Going Local and Organic without Going Broke

We understand the importance of eating fresh and healthy. We also appreciate our customers' desire for fresh, locally grown organic food (produced typically within a 100 mile radius) that is affordable. Given the short growing season we live in, we don't carry locally grown kiwis or bananas, but the variety of local products we do have sell well because of their excellent quality and affordable price.

Here's Our Taste of
Fresh and Local:

In the Meat Department

Poultry
Our chicken comes fresh from Ferme Aux Saveur des Monts in Val-Des-Monts. It is grain-fed and free of antibiotics and hormones. This poultry has that old-fashioned delicious full flavour that you or someone from previous generations might remember. Our local poultry is delivered fresh every Thursday. From them, we also carry chicken sausages, ground chicken and fresh turkeys at Thanksgiving.
Beef
We've always been picky about the quality of our beef. Last year, we selected what we believe to be the best-tasting local beef available from the Cedarview Charolais farm in Farrelton. This beef is raised and finished by Carolyn Kelly and Mark Boyd, who is also our butcher.
We are one of the few stores in the area who get FRESH local beef that we age and butcher ourselves on premises. This allows for maximum flavour and tenderness.
We are so confident that this will be the best beef you have ever tasted, we have a Money Back Guarantee!
Lamb
When we can get it, our local lamb comes from the Bellar-Spruyt farm in Lascelles. Locals love its fresh, slightly gamey taste and delicate texture.

In the Produce Department

The availability of truly local fruits and vegetables is bound to our growing season. We do carry organic produce as well, but keep in mind it has usually traveled a distance to get to us. This is what we have as local produce:

  • From Woods Farm in Lascelles - a variety of lettuces and mixed greens
  • From Marvin Pegg's greenhouse in Gracefield - hothouse tomatoes and English cucumbers
  • From MacMillan's Farm in Wakefield - corn and pumpkins (in July and the fall)
  • From Eternal Seeds in Farrelton - organic vegetable, flower and herb seeds

In the Grocery and Deli Departments

  • Pure unpasteurized local honey in spring, summer and fall flavours from the Bellar Spruyts' Berg en Dal apiary in Lascelles
  • Goat cheese from Ferme Florape in Papineauville
  • Fresh cheese curds from La Trappe à Fromage de L'Outaouais in Gatineau
  • Cheddar cheese from St. Albert cheese Factory in St. Albert, Ontario as well as a wide variety of artisan Quebec cheeses and pâtés from through-out Quebec
  • Maple Syrup from Ripon
  • Vietnamese Spring Rolls and pad-Thai salad from Épicerie Poukham in Hull
  • Organic flours and baking mixes from Moulin Abenakis
  • Chamberlin's Lookout takeout meals, pizzas, soups, sandwiches, meat pies and salads all prepared upstairs in our restaurant kitchen.
  • Breads and buns baked daily at the Wakefield Bakery