Agriculture

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An obsession with being the best lawn care company in Canada

Agriculture, Environment, General 0:21:27

James Szojka started Yard Dawgs Lawn Care in 2014 as a tuition pay-off plan. Being allergic to grass, it was supposed to be a couple of years and summer only job.

But after graduating from university, he decided to give the business a full year of his attention to see what would happen as he did love the industry and building a team. He went all in on the company’s niche: making lawns green, weed free and healthy. Fast forward to 2024, the company is operating with 17 trucks, and it is planning to take care of over 6,000 clients this upcoming season. He’s become obsessed with being the best lawn care company in the city, and now has the goal of being Canada’s largest lawn care company. During the winter months and now throughout the year he also runs “The Dirt Life” channel on YouTube, which focuses on coaching others to in starting their own lawn care companies.

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Taking the lessons from the farm to run a successful business

Agriculture, Food & Drink, Health and Wellness 0:19:58

Nathasha Vandenhurk is CEO and co-founder of Three Farmers Foods Inc., a privately held corporation based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is a trusted brand known for providing foods with natural goodness. Functioning as an integrated organization, Three Farmers delivers nourishing food in a sustainable manner, adhering to the principles of Canadian farming. Their products are minimally processed to showcase their inherent nutritional value and taste, ensuring that consumers can enjoy delicious food that is genuinely wholesome. Dedicated to promoting healthier lifestyles and encouraging better food choices, Three Farmers Foods is a forward-thinking food manufacturer with a strong focus on utilizing locally sourced ingredients to enhance food security within Canada. Driven by a vision of a more nutritious future, the company remains committed to crafting minimally processed snacks that empower consumers to prioritize their well-being.

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Securing tomorrow’s food supply today

Agriculture, Business, Food & Drink, Tech 0:48:48

In conversation with CFO & co-founder Daniel Cruz and CEO Jay Kallu of Sea to Sky Farms (https://seatoskyfarms.com), an agtech company with a massively transformative purpose – ensuring food security for all. Sea to Sky has their own vertical farms technology in BC and AB, Canada; and offers branding and consulting solutions to land owners and farmers with development of infrastructure, product intelligence, sales, distribution and business growth.

In this podcast, we talk about food production evolution and the opportunity to use less water, less land, diversified labour, less energy, no pesticides or fertilizers to grow fresh, nutritious and reliable produce for local markets. And, we share 3 top ideas to exponentially accelerate to 50% food security in Canada.

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Devenir le seul joueur majeur dans le terreautage et l’ensemencement dans la province de Québec

Agriculture, Environment 00:34:25

Entrepreneur depuis plus de 18 ans, Philippe Goulet est visionnaire et polyvalent. Soucieux du travail bien fait et des chiffres, c’est un homme d’action qui aime être au cœur des décisions.

Co-fondateur du Boucan Boucherie et Traiteur, il a occupé le poste de président de 2017 à 2022 avant de vendre ses actions pour se consacrer à son entreprise en pleine expansion, Biotero.

L’idée de l’entreprise Biotero a germé dans son esprit alors qu’il était propriétaire d’une entreprise de paysagement et d’entretien extérieur à Lac-Beauport.

Suite au moratoire interdisant les engrais et les pesticides près des bassins versants, ses clients lui demandaient une alternative pour leur pelouse. Après des recherches, il a découvert ce procédé bien connu en Europe et utilisé sur les terrains de golf. En voulant l’appliquer, il a réalisé que les coûts de production étaient très élevés donc très dispendieux pour le client. C’est ainsi qu’il a imaginé la machinerie nécessaire pour le concept Biotero, le seul joueur majeur dans le domaine du terreautage et de l’ensemencement dans la province de Québec

Sa plus grande force en affaires est la gestion de la production et le contrôle des ressources. Pour lui, l’efficacité est primordiale. Sa meilleure qualité humaine est sans aucun doute son naturel communicatif. Il a réussi à se construire un énorme réseau de gens d’affaires et d’intrants professionnels.

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Pour l’amour des sols et la culture régénératrice, découvrez cet artiste désigner de la biodiversité

Agriculture, Business, Education, Health and Wellness 00:37:13

Depuis 2007, Sébastien Angers pratique l’agriculture de conservation biologique sur sa ferme à Ste-Monique de Nicolet . Il est propriétaire de la Ferme de l’Odyssée.

Agronome de formation, sa passion profonde a toujours été d’optimiser le potentiel de la santé des sols. Il cherche à minimiser ses interventions et ainsi aider la terre à retrouver sa biodiversité naturelle. Pour se faire, il a su miser sur des designs culturaux novateurs, redéfinissant ainsi le visage de l’agriculture au Québec. C’est un peu comme si on faisait de la permaculture à grande échelle.

En usant d’ingéniosité, il a su trouver et adapter des équipements spécialisés lui permettant de tester un maximum de cultures de couverture différentes, et ainsi, maximiser le potentiel de synergies des plantes.

