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December 15, 2024

We are the FIRST PLACE winner in four categories: Best Butcher/Meat shop ~ Best Organic Food Store ~ Best Specialty Food Store ~ Best Independent Grocery Store!

Thank you for your support since 1996!

October 27, 2024

Our Ontario pasture-raised BISON are raised by a buffalo ranch family in Grey County. Their 100% purebred plains buffalo are free-range and 100% grass-fed. Over 30 years of experience guarantee you the finest premium grade of buffalo meat products!

May 21, 2024

Our weekly sales are part of our commitment to you to help deal with the increasing cost of food. Sometimes the sale helps us balance inventory. Other times it is part of our efforts to make top quality local food a bit more affordable. 

While the major supermarkets' profits have increased...

November 27, 2023

On their idylic small farm 45 minutes north of Toronto, three generations of the Schmucker-Braun family raise pastured free-range chicken with local feed. From Spring through Fall.

Whole and parts:

  • Breasts, boneless.
  • Thighs, boneless.
  • Drumsticks.
  • Legs with Thighs.
  • Wings.
  • Carcasses...
October 28, 2023

We partner with Ontario Amish and Mennonite farmers along with local organic growers to provide you with amazingly fresh and delicious sustainably-produced fruits and vegetables, grown without all the pesticides you've come to expect in supermarket produce, and close to home so they are picked at...

October 8, 2023

We've been awarded FIRST place in:

Independent Grocery Store

Specialty Food Store

Butcher/Meat Shop

Second place in Organic Food Store

Thank you Toronto!

September 10, 2023

Learn more about our specially fed, drug-free, and pastured free-range turkeys.

Sunshine, fresh air, healthy feed and natural foraging make for happy, healthy turkeys — and happy diners around your Thanksgiving table!

At Fresh From The Farm, we offer two varieties of turkey, both from small...

July 29, 2023

Get ready to ignite your taste buds this summer with a sizzling BBQ feast! Schmucker's Fresh From The Farm is your go-to destination for top-quality meats from Amish and Mennonite family farmers with whom we’ve had direct partnerships for two decades, and who raise top-quality meats without using...

July 1, 2023

We recognise that we live and work in territories of the Wyandot, Haudenosaunee, and Michi Saugig Nations, and we are profoundly grateful to them and other indigenous peoples who have cared for this land from time immemorial.

As beneficiaries of a violent history of colonisation, we acknowledge...

May 1, 2023

Our continued commitment to you is that we will never "price gouge." We only raise prices when our farmers and suppliers raise their prices to us, and even then, we are not passing all the increases on to you.

So instead of the "soaring markups" you read in the news, many of our markups are going...