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Jeffries Brothers

Jeffries Brothers produce a variety of vegetables including Asparagus, Red Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, and Zucchini.Great care is taken through the growing season, from production to the harvesting and packaging of the final product, ensuring consistently high quality. Clean air, clean water, cool nights, and warm sunny days during the growing season give Manitoba vegetables their high sugar content, intense colour, and great taste. Although harsh winters do not favour year round production, the freezing temperatures do serve as a natural environmental sterilant.

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Cucumbers

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Asparagus

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Beets

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Winter Squash

OUR PRODUCTS

  Ensuring Consistently High Quality. 

Carrots

Carrots

The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow varieties exist. It has a crisp texture when fresh

Cucumber

Cucumber

Cucumber is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is a creeping vine that bears cylindrical fruits that are used as culinary vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber: slicing, pickling, and burpless

Winter squash

Winter squash

Winter squash is a summer-growing annual fruit, representing several squash species within the genus Cucurbita.

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By Jennifer McFee, MyToba.ca

Where there is great risk, there can also be great reward.Few people know that better than farmers – and Jeffries Brothers Vegetable Growers are no exception. Located east of Portage la Prairie, brothers Dave and Albert Jeffries incorporated the farm in 1968. Forty years later, Dave and his son Roland bought Albert’s share of the farm. Today, along with Roland’s brother Ernie, they continue to operate as a father-son team.They grow carrots, parsnips and rutabagas for Peak of the Market on their 500-acre farm. The Jeffries also grow strawberries, which are Roland’s top pick for a sweet treat. “I like vegetables, but the strawberries would be my favourite to eat,” he says. “But, I have to say, the carrots are really good too

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GROWING FORMS

Clean air, clean water, cool nights, and warm sunny days during the growing season give Manitoba carrots their high sugar content, intense colour, and great taste.

Sustainability

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Food Safety

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Innovation

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The farm also provides fertile ground for new ideas and fresh approaches to the industry. “We’re always trying to grow a better product, whether it’s with new technology or changing up some of the practices we’re doing. They’re always coming out with a new piece of equipment that maybe does this job a little better,” Roland says. “As well, we’re trying to find ways to reduce the amount of waste on our farm.

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