Looking to transform your everyday meals into extraordinary culinary delights? We've got just the thing to take your dishes to the next level - Three Farmers Crunchy Lentil Toppers!
A Burst of Flavour and Nutrition: Our lentils are grown with care on Canadian family farms, ensuring the highest quality. What sets them apart? They're roasted, never fried, and perfectly seasoned to create a symphony of flavours with every bite.
A Nutritional Powerhouse: If you're looking to boost your meals' nutrition, you're in for a treat. These lentil toppers are a natural source of plant protein, packing a mighty 12g per serving. Not to mention, they provide a generous 10g of dietary fibre, making your dishes not only delicious but also satisfying.
Variety to Satisfy Every Palate, Explore three mouthwatering flavours:
Ready to Elevate Your Culinary Game? If your taste buds are tingling and you're ready to embark on a flavour-packed journey, Shop Crunchy Lentil Toppers.
]]>Our journey has always been about sharing the goodness of Canadian-grown ingredients with the world, and now, our flavorful fava beans are embarking on a new adventure in Japan. This is a significant milestone for us, and we're overflowing with gratitude for the opportunity to introduce our wholesome snacks to even more people around the globe.
A Celebration of Healthy Snacking and New Beginnings! 🌍
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all our supporters, near and far, who have been part of our journey. Together, we're redefining the snacking experience and promoting healthier choices, one delicious bite at a time.
Join us in celebrating this exciting new chapter as we continue to make wholesome snacking a global sensation!
]]>🌱 Embracing Change for Better Nutrition: We're always on a quest to provide you with the best possible products, and our new fava beans are no exception. Both varieties of fava beans, old and new, share some incredible qualities. They're rich in protein, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals, making them a stellar addition to any healthy diet.
🌿 Spot the Difference: So, what's the difference with our new favas? The main distinction lies in the appearance. Our fresh batch of favas boasts a darker, more brown husk. However, rest assured, this cosmetic change doesn't alter their exceptional nutritional value or their versatility in the kitchen.
🥘 A Culinary Delight Awaits: Whether you're adding them to salads, enriching soups and stews, or serving them as a protein-packed side dish, these fava beans are ready to elevate your culinary creations.
In summary, we're thrilled to introduce our new fava beans, and we believe you'll find them even more delightful in every way. Keep an eye out for these little nutritional powerhouses on our shelves and get ready to enjoy the same great taste with a nutritious boost!
]]>Porter Airlines has unveiled the details of their updated in-flight service offerings, which will be available starting in February. Three Farmers is thrilled to share that our Zesty Cheddar Roasted Favas are one of the delicious, high-quality snacks that will be available.
When selecting partners, Porter wanted to bring in 100% Canadian companies that use quality ingredients and focus on sustainability. We're thrilled to be included with so many other notable Canadian companies!
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We are honoured to share that our roasted fava beans have won the Travel category at the Gama Innovation Awards 2022.
The global team at Gama analyzed thousands of recent launches from more than 40 countries and selected our favas, as well as many other innovative products as finalists in the travel category. The judging panel is made up of top executives from the world’s leading FMCG businesses, including KraftHeinz, PepsiCo and Coty. View the full judging panel.
Thank you to the Gama Innovation Awards, it couldn't have been easy to choose a winner in this category with so many innovative products.
View the award presentation here:
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All of Canada’s prairie provinces have the right soil and climate to grow pulse products but right here in Saskatchewan, we grow more than 80% of all Canadian grown chickpeas! To give you an idea of how much that really is, in 2015 alone Canada exported 6 million tonnes of pulses worth more than $4.2 billion!!!
So here at Three Farmers we often get asked about how we manage to handle the challenges faced in farming and handle them in a sustainable manner. Read a bit more here in the blog and then subscribe to our newsletter; each month we try to share a tidbit from our farmers - which is usually an interesting in field perspective of farming in Saskatchewan!
