{"id":1099,"date":"2023-09-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:25:32","slug":"21st-century-success-in-a-19th-century-butcher-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/21st-century-success-in-a-19th-century-butcher-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"21st-century success in a 19th-century butcher shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you walk into the old-fashioned storefront of the Canning Village Meat Market<\/a> to order your barbecue steaks and burgers, you\u2019d never imagine that this small-town butcher shop is a retailing and wholesaling powerhouse. The store first opened in the late 1800s and has operated continuously as a butcher shop ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its current owners, Oscar Huntley and Nancy Roscoe-Huntley, bought the business 20 years ago. Back then, the physical toll of many years\u2019 work in commercial construction was prompting Oscar to consider a new career. He enrolled in Nova Scotia Community College\u2019s retail meat-cutting program and graduated top of his class. His college work experience was in the Canning store at a time when the owner was looking to sell. Oscar and Nancy bought it, operating initially as a sole proprietorship. By 2008, the business had become so successful that they incorporated as the Canning Village Meat Market Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canning Village Meat Market storefront<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done really well,\u201d Nancy says. \u201cBusiness has increased yearly. About 10 years ago, we built a piece on the back and put our processing room in. When we first started, pepperoni wasn\u2019t a big market item \u2013 we made it a few times a week. Now we\u2019re making over 25 tons a year, just pepperoni.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Huntleys appreciate their customers\u2019 support. \u201cWe listen to what our customers need \u2013 that\u2019s extremely important,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen we began, we had three goals: competitive prices, top-notch customer service, and high-quality products. When you look at customer comments on our Facebook page<\/a>, people mention those things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The business wholesales to farm markets, convenience stores and grocers between Falmouth and Berwick. They also sell to restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Huntley, butcher and market manager of the Canning Village Meat Market<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, with the help of the Farm Loan Board, they have nearly finished building an extension beside their current store. \u201cThe interest rates are much better than the big commercial lenders, and they made it easy for us.\u201d Nancy says. \u201cWe\u2019re very grateful to the Farm Loan Board.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new building will enable them to sell more variety of meats and local products. \u201cWe\u2019re going to expand our smoked sausages and bring in nice deli meats, a variety of cheeses and maybe charcuterie,\u201d Nancy says. Although they use Alberta beef because they couldn\u2019t get the quantities they need in Nova Scotia, they\u2019re talking to Atlantic Beef<\/a> to see if they can bring in Atlantic beef again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Canning Village Meat Market, visit their website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you walk into the old-fashioned storefront of the Canning Village Meat Market to order your barbecue steaks and burgers, you\u2019d never imagine that this small-town butcher shop is a retailing and wholesaling powerhouse. The store first opened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfarmloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}