The craftsmen of here in words
Cidres Fleuri
In 2017, Julien Niquet (the entrepreneur behind the Glutenberg and Oshlag breweries) teamed up with sommelier Justine Therrien to start their own vineyard, and they set out to find the perfect piece of land. They finally nabbed an idyllic spot atop Frelighsburg’s fabled Joy Hill, in the Eastern Townships. The estate was dotted with 5,000 apple trees, and the duo saw it as a great opportunity: they would continue to plant grapes for their vineyard, Maison agricole Joy Hill, producing cider from the apples until the vines were mature enough to produce grapes. And voilà, Fleuri was born! Read More...
Missiska
Missiska Farm raises one of the best herds of Jersey cows in Quebec, certified for A2 beta-casein protein, with its anti-inflammatory properties meaning it is more digestible for humans! Producing cheeses, milks and yogurts of exceptional quality, the farm takes the utmost care in every stage of production, from herd genetics to cheese making and farming practices. Dairy products made with rich, nutritious Jersey cow milk are well tolerated by customers who do not consume any other cow dairy products. It’s a delicious and healthy alternative!
AquaVerti Farms
Based in Montreal, AquaVerti Farms is a Quebec leader in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). The two founders launched their business in 2017, and by 2021 it was full steam ahead. The size of their farm tripled in 2021 to offer local consumers a greater volume and variety of lettuce, kale and other salad mixes. All AquaVerti quality products are grown responsibly and locally, year-round. Read More...
Gom.mee
At the birth of their son, who suffered from severe eczema, Sylvie Gauvreau and Christian Ethier decided to create a line of skincare products for sensitive skin. Coming from backgrounds in the cosmetic industry, they combined their experiences to become pioneers in products for young children with sensitive skin.
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Silknsoak
Here is a Quebec-based company born from the passion of two sisters for wellness. Founded in 2021, Silknsoak transforms every shower into a unique sensory experience with their shower steamers.
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Nälkä
Discover Nälkä: the perfect blend of protein, organic, and local for a healthy and dynamic diet. Faced with the daily challenges of balancing a healthy diet with a fast-paced life, including work, family, and lack of time, Déborah and Simon have found THE solution. Passionate and partners in life as well as in entrepreneurship, they have identified this essential need: to eat healthily without sacrificing quality for speed. Read More...
When their son was born with severe eczema, Sylvie Gauvreau and Christian Ethier decided to develop a line of treatment for reactive skin. Having both worked in the cosmetic industry, they combined their respective experience and pioneered innovative products that help treat kids with sensitive skin. GOM.MEE gets its name from the scent that won a popular vote amongst children: bubble gum.
Products developed by the Chambly-based company are of exceptionally high quality, and stand out due to their ultra-gentle formula, which is allergen-free and doesn’t contain toxic ingredients or irritants of any kind. For a Christmas spent in pure softness, go with GOM.MEE.
Umami
Umami Ramen & Izakaya, which opened in the summer of 2019, is Montreal’s first fully vegan ramen restaurant. Umami makes its own ramen noodles from organic wheat with an imported Japanese noodle-making machine. Umami Épicerie was founded to meet the growing demand for the company’s products and is dedicated to making Japanese and vegan products for grocery stores and restaurants. Their ramen noodles, udon noodles, Gyozas and more are made in the Plateau Mont-Royal using high-quality, mostly organic ingredients. Read More...
Les Pétards
For the past 10 years, Catherine Therriault, founder of Les Pétards, has been on a mission to showcase the incredible potential of local ingredients across Canada, such as seaweed from Gaspésie, maple syrup from Quebec, pink salt from Saskatchewan and glacial clay from British Columbia. Read More...
Domaine Harrington
Domaine Harrington is surrounded by 400 acres of nature, and this is where an idea to create delicious drinks with unique flavours came to fruition in 2020. Nestled in a corner of paradise deep in the Rouge River Valley, this family business uses the incredible diversity of the boreal forest to create unique flavour profiles. The forest provides an open-air lab where truly incredible FLAVOUR can be found. Read More...
Les Jardins A. Guérin et Fils inc.
Founded in 1960, Les Jardins A. Guérin et Fils inc. stands out as a Canadian leader in radish production. This third-generation family business operates sustainable farming in Sherrington’s fertile, black soil. They grow traditional red, mixed and French radishes, all available with or without leaves. Read More...
Ferme De La Berceuse
Robin Fortin’s improbable farming adventure began as an experiment, “just to see,” on one-and-a-quarter acres of land in 1998. Twenty-three years later, the almost-twenty flourishing acres of Ferme De La Berceuse—located in Wickham, Central Quebec, and certified organic since forever—are still going strong.
