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The Farmer’s Daughter produces a line of artisnal honey products including flavoured honeys, beeswax candles and food wraps and lip balms.
Last year Bailey Gitzel was selected as one of five Red River Métis Female Entrepreneurs to Watch by the Manitoba Métis Federation.
“It was a huge setback, massive. I remember getting the call right before I was going to walk into one of my university exams and it felt like the world exploded,” she recalls. “That was really hard.” Gitzel says she is extremely grateful for the moral support she received during those rebuilding efforts from organizations like the MMF and the Infinity Women Secretariat. The IWS con- nects Métis women throughout the province and promotes their social and economic wellbeing through events like its digital marketing brunch and learning sessions. “As a small business owner, you don’t really get a chance to have water-cooler talk in a normal office situation,” she says. “Just having people that you can talk to and who have kind of gone through the same stuff as you or know what you mean, it’s just so nice.” Gitzel hopes to continue to grow her business. She is continual- ly tinkering with recipes for new products and is looking to in- crease the number of locations where her products are available including opening her own road side stand near her home in Ste. Agathe.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER
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