Fresh Roots Farm

12/24/2025

Sending you all holiday blessings, much like what this chicken has bestowed upon me here…😝

But seriously, we are super grateful for the support we’ve received from everyone who chose to source food from us in 2025…it was a banner year and we look forward to what the new one will bring.

Here’s to moments of peace, joy, chaos, and good food on your table!

🥩🌮✨HAPPY HOLIDAYS✨🥚🍯

11/28/2025

So many ways to support local farmers this holiday season!

Shopping local this holiday season is a win-win-win - support our local farmers, keep your dollars in the community, and select from a wide variety of unique, high-quality farm products to gift your loved ones!

Visit our website at the link in bio to browse through Manitoba farms and discover new gifting ideas from right here at home!

Featured:
Soap - The Dog's Run Farm
Wool Felt Insoles - Ferme Fiola Farm
Natural dyes and Lambskin - Big Oak Farm
Cider - Wooden Gate Cider
Honey - Fresh Roots Farm

11/05/2025

Hey North Kildonan! 👋
With our next monthly local food delivery coming up this Saturday, November 8, we wanted to make sure folks in your area of the city knew about this great option to source local food for your family!

We offer a number of products from our SW MB regenerative farm, including 🐄GRASSFED BEEF 🍯RAW HONEY 🥚EGGS + other locally-sourced foods!
Our friends at park alongside us, so that you can choose to also source pasture-raised 🐖PORK, 🐑LAMB, 🐓🦃POULTRY, 🐄BEEF, 🥚EGGS, and the BEST 🧼HANDMADE NATURAL SOAPS!

This isn’t new, actually- our farm has been serving the Kildonan areas for a number of years when we saw there seemed to be a lack of local & sustainable food options (especially year-round). We started in the empty parking lot where Safeway had shut down (now FreshCo) and now you can find us over at the parking lot of the North Kildonan Mennonite Church, 1131 Roch St.

We love all of our customers, but in North Kildonan there’s such a lovely community feel - and with farmers markets ending for the season, we want to know we deliver to that area every 2 months!
❤️ Please TAG A FRIEND in this post that lives in North Kildonan, East Kildonan, Elmwood, Springfield, West Kildonan, Garden City or any of the other nearby neighborhoods!
If you are an existing customer referring a new one, tell them to mention your name in the order notes of your first order and they will receive $10 in store credit (and you get a FREE jar of honey)!

Orders for NOVEMBER 8 due 11:58pm this Thursday, Nov 6, with pick up options of:
1️⃣ WOLSELEY: Portage Ave Church, 1-2pm
2️⃣ NORTH KILDONAN: NK Mennonite Church, 3:00-3:45pm
** To order, see our online store**
🤝Hope to see some new faces there on Saturday and hook your family up with some delicious food!

10/02/2025

✨NEW Beef Bone Broth product just added to the online store! 🦴🍲

Those of you following along know we use a steady supply of bone broths in our kitchen year-round. We use it in soups, stews, chilli, braising dishes, but also drink it straight up with a bit of salt. A nourishing pick-me-up when you need one. We also regularly add broth when cooking rice / pastas / risottos.

Sold frozen, this nutrient-rich broth has been simmered down by us for those of you that just don’t have the time to make it yourself, but value the health & flavour benefits of a broth made using grassfed beef bones, veggies, herbs. No salt added, so you can salt to the level you need. We also don’t skim the fat, so there’s a beautiful layer of it on top that you can choose to incorporate or remove (I’m team Add Fat every time, but you do you)

SAVE 20% in our introductory offer this month!

How do you use bone broths in your kitchen? Tell us below and we’ll select one of you to win a FREE 750g package.

psst: For those of you that do like making your own broth, our marrow/jnuckle bones are listed at 20% off, this month. ‘Stock’ up!! 😉

09/18/2025

If you were ever wondering who the fantastic team of butchers/admin we partner with are- look no further! Thankful for the relationship we have with this family-owned business.

09/15/2025

Just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by our booth at the Market Sunday, to say hello, pick up some food or both!

The Harvest Moon Festival is always such a highlight for Troy & I - we enjoy camping there as a family, taking in music, workshops, good food & drink and general hangs with friends/festival-goers and then it’s all capped off with the market on Sunday. It’s the one and only farmer’s market we do all year.