Gen V
Gen V’s story is first and foremost one of family, a clan with a passion for modern agriculture and entrepreneurship. At the heart of this story are the Terraults, with Valérie Terrault now running the family business with her brother Simon and her cousin Francis. Generation V embodies a generation’s desire to grow vegetables with respect to people and the environment. It's a green movement that sees a future filled with life and more fresh, real food for everyone. Their greenhouse products are thriving, grown true to their values of promoting sustainable agriculture and respect for communities and the environment. Gen V is the vision of a new generation, serving up vitality in every crunchy vegetable and vibrant green.
Ferme d’Hiver
Ferme d’Hiver innovates all year long! Combining the latest developments in smart agriculture with the expertise of market gardeners, Ferme d’Hiver uses a large-scale approach to produce local, pesticide-free strawberries in the dead of winter! Read More...
Jean-Philippe Cyr founder of La Cuisine de Jean-Philippe Boisbriand
My mandate is to democratize vegan cuisine in quebec. We often have the false impression that it is bland or tasteless, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Read More...
Ooya
OOYA Infusions is the story of two university besties who shared a thirst for great things. Always on the look out for new projects, Charline and Mathilde have long been fans of energy drinks to help them cope with their hectic workloads. OOYA infusions was born of their desire to bring to market an alternative to artificial energy drinks, offering a healthy, responsible and natural way to consume caffeine—something unique and refreshing! OOYA is an organic energizing infusion that combines the benefits of natural drinks, the superpowers of guayusa and boost of traditional energy drinks. OOOOOOOYA!
LOOP Mission: leader in the circular economy
The Rescue Mission
LOOP Mission is a local circular economy company that fights against food waste by rescuing the unloved from the food industry. In short, they save perfectly imperfect fruits and vegetables that have been rejected because they didn't have the right size, shape, or shelf life required for regular distribution. The members of the Rescue Squad transform them into delicious cold-pressed juices, wellness shots, probiotic sodas, smoothies, lemonades, sour beers, radlers, and iced teas. Read More...
Les Filles fattoush
This social enterprise was born out of a desire to share Syria’s culinary culture and provide job opportunities to newly arrived women. These opportunities support them in their quest for autonomy and emancipation as they integrate into and become active members of our society. Working as a collective creates bonds, boosts self-esteem and benefits the women, their families and the local community. Les Filles Fattoush strongly believes in food as a core ingredient to building social connections and openness to others. The kitchen brings people together, and everyone benefits. Read More...
La Transformerie—the art of eliminating food waste
La Transformerie is an NPO dedicated to eliminating food waste through positive and effective solutions with various food network partners.
Guillaume Cantin, Managing Director and Co-Initiator
The organization is led by dynamic chef Guillaume Cantin, the popular winner of the Radio-Canada show Les Chefs!. His high-profile commitment to fighting food waste has helped breathe new life into the circular economy movement and inspired several local initiatives to get involved. Read More...
Aux Vivres
Aux Vivres is synonymous with Montreal veganism. It was the first 100% vegan restaurant in Montreal. Its original location is still going on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, and a Westmount branch opened a few years ago. Aux Vivres Cuisine launched in 2015 to bring innovative and delicious dishes to the ready-to-eat market. Rachelle Béry carries the famous Dragon Bowl along with wraps, signature salad dressings, cookies, and marinated tempeh in a variety of flavours. Read More...
Fun Oats Gruo
Ever since she was little, Josiane Rochon has loved her oatmeal. Then one day, she wondered why not turn her passion from an expense into an income—and we couldn’t be happier!
In May 2016, she started the company Gruo, setting up a seasonal stand at Jean-Talon Market in Montreal. Today, the company offers a surprising range of flavours as well as reinvented classics, using 100% natural ingredients, no refined sugar, dehydrated fruit and, of course, organic oats from Quebec!
Mériane Labrie founder of Madame Labriski Quebec
My dream is to help the quebec food industry evolve and contribute to the local economy for a long time to come. Read More...
Katell Burot and Philippe D'Haucourt co-owners and founders of Carrément Tarte Montréal
Being of breton origin, pie dough is sacred in our family. Read More...
Michael Cantin president and founder of SNÖ Trois-Rivières
I love to make people's lives easier by offering a local, allergen-free frozen dessert that everyone can eat. Read More...
Marie-michèle lemoine vice president of marketing for patience fruit & co. Villeroy
Nature has its own rhythm and in order to harvest the best that nature has to offer, we must respect it and be patient. Read More...
Pur Pop
Developed in Sherbrooke, Pur Pop frozen bars are the frosty brainchild of Marie-Ève Laprise. Read More...
Luc Tellier owner of Jardins Picoudi Saint-Robert
What moves me the most is to see all the things we do on a daily basis to create a product that people can enjoy at home. Read More...
Gérald Golay owner of SOS Fondue Val-David
At the very beginning, we operated like a pizzeria: we were called at 5 P.M. and we delivered to people's homes the same evening. Fondue is a good mood, it's comforting. Read More...
