StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Pure Home Grown, Aspire Executive Coaching, CC’s Café and Trent Lakes Cheese

PTBOCanada is delighted to be running StoosNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…

Pete and Darlene Cremers started their business, Pure Home Grown, a few years ago, but the business has been growing…

Growing fresh local produce, including a variety of lettuces, basil, kale, spinach, swiss chard, arugula, cilantro, dill, leaf celery, parsley and more. Their Young’s Point “farm” is located in the old Young’s Point school and utilizes a very unique aquaponic cycle that circulates water between the plants and thousands of Koi fish. You can now purchase their fresh produce through a weekly farm subscription called a pure pack and it is available at numerous local retailers, for details visit purehg.com.

Emma Collyer’s business is called Aspire Executive Coaching.

Collyer works with executives and senior leaders to grow in their careers, enabling them to overcome challenges and empower their teams. Offering Executive Coaching, Career Development Coaching, Leadership Development, Change Management, Team Building, Corporate Training, Life Coaching, Management Consulting, and more, Emma can help you become more effective, by breaking down issues, raising awareness around blind spots and building confidence. For details, or to book a free initial meeting visit aspireexecutivecoaching.ca.

Carolyn Challice is known to her friends as CC.

And it turns out to be a great name for a Café as well. Carolyn took over the former Makin’ Bacon location in the Brookdale Plaza and CC’s Café continues to grow in popularity. Open daily from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m., you’ll find a full breakfast and lunch menu including eggs bennie, breakfast bowls, omelets, pancakes, quesadillas, soups, sandwiches, wraps, burgers and more. Stop at 833 Chemong Rd., Brookdale Plaza, Peterborough.

Kim Locke has taken her weekly farmers market cheese stand and opened her own retail location in Bobcaygeon.

Called Trent Lakes Cheese, Kim offers a variety of international cheeses, Quebec cheeses and Ontario cheese. It includes Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese which Kim has been selling at the Market since 2018. Open Wednesday to Sunday, the shop also sells a variety of jellies, charcuterie packages and locally-made cheese and charcuterie boards. Check them out at 60 King St., next to the Ultramar in Bobcaygeon, or online at trentlakescheese.ca or on Facebook or Instagram.

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