“Manitoba Farm family on a roll with organic cleaning and milling.”
Dan and Fran DeRuyck’s organic grain-cleaning plant is one of the first things a visitor sees when they arrive at Top of the Hill Farm, south of Treherne, Man.
The large shed dominates the west side of the yard, bordered by bins which, on any given week, might be filled with anything from wheat, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, mustard or spelt. Inside, a maze of pipes and blowers conveys grain through a line of cleaning equipment. The grain is filtered by size, density and, using a specialized electronic eye, colour.. Undesirable seeds are whisked away to another, smaller bin outside, while the cleaned grain is bagged for milling or, increasingly, returned to the customer after a custom cleaning job.
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"We enjoy meeting the people. We have a lot great customers.”
For 15 years, the Deruycks have grown organic grains such wheat and flax. But they don't just grow crops, they also process them at their on-farm flour mill.
The Deruycks' Top of the Hill Farm in Treherne was one of three farms featured on last week's tour with Small Farms Manitoba. Participants would've seen how the mill works, using little blades — unlike most larger-scale flour mills — to cut the grain into flour or flakes, depending on what the customer wants.
While the Deruycks' farm is only 700 cultivated acres, Dan Deruyck says they run seven days a week between farming, processing, marketing, and delivering products.
"We pretty much cover all avenues of the operation," he says. "There is a lot of work involved, between getting all your permits and all the different government departments on board. Then also learning to process different grain, and then your marketing, you spend a lot of time on the phone talking to different people and setting up orders."
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