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bouquet she sells at the market.
"People fight over the flowers," she
says. Many order in advance to make
sure there will be a bouquet left when
they get to market. She has even been
taking orders for weddings.
Her market experience has
helped the Bollinger family
choose a new path for their
farm. They have beef and veal
but their product of the future
is wild boar. They bought 14 sows
from a nearby farmer who was going
out of the business and now they
have 70-80 piglets. Marianne has
started selling boar meat too. "It's a
natural fit to sell the meat. I'm
already going to the market."
Like her bread, the boar meat
offers a uniquely different, and
healthful, taste experience for the
market shopper. "It's very low in fat.,
naturally grown and very delicious,"
she says.
Growth in both the bread business
and the wild boar business seems
certain. At the recent Market Grey -
Bruce Food Fair (she took 250 loaves
and brought back very few) she met a
restaurant owner who wants to
feature both the boar meat and
Marianne's dinner buns on his menu.
Marianne is looking to increase
efficiency with new equipment. First
priority is a larger dough mixer, she
says. Later, a second oven would
help her keep up with the heavy
demand. If the growth continues, she
will need to hire someone to help two
or three years from now.
There was a dip in sales around
Christmas time which Marianne
thinks might have been caused by the
popularity of bread -makers as
Christmas presents, but sales have
picked up in the new year. While the
bread -makers looked attractive at
first, people found out they had to
strictly follow the recipes and there
wasn't room for baking the kind of
bread her customers have become
used to, she says.
Starting with the opening of the
Walkerton market late in April, she is
working back toward the summer
schedule again, and looking forward
to it. When the markets end for the
season you look forward to the rest,
she says, but after a few weeks you
miss it. Besides helping to save the
family's dream of a farm life, her
bread baking has quickly won her
many friends in her new land.0
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