Our History

We are Mike, Sarah, Eric and Lucas Schroeder, and we are the owners of Lakeland Farms Inc. and Lakeland Feeds Inc. Our farming legacy is multigenerational, continued and passed on by Ian and Rose Schroeder. Mike has an education in Ag Science and Ag Business and Sarah is a school teacher, a 4H alumni and the hub of the wheel around our farm! In 2015 we moved from Abbotsford to Salmon Arm, started a family and started to build our farm with the help of Ian and Rose. We certified organic right away and transitioned in to grain production for the opportunities it offered in soil management, integration and local sales.

The first couple of years we built up equipment inventory, got educated in organic production and leased more land as opportunities arose. In 2017 we were awarded egg quota under BC’s New Producer Program, and we built our first layer barn placing in 2018. We knew early on that we wanted to build an on-farm feed mill to control our feed source and mill some of the crops we grow on the farm, as well as support other growers in the region. We completed the feed mill in November 2020, starting commercial sales of organic poultry feed in the spring of 2021 and retail sales in the fall of 2023. We now grow crops on 325 acres, house 8,200 organic hens, supply commercial and retail feed across BC and Alberta and graze a small beef herd annually. We are well on our way to our vision!