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40 stories exploring entrepreneurship across the city.
Across Westman, a new wave of entrepreneurs is turning Main Streets, fields, and kitchens into viable businesses—blending technology, agriculture, and community values to create resilient local economies and new pathways for young people and newcomers.
In Westman, entrepreneurs are not just chasing profit — they're rebuilding community fabric. From coffee roasters to ag-tech startups, local founders balance risk, craft, and civic duty to create lasting economic and cultural change.
At a weekend gathering in Brandon, rural entrepreneurs from Neepawa to Virden share risk, craft, and new-business grit—reviving Main Streets, reimagining agriculture, and threading economic resilience through community networks and local schools.
In Brandon and neighbouring towns, a new wave of entrepreneurs is knitting social purpose into everyday business—reviving Main Streets, modernizing farms, and creating jobs while strengthening community ties.
Across Westman, entrepreneurs are inventing new pathways — digital services, value-added agriculture and community-minded ventures — reshaping livelihoods, reversing outmigration and redefining what rural prosperity looks like.
After years in industry, Sarah McLeod returned to Brandon to convert an empty warehouse into Prairie Foundry — a maker space and social enterprise that trains apprentices, supplies local farms, and anchors downtown revitalization.
Across Westman, entrepreneurs are not just opening shops; they're rescuing downtowns, creating jobs, and remaking possibilities. By blending innovation with local values, Brandon and nearby towns are forging a resilient rural economy grounded in community.
In Brandon, entrepreneur Anika Sharma built a learning ecosystem that bridges adult education, skills training, and community resilience—turning a former storefront into a hub where newcomers, students and farmers negotiate futures through practical learning.
In Brandon and surrounding towns, entrepreneurs are blending tradition with technology — from agritech pilots to shared kitchens — creating jobs, preserving culture, and forging new paths for community-led economic resilience across Westman.
When Lena O’Hara opened Prairie Loom in downtown Brandon, she didn't just start a business — she stitched together training, jobs, and a digital hub that resists rural decline and reimagines community wealth.
In Brandon and surrounding Westman towns, a new generation of entrepreneurs blends traditional skills with digital tools, shared infrastructure, and social purpose—remaking downtowns, keeping supply chains local, and offering tangible pathways for youth and makers.
A new grassroots entrepreneurship program in Westman is helping farmers, artisans, and young professionals turn modest ideas into viable businesses, creating jobs, reviving Main Streets, and reshaping how rural communities imagine economic futures.
In Westman, entrepreneurs are quietly remaking economic and social landscapes—turning closed storefronts into incubators, blending agriculture and tech, and building businesses that keep young people rooted in community while opening paths to broader markets.
In Westman, a new generation of entrepreneurs—farm tech founders, social enterprises and creative-makers—are recasting rural life. They face capital shortages, broadband limits and housing crunches while knitting new local networks of support.
In Brandon, Claire Thompson has translated curiosity and stubbornness into a digital scaffolding that helps Main Street shops, farms, and clinics survive and sometimes thrive in a world built for big cities.
Maya Desai, founder of Prairie Hearth Cafe, turned a neighborhood bakery into a hub of volunteer-driven programs — meal trains, mentorship, and civic partnerships — reshaping Brandon's support networks with practical, humane solutions.
Claire Nguyen’s Prairie Learning Lab transforms lifelong learning in Brandon — from after-school tutoring to a mobile 'Hatch' classroom — creating pathways to employment, cultural learning, and community resilience across Westman region.
Claire MacKinnon’s decade-long project melds downtown revitalization, local food innovation, and workforce training in Brandon. Her Prairie Commons incubator demonstrates how small-scale investment, civic partnerships, and stubborn optimism reshape regional economies and everyday lives.
A community-led entrepreneurship initiative in Westman provides mentorship, maker space, and pop-up markets—helping farmers, artisans, and young founders turn ideas into viable enterprises while reshaping local life and economic prospects.
Heather McLellan transformed Willow & Main from a neighborhood café into a coordinated platform for volunteer action, delivering meals, repairs, mentorship, and a new model for local civic leadership in Westman.
In Westman, a grassroots entrepreneurship initiative connects mentors, microgrants and shared workspace to help farmers, artisans and young graduates launch businesses—reweaving the local economy while keeping talent, services and pride in the region.
Across Brandon and the Westman region, small enterprises are redesigning supply chains, creating meaningful jobs, and knitting rural identity into viable new businesses that keep people—and ideas—rooted in place.
In Brandon and surrounding Westman towns, a new wave of entrepreneurs integrates agritech, social enterprise, and downtown revitalization—creating jobs, reweaving community ties, and confronting the challenges of scale and capital.
Asha Patel transformed a tired downtown warehouse into Prairie Foundry, an incubator and mixed‑use anchor that has created jobs, trained local youth, and seeded agri‑technology startups across Westman.
A historical look at entrepreneurship across Westman — Brandon, Virden and smaller towns — revealing how family businesses, co‑operatives and adaptive startups anchored social life and shape contemporary rural renewal.
At a packed evening in Brandon, entrepreneurs from across Westman traded prototypes, recipes and business cards. Their stories reveal how small-scale innovation—rooted in place, culture and cooperation—is creating jobs, expanding services and renewing rural pride.
In Brandon, Maya Sinclair has transformed a modest learning space into Prairie Learning Lab, where hands-on training, Indigenous knowledge and employer partnerships prepare residents for local, technology-driven jobs and community resilience.
From micro-bakeries to agro-tech startups, Westman's small towns are cultivating a new entrepreneurial ecosystem, reshaping livelihoods, holding onto young people, and building economic resilience across Brandon and surrounding communities with distinct local character.
In Brandon and surrounding towns, entrepreneur Nadia Rahman has turned a small clinic, a mobile unit and pragmatic partnerships into a community health lifeline — reshaping care for thousands across Westman.
The city’s newest marketplace begins when most storefronts go dark—an after-hours economy that mixes auntie-run tea stalls, vinyl DJs, and urban farmers inside empty train halls.
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Coffee has transformed from a morning caffeine delivery system into an experience worth savoring—and the artisans behind this revolution are redefining what's possible in a cup.