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Red Cat Farm and Bakery
Local business owner takes
Air initiative for the Great Lakes,
to help "Keep Them Great
In response to recent find-
ings on plastic pollution in
the Great Lakes, a local busi-
ness just five minutes north of
Goderich on Highway 21, Red
Cat Farm and Bakery is part-
nering with an environmental
non-profit organization.
The Lake Huron Centre for
Coastal Conservation
(LHCCC) and. Red Cat will
bring awareness to the issue
and to be a part of the
solution.
Christian and Sophie
Burdan, the owners of the
Red Cat Farm, have set a goal
of serving their customers
without utilizing plastic
bags.
They began by designing a
collection of re -usable bags
that people could choose to
purchase and use for their
shopping as well as to sup-
port coastal conservation, as
a great portion of the sales go
directly to the LHCCC.
To encourage their
customers to remember to
bring their re -usable Red Cat
bag when they come .to do
their weekly shopping, the
bakery is excited to intro-
duce a reward program,
which gives customers
incentive to reduce their
"plastic footprint':
After purchasing a. jute
bag, each time an individual
uses it for a certain amount
of purchases, they receive a
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reward in the form of a
baked good.
The idea began after
Sophie attended a confer-
ence led by Jennifer Pate in
Bayfield a year ago, where
the health of the Great Lakes
was discussed.
It had been a very eye-
opening meeting. Sophie
was not aware that the Lakes
are so greatly polluted and
"need OUR help'
With Jennifer's motiva-
tional speech, Sophie
became inspired and knew
"this was it':
Sophie says she had been
searching for something
her family business could
support and identify them
selves with for quite a
while"
Sophie and her family
moved to Canada from
Europe in 2008, and since
then the farm has been very
successful.
"We wanted to thank the
community by giving some-
thing back, and helping to
keep the Great Lakes
healthy...which in turn is
good for the people':
Sophie continues to
explain that, "being organic
farmers, and baking healthy
sourdough bread made with
only simple and natural
ingredients, [they] care very
much about the
environment and the health
of [their] customers".
In this way, Christian and
Sophie believe that this cam-
paign is the perfect move to
make to return their grati-
tun -back to those two
things, in the place they love
to live in.
Sophie concludes: "we
choose to do this intuitively.
It may be a small act (for
now), but it is something
that supports everything we
consciously believe in, and
this is why we do it. We hope
YOU become inspired, will
welcome this movement,
and challenge yourselves to
do something for the com-
mon good. Listen to your
inner voice, act local to
change global, and `Let's
Keep Them Great."'
Find the Red Cat at 82560
Bluewate.r Highway,
Goderich.
The bakery is open at the
farm every Friday from 9am
- 6pm and the Red Cat Team
is also looking forward to see
you at different Farmer's
Markets in London, Bayfield,
Goderich and Kincardine
this summer.
For more information, you
can visit their Facebook page
"Red Cat Farm", write an
email to redcatfarms@gmail.
com, or simply call at (519)
524-1283.
Contributed photo
Red Cat Farm and Bakery encourages customers to re -use the
Red Cat bag to reduce their "plastic footprint".