Food and Drink Crafters

🚀 Their "Why": To turn a grandmother's prudent preparations into a multigenerational mission, proving that the most nourishing things in life, family, food, and connection, are always worth the time it takes to make them right.

Crafter's Journey: 🟢 The Artisan's Path (5-10 years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Handcrafted dried soup and meal mixes

📍Location: Aylmer, Ontario, Canada (Originated in Duncan, British Columbia)

🔗 Website: https://www.mitchellssoupco.com/ 

🚀 Their "Why": To honour a lifetime of craft and defiance, proving that quality, tradition, and loyalty can not only outlast a firing but can rebuild a community and define a city's taste for generations.

Crafter's Journey: 🟠 Legacy Craft (10+ years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Traditional smoked and cured meats, sausages, and deli products

📍Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

🔗 Website: https://www.winnipegoldcountrysausage.ca/ 

🚀Their "Why" - A family's commitment to honouring Old World taste and handcrafted quality, born from one farmer's desire to never let a good cucumber go to waste.

🟠 Legacy Craft (10+ years Since 1942)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Hand-packed, traditional pickles and preserved vegetables

📍Location: Leamington, Ontario (Note: South shore of Lake Erie, in Essex County.)

🔗 Website: https://www.lakesidepacking.com/ 

🚀 The One-Sentence "Why": To create genuine connection and shared joy through the bold, honest flavours of small-batch condiments made with local heart.

🔵Crafter's Journey:  Finding Their Voice (3-5 years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Small-batch mustards, sauces, and condiments

📍Location: Drayton, Ontario (Operates from a home-based inspected kitchen.)

🔗 Website: https://kellsons.ca/ 

🚀 Their "Why": A family's devotion to land and tradition, channeled by a pastry chef's precision, to capture the untamed, unblended poetry of the Appalachian spring in every bottle.

Crafter's Journey:🟠 Legacy Craft (10+ years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Unblended, single-day maple syrup & maple sugar pastries

📍Location (Production): Saint-Julien, Québec (Boutique): Montréal, Québec

🔗 Website: https://www.domainedes15lots.com/en/ 

🚀 Their "Why": To be a vibrant, all-season hearth for their remote coastal community, sharing the untamed taste of Newfoundland's wild berries and the raw majesty of its icy waters with the wider world.

Crafter's Journey: 🟢 The Artisan's Path (5-10 years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Wild berry jams, preserves, and artisanal food products

📍Location: St. Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador ( On the Great Northern Peninsula)

🔗 Website: https://www.darktickle.com/ 

🚀 Their "Why": To keep the rhythmic heartbeat of a 145-year-old waterwheel alive, preserving the tangible connection to the land, community, and ingenuity that built the Similkameen Valley.

Crafter's Journey: 🟠 Legacy Craft (10+ years)

⭐Stone-milled, waterwheel-powered heritage flour

📍Location: Keremeos, British Columbia (In the Similkameen Valley, on the Upper Bench Road)

🔗 Website: https://www.oldgristmill.ca/ 

🚀 Their "Why": To keep the joy and craft of her Aunt Gloria's kitchen alive, turning childhood lessons into a wildly creative line of jams and hot sauces that dare to defy tradition.

Crafter's Journey: 🔵 Finding Their Voice (3-5 years)

⭐Main Handcrafted Product: Artisan jams, jellies, and hot sauces

📍Location:  Langdon, Alberta

🔗 Website: https://www.twistedcanning.com/