Curieux et créatif, son laboratoire à ciel ouvert lui permet d’être l’artiste accomplie qu’il est aujourd’hui.

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Tackling unexpected challenges with fearless determination

Agriculture, Construction, Design, Food & Drink, Tech 0:24:13

Nicole Matos is a Metis woman, wife, mother of three, President of Rivet Construction and Founder of Oonnie Food Technologies. Leading her construction company for over a decade and now founding a food tech company, Nicole loves to tackle unexpected challenges with fearless determination. You will often hear Nicole say that her successes have mostly come from trying everything the wrong way first.

As an indigenous business Rivet is open to talking about potential partnerships or joint ventures. Rivet currently operates mostly in Alberta, however has a satellite office in Kelowna and some presence in SK. Rivet’s focus is commercial construction, commercial preventative maintenance and design build.

Oonnie is Farmers Market online – it gives you an opportunity to sell your products all day everyday without ever having to set up a physical booth or stand in the rain. Oonnie is like Etsy for food. Oonnie provides a platform and tools to support and help food producers grow their business.

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Solving Agriculture’s Puzzles – Respect the Past, Grow the Future

Agriculture, Business 00:22:23

Kristjan Hebert has combined his love of finance with his passion for farming. Born and raised on a family farm in Saskatchewan, Kristjan obtained his CPA with Myers Norris Penny and then returned to the Moosomin area to farm with his family. Today, he is the managing partner of Hebert Grain Ventures (HGV), a large grain and oilseed operation in Saskatchewan. At HGV he enjoys solving agriculture’s puzzles in order to fulfill HGV’s purpose of “Respect the past, Grow the future.”

Widely thought of as one of the brightest young minds in agriculture today, Kristjan received the Top Producer Award in 2020 and was recently honored as a Climate Positive leader in agriculture.

He is also the co-founder of Maverick Ag – providing custom-designed lending, accounting and insurance solutions to producers.

Kristjan enjoys coaching hockey and traveling with his wife Theresa, son Bentley and daughter Ivy.

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This green ammonia production system will change our world

Agriculture, Environment 00:28:28

Ian Clifford is CEO of FuelPositive Corporation, a leading Canadian cleantech company. Ian has had a career pathway filled with various ventures, including co-founding businesses and now leading FuelPositive, but what has driven all his career decisions has been his love for environmentalism, technology, and marketing. Ian’s passion is advocating for change in some of our most polluting and challenging sectors. FuelPositive is committed to providing commercially viable and sustainable, “cradle to cradle” clean energy solutions, including carbon-free ammonia (NH3), for use across a broad spectrum of industries and applications. Decentralizing the production of key growing components like green ammonia for farmers is the key to sustainability and fighting climate change. If farmers produce green ammonia on their own farms — then they are in control and they are using a carbon-free ammonia production system. Today most use grey ammonia and it is a serious polluter because of the way it is produced with fossil fuels and because it has to be shipped thousands of miles to get to most farms.

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Découvrir les microorganismes avec la fermentation

Agriculture, Education, Environment, Food & Drink 00:33:04

Jean-Luc Henry est un éducateur et entrepreneur spécialisé dans les solutions écologiques. Depuis près de 20 ans, Jean-Luc s’intéresse particulièrement aux domaines de l’autonomie locale, de la production et de la consommation alimentaire durable (permaculture, agriculture à petite échelle et fermentations). Il a créé et cofondé des projets et des entreprises comme Ekopédia, le Mouvement des Artisans du Changement, Mycelium, et dirige aujourd’hui l’entreprise Révolution Fermentation.

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Farm-to-table and the growing passion for gathering around the table

Agriculture, Events & Entertainment, Food & Drink 00:33:22

Chanelle Belliveau’s Farm-to-Table NB was a beautiful project built out of her work experience and a growing passion for gathering around the table.

With a background in holistic nutrition and culinary nutrition, Chanelle was deeply passionate about making the connection between where our food comes from, and how it got to our plate. This lead her to work on an organic farm, to make that connection, learn, and finalize the cycle of farm-to-table.

Chanelle has been teaching cooking classes locally in Moncton and Cap-Pele, NB, since 2016.

Cooking classes themes and recipes varies from month to month, all with the purpose of highlighting local ingredients, farmers and producers.

Her team’s farm-to-table outdoor dining experiences only started last year, but with a bang! They hosted our first dinner in beautiful Cocagne, NB, with a small intimate group of 25 people. The goal with the outdoor dining experiences is really to show guests directly where their food comes from, and then experience the ultimate farm-to-table meal, enjoying the ingredients collected from the farm during dinner.

Farm-to-Table NB is focused on serving New-Brunswickers – currently in the Greater Moncton area and surroundings – but looking to expand to various locations all across New Brunswick in the new year!

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