Keystone Processors Blog

In our grandparents’ time, living on a 100 mile diet wasn’t that strange. But today we can just as easily buy New Zealand lamb as Canadian, and we can get pineapples and mangoes from the tropics as conveniently as we can get apples from Ontario or BC.

While this gives us tremendous choice at our supermarkets, many of us have come to learn that having access to farm fresh local produce is almost always best. That’s what we believe at Keystone Processors and it’s why we’re in the process of creating a company that will bring Manitoba beef to Manitoba tables. Read more…

Buy Local 100 Mile Diet, Alisa Smith, Food Network, James MacKinnon

The 100-mile diet was a phenomenon that started from two people wanting to do something that was good for the environment and good for them. They decided that for one year they would eat only food that was grown within a 100-mile radius of their home. Eating locally grown or raised food isn’t always easy.

Manitobans have demanded stores carry an increasing variety of local foods over the past few years though. That’s just one of the many reasons why Keystone Processors is coming to market with its Manitoba-raised beef. Read more…

Buy Local, Environment, Manitoba cattle, Nutrition 100 Mile Diet, Keystone Processors