01/03/2025
Thank you for the support you have shown to Prairie Quinoa and its products over the past ten years. However, we have come to the conclusion that Prairie Quinoa will stop its operations as a seller of quinoa and quinoa related products at the end of December 2024.
There are a number of factors, but the primary reason is our inability to establish a dedicated quinoa processing facility in Manitoba and navigate through the regulatory regime required to do so in a timely and cost effective manner. Quinoa grows rather well in Manitoba, but combining the regulatory challenges we have experienced with some health issues and the general reminder that time does move very “swiftly”, and we have concluded its time to end our venture in quinoa at the end of 2024. We have a limited amount of quinoa in our inventory to sell to our best long term customers and then will donate the remaining inventory to Manitoba’s Food Banks in 2025.
One of the real joys of our pursuit of quinoa cultivation and production in Manitoba has been the people we have met, the creative hard-working “local food” producers of Manitoba, the retailers and the local restauranteurs of Manitoba, that have used our product. Our lives have been enriched by the people we have met in the last ‘quinoa decade’ and it is with a degree of sadness that it comes to a conclusion - but it has. December 2024.
Thank you again for your part in our last decade and YES, purchase food from Manitoba’s local producers.
We wish all the very best for you - your business and family in 2025 and may it be a year to celebrate in all that it will bring!
Prairie Quinoa 2025
