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To Kenny and Ann Mutch, quality is all about purity. Their family farm, Top Line Swine, Inc., located in Earnscliffe, Prince Edward Island, specializes in mininal disease breeding stock, which they sell locally and internationally. Their market hogs contain no antibiotics and no growth hormones, and they use a purebred Duroc line known for extra flavour and tender meat.
Running Top Line Swine, Inc. is a family affair with the Mutches. Kenny and Ann work the farm with their three children - Krista, Sarah, and Jake - along with one additional full-time employee. All are excited to be part of the community of farmers helping farmers and being able to sell their pork directly to the customer, whatever their specific requests may be.
Kenny and Ann\s commitment to producing top-quality pork is a priority for all involved and they take a strong sense of pride in knowing they are raising the finest hogs possible, and providing customers with a delicious, safe, and healthy product.
John & Aukje Annema
John and Aukje emigrated from Holland to Canada in 1980 and married in 1981. Both being of farming backgrounds, the couple decided to try farming in Prince Edward Island and bought an existing hog farm in Oyster Bed Bridge. Starting with 50 sows in 1981, they ended up with 180 by 2007.
With the hog industry declining, John and Aukje decided to start raising beef instead of hogs. So the barns were renovated and today the couple has a feed lot with over 200 cattle. Together with involvement of their kids, Sid & Melissa, Marianna, Derek and Christopher and their full-time help Marinus they work hard to provide a top quality product.
The Annema\s are proud to be part of the farming community on the Island, and also proud to be offering their beef, anti-biotic and growth hormone free to the public, through Riverview Country Market.
By raising and selling their beef local, they hope to keep the farm in the family for the next generation. They take pride and effort in bringing safe products to the customers, grown and raised on PEI.
Dave & Rose Viaene
Dave and Rose Viaene are third generation farmers who operate a farm in Oceanview, near Belfast, Prince Edward Island. Their farm covers 600 acres, 25 of whichare specifically for vegetables. All their vegetables are sold at Riverview Country Market in Charlottetown or at The Chuckwagon Farm Market in Belfast.
Giving customers the opportunity to directly purchase fresh, top-quality vegetables is what motives the couple, along with the knowledge they are supporting family, friends and fellow farmers. They are also proactive about constantly improving their production and have been involved in nutrient management, integrated pest management and programs like On Farm Food Safety and the Environment Farm Plan. These measures and programs help ensure the vegetables they sell are of the highest caliber.
Dave and Rose are passionate about all aspects of their farm, business and life in general. To them, the best part of farming, explained Dave, "is when we break the ground open in the spring of the year, and the smell of fresh earth after months of sleep. The ground is ready again to place our seeds so we can see them bloom and then share them with you."
Lammert & Sharon Wolters
After getting married in 1986 , Lammert and Sharon bought a farm in Millcove, PEI. Lammert and Sharon both came from farming families so the choice was natural. Before long, the Wolters family was blessed to include 4 children, Dirk, Matthias, Katrina and Eli.
As the family grew, so did the need for the farm to grow. Barns were built and their original herd of 70 sows grew to 150. The family works hard together raising quility products even during the highs and lows in the farming industry.
The Wolters family have taken on new challenges to be able to keep on farming. One being the raising of some fresh chickens to supply the meat shop.
No matter what animals the Wolters family farms, they have a high degree of Standard, "Only the best will do". They are committed to supplying Islanders with products that are high in quality, safely raised, and of course great tasting.