Pulses such as chickpeas have an extremely low water footprint. They grow in dry land agriculture and utilize very little water compared to traditional crops such as wheat. They also utilize the shallow water in the soil, leaving deeper water reserves for future crops grown in the crop rotation.
Chickpeas can be extremely difficult to grow due to climate and excessive moisture can cause problems for chickpea plants. Chickpeas are highly susceptible to a disease called Ascochyta Blight. This disease can completely destroy up to 90% of a kabuli crop. Symptoms include tan/brown lesions on the stem of the plant which causes the plant to wilt and die.
These lesions can ooze spores in wet and humid conditions. Rainfall causes these spores to spread, as does wind. If the weather takes a turn and becomes warm and dry, there is a chance the plants will survive however the plant will be delayed in maturity and yield will decrease.
Pest Management:
A good pest management program is crucial for managing chickpea crops. Some of the actions that our farmers take to ward off disease include:
Treatment:
In some cases, if Ascochyta Blight is detected, in order to save the crop from 90% failure, a curative fungicide will be applied to ward off the spread of the disease and aid in the production of a healthy chickpea crop. Timing is extremely important in catching and preventing disease.
Chickpeas are typically straight cut, meaning they are not swathed before combining. Timing is very important when harvesting chickpeas. An over ripened crop can lead to decrease in yield while harvesting a crop too young may lead to increased chance of green seed in the crop which yields a lower grade.
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Click here for the entire blog post: Canada's Leading Provider of Roasted Bean Snacks Receives $6.2 Million Investment from District Ventures and Existing Investors (newswire.ca)
"Canada continues to demonstrate its enormous agricultural and health expertise and resources. Investments in vertically integrated companies like Three Farmers are what will create generational opportunity for our country," said Arlene Dickinson, General Partner of District Ventures Capital. "As leading producers for lentil and green pea production in the world, Canada is missing out by not participating in the commercialization of these resources into products – a gap Three Farmers is able to help fill."
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Three Farmers Foods was chosen at the 2022 PAC Global Awards in the category of Brand Marketing - Revitalized Food, with an Award of Distinction for our packaging design and innovation.
We are happy to see our brand story resonating on the global stage as we strive to take pulses and healthy snacking mainstream.
Many thanks to our partners at Bridgemark - branding & design for their impeccable work on our pack and congratulations on this award!
Click here for the full list of winners: https://bit.ly/3tfpi2c
These new and unique flavours stood out on the criteria of innovation, taste, experience and packaging. To become a finalist, a product had to receive a score of at least 70%.
Winners will be announced on June 3rd. Read the full story here
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A message to our valued customers and suppliers,
In light of recent events across the World stage, we wanted to take a moment to update our community and partners on how Three Farmers Foods is addressing the issue of COVID-19 while ensuring we continue to produce safe and healthy food products for our customers in this time of uncertainty.
Three Farmers continues to respond promptly to all incoming orders to our grocery partners. There has been great concern about the ability for grocery stores to source quality food items during this time. We assure you that our manufacturing facilities, located here in Canada, will continue to deliver. Additional sanitation measures and protocols have been addressed and the facility has strict guidelines in place for external visitor or contractor access. All staff have been advised not to come to work if they experience any symptoms and any staff that has recently travelled will be asked to remain in isolation for a period of two weeks prior to returning to work.
Our head office team continues to work diligently to ensure that customer orders are filled promptly and that healthy, stable food items remain available to people during this time of uncertainty. Beginning Monday, March 23rd, Three Farmers team members that can work remotely, will do so. Those that have a direct impact on order fulfillment, will continue to work from the office setting, with restrictions in place that allow for the required social distancing.
In addition to these steps, we will be monitoring the latest information including recommendations from the Public Health Agency and World Health Organization and doing our part to stop the spread of this virus.
We are here to serve our community and our customers. If there is any way we can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to our office at 877-295-1551 or orders@threefarmers.ca
Keep well everyone and stay nourished!
Natasha Vandenhurk, CEO
Elysia Vandenhurk, CRO
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