Ariane Beaumont and Jérôme Couture co-owners of Arhoma Montreal
What we are passionate about is feeding people. To be part of people's lives, quite simply. Read More...
The Lamb Affair
Did you hear? A pair of friends who were passionate about food and innovation cooked up The Lamb Affair. They wanted to process ovine meat in their own unique way. With great attention to optimizing each of its products, The Lamb Affair makes this meat accessible to family cooks and gourmet chefs alike. Read More...
Damien Girard co-founder of Viandes Biologiques de Charlevoix Baie-Saint-Paul
What brings me the greatest joy is to go to my farms, to cultivate cereals and to work the land. It is from this passion that the company was born. Read More...
François Cardinal founder of Vegeat Longueuil
Buying local is good for the whole community. We can be proud in quebec to have such good local products! Read More...
Belov
Belov is a proud Quebec start-up! These two mumtrepreneurs are keen to raise nutritional standards for babies and ultimately ensure that future generations grow up healthy.
They currently have two product lines on the market: textured meals in 5 flavours, and textured, iron-enriched oat blends in 4 flavours. These first-of-their-kind products were created to meet parents’ needs, making meal times easier and guilt-free with quality, ready-to-eat meals. Read More...
Selv Rituel
On her travels, former stylist and photographer Sarah Laroche learned how to live life a bit slower, allowing her to take better care of herself and others. As an ambassador of slow living, she wanted to create opportunities for a slower pace of life and well-being for her loved ones as well as share her passion for the bathing ritual. This is how Selv was born.
The brand offers a wide selection of high-quality bath, shower and body products primarily handmade in Montreal from carefully selected, eco-friendly ingredients. Selv offers time for yourself and your rituals—slow living, pure and simple.
Chanv
Since 2004, Chanv has been making a name for itself in the skin care industry. In 2017, Marie-Ève Parenteau and Dany Lefebvre revamped the company and selected hemp as the plant of the future. When they acquired Chanv, they introduced innovative changes and surrounded themselves with a remarkable team of experts dedicated to unlocking and maximizing the properties of hemp. Read More...
Bleu lavande
Bleu Lavande is, first and foremost, a beautiful love story between local artisans and a blue flower with exceptional virtues. And at the heart of this adventure lies Nathalie Nasseri, general manager and co-owner of Bleu Lavande.
With her dedicated team, this passionate entrepreneur has one mission: to help people discover the therapeutic benefits of lavender via a collection of unique products. All of the company’s products are free of parabens, petroleum, and artificial fragrances. Bleu Lavande creates natural products that respect the environment and animals. The quality standard? Their lavender essential oil is certified ISO 3515, seeing as it is made from 100% Lavandula Angustifolia (lavender fine).
Croké
Determined not to let her son’s allergies prevent him from tasting life to the fullest, Chantal Tremblay founded Croké in 2016, a culinary shop that specializes in allergen- and gluten-free food products that are also mostly vegan. Wanting to alleviate the fears of those living with allergies, as well as those of their families, Chantal offers a wide range of delicious, locally-made specialties from her kitchen in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures: prepared meals, cakes, baked goods and much more.
As she so eloquently puts it, “life is beautiful, you have to bite into it with vitality, freedom and light-heartedness!”. Well, it goes without saying that we love biting into her hypoallergenic Yule logs as well.
La Biscuitery
Enjoying cookies as a family is one of the fondest memories that Rudy and Yoanna share. Since co-founding La Biscuitery in 2015, they’ve been baking delicious treats - cookies and macaroons- in their confectionery shop using only the finest ingredients, ensuring that quality, a respect for tradition, and the love of a job well done comes through in every bite.
Authentic, homemade family recipes, passed down from one generation to thenext, crafted for the pure enjoyment of our taste buds!
Jardins d'Ambroise
In 2015, at Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare in the heart of the Lanaudière region, Julie and her spouse Sébastien founded the Jardins d’Ambroise. Offering fresh, healthy and organic vegetables is their mission.
In their organic vegetable farm, they grow a wide variety of vegetables including lettuce, squash, garlic and tomatoes, without GMO or synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
In order to preserve biodiversity and to reduce the incidence of fungal diseases, Julie and Sébastien practice crop rotation, which means alternating crops in the same field, from year to year. Because providing high-quality vegetables is their priority.
Domaine Féodal
The affection that Lise and Guy have for each other is palpable. But their love for cheese is equally evident.
Offering a wide variety of cheese made 100% from milk from Quebec cows, Guy and Lise are passionate, creative and ambitious. That’s what gives the rich and delicate taste that we find in their cheese. Renowned in Quebec and other countries, cheese from Lise and Guy is truly their pride and joy.
Thank you to our local artisans for inspiring our exquisite new year's eve
In 2020, the ideal feast is made of local flavours! Rachelle Béry introduces you to 11 artisans who work tirelessly to offer us fresh and real food, summer and winter.