Bridget's Green Living: Look for Speerville Flour Mill products (if you live in Atlantic Canada)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Look for Speerville Flour Mill products (if you live in Atlantic Canada)

For those of you not familiar with Speerville FLour Mill, they're located right here in New Brunswick. They mill Maritime-grown wheat but also deserve much credit for their efforts in developing a home-grown (literally) market for local organic products. They source the best quality organic products from as close to home as possible. Take a look at their catalogue for more info.

If you're interested in their products let me know. I run a whole food buying group through Speerville Flour Mill, making it easy to shop from their catalog, get bulk rates and free shipping. We have access to a greater variety of Speerville products than is available in local stores and in larger sizes (saves on packaging and lugging from the grocery store and is less expensive).

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Hi! I was wondering if anyone could tell me any info about Hope Farm in St. Norbert...I know they also sell Speerville flour mill products and at one point were delivering veggie boxes and things to people's homes. I have been trying to contact them via e-mail without any luck. Just wondering if anyone knew if they were still in business or not as I would like to purchase speerville products as well as some local cheese, veg and meat...we are just starting to make the changes toward greener living and would love any info on where to get local products.; January 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM

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