The B.C.-based craft brewery benefits from millennia of Indigenous agricultural history
Melanie MacInnes, the founder of B.C.-based craft brewery Locality Brewing says her connection to the land infuses every part of the business.When Melanie MacInnes thinks about the 96 acres of rolling fields and old growth woodland she lives and works on, she can’t help but get emotional.
After spending some time in Australia—where her engineer husband is originally from—and getting a taste for the farm-to-table dining and farm-based breweries and vineyards there, MacInnes wondered if it might be possible to do something similar back home. A trip to Mexico with a cousin, where they stopped at a restaurant that sold pizza made with vegetables grown in a garden on the property, also lodged in her brain as inspiration for some kind of business on the farm.
“We want people to look at where your food is coming from, and where that place is,” MacInnes says of the bigger passion behind this approach. “We need to be more grounded in the earth. We are not separate. We can’t protect what we don’t value, or understand.” “Whatever we put out there doesn’t just have a monetary value. We still have to make money, but we need to value what a business is putting back into the living circle,” she says. “And the land just always was important to me. I could make the link and say that is because the Métis is grounded in the land, the water.”
In fact, there’s clear evidence they did just that he says, referencing a ceremony that happens in February, and involves drinking “the new brew, a medicine that helped them re-set their clocks” to start a new year.
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