A competition through the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), the #SmallBiz Love contest, ran from June 10 to 22 and invited consumers to mention their favourite small businesses over Twitter and Instagram. As one of the four winning businesses, Island Hill Farm is being featured in a national campaign to celebrate Small Business Week this month.
Island Hill Farm “is a great example of a small business diversifying the products and services it provides its customers,” says Minister of Economic Development and Tourism Heath MacDonald. “It’s routinely open to the public, and that allows residents an opportunity to learn about our primary industries. It’s also supplying goat’s milk to a local cheesemaker and hosting summer camps for kids.”
Flory Sanderson and her husband Rob have been operating the Island Hill Farm for nearly five years. The farm has gradually expanded from a goat-farming business to a popular petting farm hosting school tours, summer camps, corporate team-building events, birthday parties and weddings. The most recent development out of Island Hill Farm is soap made from goat’s milk.
Sanderson also has a distribution deal for her goat’s milk with local P.E.I. chef Jeff McCourt who uses it to make gouda at Glasgow Glen Farm.
“A participant in the province’s Future Farmer program, Flory Sanderson has taken what she has learned through the program and her own ambition to develop a successful commercial farm operation,” said Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Alan McIsaac. “It is nationwide accomplishments such as this that help affirm Prince Edward Island as Canada’s Food Island.”
To learn more about Island Hill Farm, visit www.facebook.com/IslandHillFarm.
