It all started 12 years ago with owners Tim and Jacqui Schmucker supplying fresh meats (sourced from Mennonite farmers) to their friends, and friends of their friends, and so on (using someone else’s shop as the pick-up site), until, with a burgeoning customer base, they opened a storefront of their own. The Schmuckers have created a network of Mennonite and Amish farming families in the Kitchener-Waterloo region who produce meats that are hormone- and drug-free, raised “as naturally as possible.” There’s dry-aged beef, lamb, pork, chicken, elk, fish, and fresh or smoked turtle—all from Ontario.