St. Brigid’s Creamery Ltd.
1478 acres under management42352 Brandon Rd., Brussels, Ontario, N0G 1H0Bill van Nes
Regenerative means actively contributing to soil regeneration via using holistic, financial, land grazing, and livestock management
Products
- butter
Regenerative Practices
- Minimize soil disturbance
- Permanent grassland
- Keep the soil covered and maintain living roots year-round
- Cover crops
- Intercropping
- Protect and enhance biodiversity
- Companion cropping
- Diverse crop rotations
- Pollinator buffers
- Habitat conservation/creation/restoration
- Optimize input use
- Manure
- Minimal to no use of synthetic pesticides
- Minimal to no use of synthetic fertilizers
- Preserve and restore natural ecosystems
- Maintain living roots year-round (agroforestry and perennials)
- Silvopasture
- Perennial crops (grasslands)
- Windbreaks
- Riparian buffers
- Native perennial vegetation conservation
- Integrate animals on the lands and ensure their welfare
- Adaptive multi-paddock grazing
- Integrated crop and livestock
- Multi-species grazing
- Improve water cycles
- Water conservation
Observations
- wildlife and bird biodiversity
- substantially reduce water runoff, water runs clean
- plant biodiversity and tree regeneration
Certifications
- Organic (St. Brigid's Dairy is certified with CSI and with AWA Animal Welfare Approved. St. Brigid's Creamery is certified with Pro-Cert. We are undergoing the ROC certification process.)
- Grass-fed (DFO's Grassfed compliance)
How to buy
- 100km Foods is the only current distributor - our butter is found at the many retailers and restaurants that they serve: www.100kmfoods.com
