Spend 5 minutes with us as we share some new interview questions we asked Ashley when she was featured in Trailblazher Magazine.

Ashley Turner is the co-owner of Turner Farm. She, alongside her husband and two children operate their small farm in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, where they raise f1 and full blood wagyu cattle. Turner  also teaches sourdough to a worldwide audience through her monthly subscription, online classes and co-authored sourdough book, “For the Love of Sourdough.”

What has been the most challenging aspect of your business?

Social media can be a tricky place to do business as it can be difficult to not drown in all the fast paced noise. There tends to be this “rat race” mentality about it and sometimes that really conflicts with my personality. I am so grateful to be on a platform that can reach an audience for my business, and equally burnt out some days with being on said platform haha. My background is in marketing, and its really challenged my brain to come up with different strategies for marketing that exist more uniquely within and separate from social platforms.

What advice would you give your younger self? 

That all the things her soul longed for eventually come true. And to stop arguing with expectation vs reality because whatever is meant to happen will always find a way and its best to just surrender endor, trust, have faith and do the work.

Who has inspired you most in your life? 

The women in my family. Mostly my mom and my grandmother. Both with completely different roles within their families, but both selflessly surrendering themselves to motherhood. Teaching the importance of the family meal and necessity of tradition. The food from my family traditions are nostalgic and burned into my memory. Smells that are my grandmother’s baking or my mom’s turkey roasting at 5am Christmas morning. They taught me the importance of selfless love as a mother within a family unit, they taught me of sacrifice and flexibility and calm assertive presence with boundaries and deeply rooted faith and morals. They taught me that simply creating a life for our kids to experience joy and purpose is deeply fulfilling. The life I created for my children looks nothing like the life my mother created for us; but everything she did was for us, And in turn, I do the same for my own.

Photography by Nicole Lapierre of Nicole Lapierre Photography

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