Summer 2021 Issue #3
Featuring: Paige Callaway owner of Pursue Victory Apparel & Paige 1912, Gioia Stanley owner of Metal & Mayflies, Nicole McLaren owner of Raven Reads Books Ltd., Diane Baker owner of Wildhorse Mountain Ranch and Elise McCormick & Joanne Sherrad owners of Aurum Skincare.
On the Cover - Nicole McLaren
Nicole McLaren is a multi-award-winning Indigenous entrepreneur from British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Her extensive knowledge of economic development and passion for supporting Indigenous authors and artists allowed her to transform a small book club into Raven Reads, a thriving quarterly subscription box service.
Cover Photographer - Trayn Vanditmars
Based out of Logan Lake, British Columbia, Vanditmars is a lifestyle photographer for the unique, the wonderful and everything in-between. With a passion for family and pet photography, she loves playing with natural light and creating connections between family and friends through her images – even the four-legged ones.
FEATURED TRAILBLAZHERS
Feature photographers
STACEY DOMOLEWSKI
Ramblin Rose Creative
@Ramblinrosecreative
Maple Creek, SK, Canada
Photographed
Paige Callaway and Diane Baker
Domolewski is a business and branding photographer with a passion for working to help rural, women-run small businesses grow their visibility. When she isn’t behind the camera, she enjoys farm life, CrossFit, running, and hanging out with her corgi Patsy.
Scotty Sherin
Scotty Sherin
@scottysherin
Lunenburg, NS, Canada
Photographed
Gioia Stanley
Professional photographer and storyteller. I always take the scenic route and I don't mind getting dirty. I love all things outdoors and I'm most comfortable in and around the water. Fly fishing and surfing are my fortes.
Melissa Naef
Melissa Naef
@melnaef
Dawson, YK, Canada
Photographed
Elise McCormick and Joanne Sherrard
Yukon-based artist Melissa Naef uses her surrounding environment and community as a primary influence in her work. She works mostly within landscape, documentary and editorial work. Melissa is also a recent graduate of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, and is a freelance photographer within the Klondike Region.
featured article
Nicole McLaren
Raven Reads Books Ltd.
@raven_reads
Logan Lake, BC, Canada
Nicole McLaren is a multi-award-winning Indigenous entrepreneur from British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Her extensive knowledge of economic development and passion for supporting Indigenous authors and artists allowed her to transform a small book club into Raven Reads, a thriving quarterly subscription box service.
Photographed by Trayn Vanditmars
Taryn Vanditmars Photography
@tarynvanditmarsphotography
Logan Lake, BC, Canada
featured article
Diane Baker
Wild Horse Mountain
@wildhorse_ranch
Rocky Mountain House, AB, Canada
Diane is a searcher, dreamer, trailblazer and lives a motto of, “Abracadabra – you create as you speak.” She has a B.Ed, 30 years experience as a wilderness guide and outfitter, is a Reiki Master Healer, a sharer of sacred horse magic, a spirit dancer, an EAL facilitator, entrepreneur, outlier, wife, mother and grandmother.
Photographed by Stacey Domolewski
featured article
Gioia Stanley
Metal + Mayflies
@metalandmayflies
Baddeck, NS, Canada
Metal + Mayflies is a unique business based in Nova Scotia, that combines one woman's passion for metalsmithing and fly fishing. Offering handcrafted jewelry and unique fishing excursions, Metal + Mayflies aims to bring out the adventurer in everyone either on or off the river.
Photographed by Scotty Sherin
featured article
Elise McCormick and Joanne Sherrard
Aurum Skincare
@aurumskincare
Dawson, YT, Canada
Joanne Sherrard: A graduate degree in aesthetic philosophy forms the unique way Joanne Sherrard shares her love of Canada with the world. Her lifelong struggle with eczema presents new challenges for product development, and ensures Aurum remains best in class in the natural treatment of highly reactive skin.
Elise McCormick: Through frustration with acne and rosacea, Elise McCormick developed a keen interest in formulating products to address her skin’s unique needs. She believes advances in bioscience will revolutionize natural skincare. She dedicates her work in economic botany and innovative approach to cosmetic chemistry to fulfilling this vision.
Photographed by Melissa Naef
Featured Article
Paige Callaway
Pursue Victory Apparel & Paige 1912
@thebrandpage1912 | @pursuevictory | @paigeycallaway
Stavely, AB, Canada
A southern Alberta native, Paige Callaway focuses her attention on functional fashion with her two lines, Pursue Victory and Paige 1912. Using her experiences riding and rodeoing along with her education as a couturier, Paige manufactures functional fitting shirts for ladies right in Alberta.
