time, bee splitting & queening, peak egg laying and it’s supposed to be one of the more crucial growth periods for grass, hay, and annual forages.
But we’ve hardly even gotten 1/2 inch of rain this whole Spring…and things are dry already. Lots of folks in our part of MB are pretty worried.
Above-average temperatures are drying things out further, and make physical work difficult. We’ve had to make some adaptations in terms of how we organize our work day, getting up early to break mid day, trying to head out in the evenings, if we still have the energy after putting the kids to bed. Our house doesn’t have A/C aside from a couple window units doing their best to keep up.
Our garden isn’t finished being planted, and there are half-finished projects everywhere we look. Our bodies are still getting transitioned from the lack of a real Spring. The heat demands extra attention to our animals, providing lots of water & adequate shade. It results in slower growth (cattle) and expending more energy on cooling (bees) who are also more prone to swarming. No one likes a full house in the heat.
Still, we have a plan, we are doing what we can each day and we feel good overall. We have been grazing our cattle for a while already, calving has gone well and Troy’s expanding the honeybee colonies to over 200 this season. We don’t [yet] have a significant amount of smoke in the air. We’re feeling grateful for a lot…including a couple of cool lil dudes. We can’t control the rain and we are making a conscious effort to not begrudge others who are getting it when we are not (sometimes only a mile away). Hoping for a bit of change soon, even just a break in the heat. Take care out there, folks!](https://i0.wp.com/freshrootsfarmmb.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png?w=1080&ssl=1)