For two people who grew up in the city, they sure seem like they belong in the country. With two young children, Maryn and Layla, both Stu Fleischaker and Nancy Cantafio are full time homesteaders, full time parents and full time farmers. Nancy also runs a bakery - all part of their integral system of sustainability and self-sufficiency.
They entertain guests in their cozy kitchen with entirely home made, home-grown meal – from the mustard to the cheese, they produce it all at Speerville Farm. This family eats what they produce, and they successfully produce extra so that sixty other customers can do the same! Everything is wholesome, fresh and delicious.
Nancy & Stu run a small, heavily diversified farm, with products ranging from eggs and meat to vegetables and homemade mustard, they offer a variety of products to suit your needs. They function as a home delivery system, delivering to the Woodstock and Fredericton areas. They produce organic baking done in a wood-fired oven (naturally leavened bread), granola, organic mustard, applesauce, meat, cheese, and a variety of vegetables.
Stu Fleishchaker is a local legend: in partnership with George Berthault, he started Speerville Flour Mill in 1982. He’s been farming since the 1970’s, and retired from running the Mill in 2003 to dedicate more time to his farm and family. Stu is also an organic pioneer in New Brunswick, founding the Maritime Certified Organic Growers Certification body: the first in the Maritimes! He also built his beautiful home from local lumber milled up the road, and since, practically every other building on the farm has been built by Stu using locally milled lumber.
When asked why he decided to farm organically, Stu answers without hesitating, “if I wanted to farm conventionally, I’d have to go to school to learn to do it, as it was, I went to the school of life, observing the relationships of the world around me, and learning from existing systems.”
While giving tours of their lush farm, the girls love to pipe in to tell you the names of the animals, or that their favourite dessert is strawberries, while Stu discusses the working partnerships he has with his farm and farm animals, detailing how every part of his farm serves several purposes, from the structures to the animals, to the pastures, and trees, everything is inexorably linked. He is proud to be a mixed farm in a day and age where “specialty crops” are the norm.
Lovely and intense, they produce all they’re able while supporting the education and experience of their two lovely girls, Maryn and Layla.
Stu was the 2001 recipient of the Gerrit Loo Award.
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Product
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Description
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Availability
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| Organic Baking |
Multi-grain bread, red fife (heritage wheat), rye bread, whole wheat bread, multi-grain pitas, maple granola |
Year round
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| Organic Beef |
Hamburger, stew meat, oven roast, pot roast, marinating steak, t-bone steak, porterhouse steak, prime rib steak, sirloin steak, 10lb box of mixed beef |
Year round
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| Organically Raised Pork |
Roasts, garlic sausage (bulk meat), chops, bacon |
Year round
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| Organic Chicken |
Whole chicken, chicken breast, chicken thighs, chicken wings |
Year round
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| Organic Eggs |
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Year round
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| Organic Vegetables |
Potatoes, carrots (#1 & #2), beets, rutabagas, green cabbage, onions, garlic, squash |
Fall & winter months primarily
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| Organic Fruit |
Frozen strawberries, apple sauce, apple butter |
Year round
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| Organic Dairy Products |
Mild cheddar cheese, old cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, swiss cheese, unsalted butter (sold frozen) |
Year round
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| Organic Processed Goods |
Whole wheat pasta (penne, spirals, mini-tubes), old fashioned mustard, zesty mustard, carrot juice, hummus, pickled beets, sauerkraut (sold frozen) |
Year round
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| Organic Dried Herbs |
Parsley, celery leaf, sage, basil, oregano |
Year round
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