Photographed by Stacey Domolewski
Digging Up the Roots
Jess Mose
Herbalist and Entrepreneur
Prairie Soap Shack
@prairiesoapshack
Elnora, Alberta, Canada
Jessica Mose is the owner, maker and prairie herbalist behind Prairie Soap Shack in central Alberta. Her business takes inspiration from the past and the plants of the prairies to create all-natural skin and body care for people who want a modern self-care routine infused with a connection to nature and the nostalgia of their roots.
Photographed By Chelsie Graham
Chelsie Graham Photography
@chelsiegrahamphotography
Elnora, Alberta, Canada
these hands of mine
Laurel Ysebaert
Ysebaert Acres
@ysebaertacres
Courtright, ON, Canada
Laurel Ysebaert is a mother, wife and registered veterinary technician working on turning their third-generation 50-acre family farm into a sustainable farmstead. Ysebaert Acres has free-range laying hens who provide them with beautiful fresh eggs to sell locally, and they will be starting a fold of Scottish Highland cattle later in the year.
Hair: Tara Hazzard - @taraheartshair
Make-up: Rikki Hurst - @makeupbyrikk
Clothing + Accessories: Cold Cactus Boutique - @coldcactusboutique
Photographed by Tara Roberts
The Cold Cactus Boutique
@coldcactusboutique
Appin ON, Canada
These hands of mine
Sarah Strautman and Erin Kernalguen
Living Sky Farms
@livingskyfarmssk
RM of Birch Hills, SK, Canada
Sarah Strautman and Erin Kernalguen are the owners and operators of Living Sky Farms. They offer fresh, whole grain products such as flour, flakes, soups & bread mixes using grains grown right in Saskatchewan for their customers to use in their kitchens.
Photographed by Jade Folden
Jade Lauren Photography
@jadelaurenphoto
Melfort, SK, Canada
these hands of mine
Linda Bennett
L.E. Bennett Leather and Silver
@l.e.bennettleatherandsilver
Morris, MB, Canada
Linda Bennett is a mostly self-taught leatherworker who focuses on creating high quality leather gear mainly for those in the horse industry, but also for those just looking for high quality handcrafted goods. She is also a beginner silversmith with a long-time passion for horses. Linda is a momma, wife, animal lover, hunter, bookworm and loves the outdoors.
Photographed by Gundi Manteufel-Grajciar
Pictured by GMG
@pictured_by_gmg
Grunthal, MB, Canada
cultivate your business
Tara Roberts
Cold Cactus Boutique
@coldcactusboutique
Appin, ON, Canada
Tara Roberts is the owner of The Cold Cactus Boutique, a western and country chic lifestyle boutique based in Ontario, Canada. Beyond a business owner, Tara is a wife and mom of two beautiful boys, Stetson and Weston, and she has a deep love for the outdoors, agriculture, western communities and photography. She enjoys using Cold Cactus as an opportunity to network and share her love of entrepreneurship with others. In addition, Tara enjoys the opportunity to inspire, make people feel their best and help them express their individuality, originality, and lifestyle.
Photographed by Tara Roberts
spaces we love
Robyn Chubey
Life of Glow
@life_of_glow
East St Paul, MB, Canada
Robyn Chubey is a photographer, content creator, mother, and part-time flower farmer making her home at Prairie View Acres, in East St. Paul, Manitoba, along with her husband Dan, and children Lila and Cade.
Photographed by Robyn Chubey
Grounded in you
Meagan Saum
Resilience Coach and Business Mentor
@meagansaum
Crossfield, AB, Canada
Meagan Saum is a book-collecting, nature-loving, horse-obsessed momma of three. She is the owner of Silver Valley Ranch with her husband and an equine facilitated wellness professional, business mentor, and life coach for those who are feeling stuck or unsatisfied in their lives and/or careers.
Photographed By Teal Hallaby
Four Winds Photography
@thesefourwinds
Airdrie, AB, Canada
her story
Jana Harman
Bar Ten Ranch
@bartenranchbc
Lillooet, BC, Canada
Born and raised in Kelowna, B.C. In 2011, Jana Harman moved to Saskatchewan for university and got my Bachelor's of Education. Harman now resides on a 500-acre cattle ranch outside of Lillooet B.C. with her partner Cole, her dogs, horses, and cattle. The perfect mix of love and chaos.
