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Fire Devastates AVION Harvest

We have decided to launch a fund raising project through GoFundMe. If you are interested in helping us out, please go to our GoFundMe page here: https://www.gofundme.com/avionharvest. We would like to also ask that you would share this with your contacts, if you are okay with that.
On Wednesday, May 24th, our business was devastated when a grass fire caught our building, burning through one wall and causing both fire and smoke damage to our product inventory and smoke damage to our equipment and supplies such as boxes and bag plastic. While we do carry liability insurance, we did not carry property and content insurance due to a shortage of funds.
For those of you who are now just being introduced to AVION Harvest and for those who would like an update of our current situation, please read below. Please visit our website at: www.avionharvest.com.
The funds that we are hoping to raise would be used to restore the building and equipment to their pre-fire condition and to replace the inventory. It is our hope to be up and running as soon as possible in order to meet store demands.
We owe it to all those who have helped us along the way to get this far and to ourselves for not giving up.
And we will forever be indebtedness to those of you who are aiding us now. With sincere gratitude, we thank you.
For those who are unable to support this program financially, we only ask that you would help spread the word about this project.
If you wish to contact us please do so by email.
Sincerely,
Tim and Lewis
tim@avionharvest.com, lewis@avionharvest.com
AVION Harvest is a small packaging business located in southwest Manitoba. Here we have been packaging natural dried grains and pulses such as peas, beans, lentils and flaxseed for wholesale sales to retail stores. Our main goal is to provide healthy food products that are affordable for everyone. Our motto is from field to family "naturally".
It has taking many years of blood, sweat and tears (time, energy and money) into getting our AVION Harvest business up and going. It has not happened by us alone, but with the help and encouragement of family, friends and many mentors.
2016 was an exciting year for us as we were able to start getting our products on store shelves. We are currently in about 40 stores in Manitoba and have two other food chains who are considering our products for their stores.
As you may imagine, with products that have narrow margins we have to sell alot of product to make any decent profit. And while our sales have been increasing, we have been using profits to increase our inventory and have not paid ourselves wages. While we have managed to keep the business virtually deal free, it has stretched and stressed our personal finances. In order to preserve what has been achieved we are having to ask for assistance. ... See more

  grew from the dream of providing a world that is overrun with processed, refined food with a healthy and affordable alternative.

From Tim Wiebe and Lewis Pohl / AVION Harvest,

We would like to take a moment to inform you about an important issue regarding AVION Harvest.
On Wednesday, May 24th, our business was devastated when a grass fire caught our building, burning through one wall and causing both fire and smoke damage to our product inventory and smoke damage to our equipment and supplies such as boxes and bag plastic. While we do carry liability insurance, we did not carry property and content insurance due to a shortage of funds.
We have decided to launch a fund raising project through GoFundMe. If you are able to and are interested in helping us out, please go to our GoFundMe page here: https://www.gofundme.com/avionharvest. We would like to also ask that you would share this with your contacts, if you are okay with that.
For those of you who are now just being introduced to AVION Harvest and for those who would like an update of our current situation, please read below. Please visit our Facebook page: www.Facebook/avionharvest or website: www.avionharvest.com.
The funds that we are hoping to raise would be used to restore the building and equipment to their pre-fire condition and to replace the inventory. It is our hope to be up and running as soon as possible in order to meet store demands.
We owe it to all those who have helped us along the way to get this far and to ourselves for not giving up.
And we will forever be indebtedness to those of you who are aiding us now. With sincere gratitude, we thank you.
For those who are unable to support this program financially, we only ask that you would help spread the word about this project.
If you wish to contact us please do so by email.
Sincerely,
Tim and Lewis
tim@avionharvest.com, lewis@avionharvest.com

AVION Harvest is a small packaging business located in southwest Manitoba. Here we have been packaging natural dried grains and pulses such as peas, beans, lentils and flaxseed for wholesale sales to retail stores. Our main goal is to provide healthy food products that are affordable for everyone.
It has taking many years of blood, sweat and tears (time, energy and money) into getting our AVION Harvest business up and going. It has not happened by us alone, but with the help and encouragement of family and friends as well as entities such as Entrepreneurship Manitoba, Trade Manitoba, Food and Beverage Manitoba and many, many others.
2016 was an exciting year for us as we were able to start getting our products on store shelves. We are currently in about 40 stores in Manitoba and have two other food chains who are considering our products for their stores.
As you may imagine, with products that have narrow margins we have to sell a lot of product to make any decent profit. And while our sales have been increasing, we have been using profits to increase our inventory and have not paid ourselves wages. While we have managed to keep the business virtually deal free, it has stretched and stressed our personal finances. In order to preserve what has been achieved we are having to ask for assistance.

Tim Wiebe
Lewis Pohl

AVION Harvest
www.avionharvest.com ... See more

  grew from the dream of providing a world that is overrun with processed, refined food with a healthy and affordable alternative.

t's always fun to find a good cabbage recipe , but this great Asian Cabbage Roll recipe is both super-cheap to make and extra flavorful, combining mushrooms, ginger, LENTILS and sesame seeds to make an amazing vegan meal

http://batterlicker.com/2011/03/asian-cabbage-rolls-with-spicy-lentils/ ... See more

When I saw Faith Durand’s recipe for Asian Cabbage Rolls with Spicy Pork, I immediately decided that I had to make it, but with lentils in lieu of pork. Lentils work very well with garlic and ginger in Indian food, so I expected them to do just as well with the same base flavors augmented by the qui... ... See more