If you are new, please consider signing up to our email list to hear about our monthly deliveries to Winnipeg (along with , who were also selling there all weekend) - next one is October 9!

Big thanks to all who put work into organizing our favourite lil small-town festival in Clearwater, MB, and to the town’s residents for being gracious hosts as always! 💕

(Thanks to for this shot 📸)

09/08/2025

We are excited to be vendors once more at the Market, on the Sunday Sept 14 only! (10am-3pm)

We’ll have grassfed beef cuts (including lots of pepperettes & jerky for snack emergencies), eggs from our pasture-raised hens, and raw honey. Also, we are saving some of our coveted HONEYCOMB for this event…

Whether you’re attending the Festival (our fave) or local to the area (you don’t need a ticket to attend the market) - we hope you’ll come find us over by the Learning Centre and say hi or stock up, with us and all of the other great vendors.

If you want to guarantee we bring what you want, you can pre-order on our online store, by midnight Thursday Sept 11. Walk-up orders also welcome.

See you there, Mooners!

08/09/2025

🥚 You can now order EGGS from our pasture-raised hens, for pickup in Winnipeg Thursday, August 14 (River Heights)!

🍳 We’ve got lots of eggs to offer right now, in cartons (12) AND flats (30) - either as one-off or sign up for a subscription and SAVE 5%! (Dozens only for subscriptions)

ORDER HERE ——>> https://fresh-roots-farm.localline.ca/fresh-roots-farm-products

🥩🍯You’ll also find our online store stocked with grassfed beef, raw honey (FRESH this month) and other local products!

📣Please spread the word, share with someone you know who might like connecting with farmers directly for their food!
Hope to see you there - orders due August 12 @ 11:59pm!

ORDER HERE ——>> https://fresh-roots-farm.localline.ca/fresh-roots-farm-products

08/05/2025

Try our NEW Ground Beef Sampler Bundle, and SAVE!

A great place to start if you’ve never ordered before, try a lil’ sampler of each of our ground beef blends:
- 2 x 1 lb packages of Regular Ground (90/10 beef:fat, lean)
- 2 x 1 lb packages of Ground Chuck (85/15 beef:fat, great for smash burgers, chilli, etc)
- 2 x 1 lb packages of Primal Ground (includes 1/3 beef liver & heart along with 2/3 regular ground) - very subtle in flavour difference, but you get the extra nutrients!

Order this bundle and save 5% compared to buying them separately.

We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming August 14 delivery at Reh-Fit Centre, along with our friends !

Find this, plus FRESH HONEY, EGGS from our pasture-raised hens (in dozens OR flats!) and many more grassfed beef options in our online store.

07/23/2025

If you know Troy, you know he LOVES trees. Born & raised in the Parkland, Troy was surprised and a bit dismayed at how few trees we have in this ‘bald prairie’ part of the world. He tree planted for years and has worked to plant new trees on our land almost every year we’ve been farming here.

When some of our shelter belts (trees lining pastures/fields) began seeding out Siberian elm seedlings soon after our acquisition of the pasture, we didn’t pay it too much mind. As the trees grew larger, and became established, they began taking up more and more of the limited grazing acres we had. Without wanting to spray them out (Troy was also trying to seed new legumes in these pastures), we tried pulling individual ones out with a skid steer attachment, and discovered that they had massive tap roots that reached deep down into the water table. We realized that this must be why the trees weren’t seemingly competing with the surrounding grass & legumes. In fact, the areas that were shaded by them survived better in drought years. But it would take far too long to remove them this way.

However, it has gotten to the point where driving a quad through them, having cattle graze in amongst them and even just trying to put up a fence line through them became pretty much impossible. See the photos here from this Spring when we had the cows & calves in the area - it was hard to keep track of all animals when they were in here!

With funding assistance from , we were able to hire Jason at Cottonwood Contracting to come in with his handy-dandy tree-mulching contraption to remove a number of these trees. Though this might seem antithetical to our goals of regenerative agriculture, it is crucial in allowing us to better fence and graze the area, as opposed to being almost unmanageable. Plus, we asked them to keep a number of trees to act as shade and maintain some habitat for the animals that appreciate them.

We are thankful to Jason for his hard and precision work, and would highly recommend checking out his business (Cottonwood Contracting) if you need similar tree-management work done. We can now manage this area better moving forward.