We continue to amplify local businesses for the Dufferin Board of Trade.
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Part of what we really wanted to do here was bring that community sense and have people understand that these towns are an incredible viable place still that needs to have those attractions and needs to have people visiting them. We know that we can provide safe food. We know that we can provide quality food. You don’t have to travel very far to get it. So why not support your neighbours? We are a family here. It’s not just me. It’s a we here. We are a team and we function and we make this business run. Through the building of Rosemont, we ensure that we only employed local contractors, we tried to work with local suppliers as much as possible, and when we did our ceiling of our expansion, we found some original of the tin stamped tiles and worked with a local Mennonite family, and they actually stamped us replicas of that tin to be able to redo our entire ceiling. My passion here on the farm is actually growing. So growing the vegetables, growing the garden, watching the progress, seeing something come to fruition at the end of the season. I think it’s a benefit to be able to offer that same produce or same option to my local community. We put a lot of time and effort and care into what we produce and we like to keep our customers returning. I find the food is what’s picking up now. I’ve got families that are doing outings. More people don’t have the time to cook or spend time in the kitchen. They want to spend time more with their family and friends. We do have a special wood stone pizza oven that all the chefs get trained on. We bring in a lot of different produce from local suppliers and local farmers, as well as working with local meat providers and dairy farmers. And it’s so easy to go farm to table when the farms right up the road. And the way the market got kind of started was it’s a self-serve market and we used to have people wanting potatoes. And of course, I wouldn’t be here. So I put them out on a pallet and and leave them and people put money in the in the jar and come and get their potatoes all fall and one thing another. And so it kind of evolved from that. The products we have are cakes, cupcakes, cookies. We do take home meals. We sell our frozen meals at Cheltenham General Store. We do take out catering, sugar cookies, those are for baby showers, weddings, birthdays. We’re also a nut free facility, nut free, tree nut free facility. What’s great about what we do with Rosemont is we bring in a lot of the local things, but then we also complement that with a great deal of passion that we have from England. And a lot of that comes from my mum being born in England, and we sort of continue to bring that over. Being a part of the farm has always been sort of a part of who I am. It’s part of my heritage. I grew up knowing the importance of the farm. It’s sort of part of the family. So if we can be that place that people can stop to and experience something new and see part of Ontario, then we hope that we can continue to do that.