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FIELD
TRIP
26
The Business of
Ontario Agriculture
Better Farming
December 2016
Erin Joron (left), Martin Littkemann (middle), and Darrien Moore
discuss a member of the herd that Joron and Moore feel is
behaving in an unusual way and in need of attention.
B’Elanna
in the yard
at Ontario
Water Buffalo
Co., north of
Stirling.
According to Littkemann, customers showed up regularly
at the family’s back door, asking about buffalo meat and
cheese products. It became obvious there was a solid
business opportunity in opening a retail outlet. The Buff
Stuff store opened in the summer of 2014 and is operated
for regular weekly hours under the watchful eye of
Vanessa Shorey. Here, Shorey shows some of the store’s
cheese products.
Left to right, Erin Joron, Caitlin West, Lori Smith, Martin Littkemann, Darrien Moore, Jeffrey Smith, Vanessa Shorey,
and Derek Bauman with Alfalfa (the water buffalo). Alfalfa may be Yvette’s understudy as the farmmascot because she
insisted on being part of the group photograph.