Photographed by Kyla Krisa
Kay Photos Photography
@kayphotosbykyla
Kelowna, BC, Canada
rural threads
Styled by Sparkle Chicks
@sparkle.chicks
Models
Cassandra Torgerson: @cassie_lin5
Taylor McWilliam: @taylor.mcwilliam
Anessa Big Snake: @anessabs
Shae Vanden Elsen: @shaevanz
Photographed by Stacey Domolewski
Ramblin Rose Creative
@Ramblinrosecreative
Maple Creek, SK, Canada
Pack Your bags
Jennifer Wilkie
Wilkies Cove Boathouse
@0jennid #wilkiescove
Upper Lahave, NS, Canada
Jennifer Wilkie is a 3rd generation farmer (christmas trees, beef, produce, eggs, flowers, luffa, etc). An adventurer from a young age Jennifer left Nova Scotia at the age of 17 to see the world by jumping on a plane to Thailand, where she joined a group called YWAM. Soon she changed her mind and headed off to university in B.C. where she received her Bachelor of Arts. In the next few years she married, had a short term career in the fashion industry and found her life and path in farming. She has never been happier.
Photographed by Beatrice Schuler
Vitaminbea
@_vitaminbea_
Barass Corner, NS, Canada
the wholesome you
Tammy Thielmen
BSW, MSW, RSW
EMDR Certified Therapist
Town & Country Counselling
@townandcountrycounselling
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
Tammy Thielman is a Masters-level Registered Social Worker. Thielman has a farm-based private counselling practice in the Interior of British Columbia, where she supports children and families, and offers equine and animal-assisted nature-based counselling.
Photographed by Victoria Skofteby
Victoria Skofteby Photography
@victoria_skofteby
Tappen, BC, Canada
Sip It
Dallas James
James Family Farm
@jamesfamilyfarm
Port Perry, ON, Canada
Dallas James is a farmer and that is something she never thought she’d say. A former professional musician, mom to three and wife to a police officer, she was ready for a life change once she hit 40! In the first year of owning the farm the James have acquired honeybees, laying hens, pastured chickens and their beloved Scottish Highland cattle.What started as a passion project has grown to an ongoing everyday education - saying the farm was built by YouTube and Google is not a stretch.
Photographed by Eileen Rogers-Coughlin
Eye Images Photography
@eye.images
Stouffville, ON, Canada
on the trail
Sam Mitchell
Skijor Canada & ReMount Leather
@samazon77 @skijorcanada @remount_leather
Millarville, AB, Canada
Sam Mitchell lives near Millarville, Alberta where she manages an equestrian property, trains horses, makes art and cooks up outlandish ideas. A love of old leather inspired her line of ReMount bags which can be found on Instagram. An avid volunteer, she whips in for the Calgary Hunt Club, organizes sidesaddle races for Millarville and the Calgary Stampede, and hosts Skijordue, an annual charity event.
Photography by Amanda Ubell
Amanda Ubell Photography
@amandaubell
Airdrie, AB, Canada
Homegrown
Hadleigh Burch
A Little Wild Farm
@alittlewildfarm
Drayton Valley, AB, Canada
Hadleigh Burch is the face behind the lens at A Little Wild Farm. Raising a menagerie of farm animals, growing her little apiary, and forever weeding her vegetable garden or tending to the greenhouse in the summer months, she can also be found knitting or sewing in her down time.
Photography by Hadleigh Burch
Homegrown
Vanessa Wrubleski
The Blushing Farmhouse
@vanessajoelle_
Millet, AB, Canada
Vanessa Wrubleski started living a rural life seven years ago with her husband. Since then, she has jumped into the rural lifestyle and self-sufficient living, head first. Between sheep farming with her father-in-law, to canning, welding, and of course gardening, there isn't much Wrubleski doesn't do on the farm.
Photography by Vanessa Wrubleski
Make it
Vanessa Wrubleski
The Blushing Farmhouse
@vanessajoelle_
Millet, AB, Canada
Vanessa Wrubleski started living a rural life seven years ago with her husband. Since then, she has jumped into the rural lifestyle and self-sufficient living, head first. Between sheep farming with her father-in-law, to canning, welding, and of course gardening, there isn't much Wrubleski doesn't do on the farm.
Photography by Vanessa Wrubleski
Credits
Summer 2021 Issue #3
FOUNDERS & CREATIVE DIRECTORS
Jan Johnson & Erin Johnson
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Erin Johnson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jan Johnson
CO-EDITOR
Yvette Putter
PUBLISHER
Prairie Girl Publishing Inc.
PRINTER
Mountain View Printing & Graphics Ltd. – Calgary