STAFF PROFILES
If you would like to join our team, please contact us. We are looking for more sales representatives in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
For more information, select a Staff member's Profile below:
Fx: 306.747.3469
E: backtoyourroots@sasktel.net
Cindy grew up in the Canwood, SK area on a mixed farm. After a 20 year successful nursing career, Cindy went back to her roots, so to speak, and started the company in 2006. She has never looked back. Cindy has taken many courses and workshops on soil health in Canada and the US but much of her experience comes from the many hours she spends in the fields, working with producers to “heal” their soil back to the way nature intended. Cindy is passionate about the Ream’s method of farming and bringing back health to the soil and nutrition back to our food supply.
Minitonas, MB R0L 1G0
Ph / Fax: 204.525.2262
Cell: 204.734.8600
E: lorne@back-to-your-roots.com
I farm in the Swan River Valley of Manitoba. For many years I produced grain exclusively, I then diversified into grass seed production. Eventually, a bison operation was also added to the farm.
We are striving to maximize our production in all areas of our farm in the most cost effective way while paying particular attention to the health of our soil.
Humboldt, SK S0K 2A0
Ph: 306.682.3520
Cell: 306.231.9873
E: roger@back-to-your-roots.com
Roger comes to our team from the Humboldt / Marysburg area in Eastern / Central Saskatchewan. Roger has been an organic farmer for many years, and also has been involved with processing and marketing of the end products. His years of farming experience and his knowledge of the soil and its problems along with his willingness to test and evaluate make him a very valuable asset to our company.
E: gr.bertoia@gmail.com
Gary Bertoia is from Unity. Gary farmed for 23 year, livestock and grain. He is married with 5 children and 4 grandchildren. Gary is university educated in Agriculture and in 1987 began using biological farming products but realized there was something missing and discovered Calcium is a big part of the equation.
Cell: 204.729.5272
E: boundyfarms@hotmail.com
Nick grew up on a mixed farm in Devon, England. He emigrated to Boissevain, Manitoba in 2005. He graduated from high school and gained his diploma in Agribusiness in 2010. On joining the family mixed farm he added a mobile seed cleaning business to the enterprise.
Nick's aim is to produce high yielding, high quality food using optimal soil health.
Austin, MB R0H 0C0
Ph: 204.723.2831
E: ronlinmb@yahoo.ca
Ron & Linda Catt run a Century family farm in the Assiniboine River Valley near Austin Manitoba. The farm is a mixed farm with Purebred Polled Herefords since 1939 and Open Pollinated Corn since 2001. This corn has evolved into a corn seed production operation since 2005. Our goal has been to work more closely with nature to improve soil health, to reduce costs and produce a high quality product which lead us to Back To Your Roots products.
E: johnwness@shaw.ca
John has been involved in the dairy industry for over 35 years as an equipment dealer. Once he became associated with Back To Your Roots, he could see a need to help dairy farmers understand better the quality of feed they are growing for their animals. "Using the instruments we have at our disposal allows me to help them to assess the nutritional needs of the crops they grow."
Schiestel Farms Inc.
P.O. Box 66
Alameda, SK S0C 0A0
Ph: 306.489.4871
Cell: 306.485.8045
Fax: 306.489.4796
E: mkschiestel@sasktel.net
Cell: 306.292.6768
E: gillian@yourlink.ca
In the past several years I have become completely and daily occupied with the affairs of the “family small farm”, thriving and struggling and growing kids and crops and livestock on our home quarter neat Saskatoon, SK. I am blessed to be married to Darcy Thiessen, a conventional grain farmer and we have three children at home. My time and focused energy has been spent on learning to grow better quality forage for the family’s flocks and herds (free run chickens, sheep and cattle) with my ultimate goal being to maximize the health and well being of my family. I am interested in balancing the soil that supports our lives with garden products, fruit, crops and forages. In my quest for knowledge, I have found Back to Your Roots Soil Solutions Inc.