About Us
Find out more about The Conscious Farm Kitchen, a 100% plant-based, organic, and sustainable prepared meal delivery service.
Who are we?
The Conscious Farm Kitchen is a farm-to-table prepared vegan meal delivery service, delivered to your door across Southern Ontario. We care about helping our customers feed themselves & their families food they can feel good about - which for us means prepared meals that are fresh, organic, sustainable, nourishing, and most importantly delicious.
Founded by Celeste Lopreiato, The Conscious Farm Kitchen is a proudly queer, BIPOC, and womxn owned & run business. We create & cook all of our prepared meals with a small team, gathering ingredients and inspiration from local farmers & food producers, right here on our farm in Grey County (Saugeen Ojibway Territory).
Our menu changes weekly & seasonally, so you'll rarely eat the same meals twice, we also create frozen meals and additional snacks that you can add to your order. With our door-to-door delivery, we aim to make meal planning easy and convenient each and every week.
Our Food Principles
Our team
Celeste Lopreiato (She/Her)
Founder and Owner
Celeste is the heart and soul of The Conscious Farm Kitchen. From childhood days spent cooking and baking, she's grown into a passionate advocate for vegan food, sustainability, and supporting local businesses. After growing up in Toronto, Celeste pursued Environmental Governance at the University of Guelph and spent her summers working on organic farms, deepening her connection to sustainable practices.
In 2019, Celeste founded The Conscious Farm Kitchen, driven by her frustration at the lack of healthy vegan options in her community. What started as a solution to a personal challenge quickly blossomed into a thriving business. Celeste remains 100% involved in the everyday operations, pouring her heart into every aspect of the business.
Her favorite part of running The Conscious Farm Kitchen is the creativity it allows. Every week, she crafts new recipes that showcase the best local and organic produce, bringing fresh and exciting meals to her customers. Beyond the kitchen, Celeste thrives on being part of the entrepreneurial community, especially cherishing her interactions with other young, BIPOC, Queer, and womxn-owned businesses.
Celeste lives on a beautiful farm in Grey County with her partner, Simone, two rescue dogs, and three rescue pigs. Their farm is also the home of The Conscious Farm Kitchen, embodying the spirit of sustainability and community that Celeste is so passionate about.
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Ashley Neal (She/Her)
Kitchen Manager
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I graduated from George Brown College for Culinary Management in 2015. I worked for a catering company located in Dufferin County for 8 years. When I became a mother, I made a decision to focus on working locally and finding a healthy balance between my professional and personal life. This is where The Conscious Farm Kitchen came in. I have been cooking with Celeste since 2022 and have seen how much work and dedication she has for creating plant-based meals while being environmentally friendly and supporting local farmers. It amazes me how much she has accomplished.
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Bio:
When I am not working at The Conscious Farm Kitchen, I am chasing around my 3 year
old. I love to ski in the winter and I also have a small business, Grazing in Grey, that keeps me busy!_
Favourite Meal:
My Favourite meal at The Conscious Farm Kitchen is definitely the Kofta. I always try to make extra to take home for dinner. My son also loves it!
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Tracy Thomson (She/Her)
Cook / Delivery Driver
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I worked for a vegan & gluten free small business in Toronto cooking, doing deliveries and vending at markets. I loved working there and was looking for something similar in Grey County, which I knew would be difficult to find and yet I came across The Conscious Farm Kitchen which was just what I was looking for. A wonderful small team doing awesome things!
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Bio:
I am a new mama to my beautiful daughter River and a fur mama to our rescued French Bulldog, Opie. I drive a light pink 1966 dodge van in the summer & have my own small business, Rambln Made creating ceramics. I love to be outdoors camping, paddling something, gardening, taking on a home project, thrifting & trying new restaurants & breweries!
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Favourite Meal:
My favourite dish is hard to choose and changes as the menu changes but basically anything with the house made feta, the frozen lasagna and the Indian Kofta in Cashew Tomato Curry because YUM!
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Peter Reitzel (She/Her)
Cook / Delivery Driver
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Peter befriended Celeste and Simone (Celeste's partner) mainly over his mad tofu grilling skills and mutual love of television series - the rest is history... Prior to working for The Conscious Farm Kitchen, Peter owned and ran Flesherton’s Bicycle Café, he established and managed the Dubai Film festival box office, was the Artistic Director of Canadia dell’Arte Theatre in Toronto, Senior Manager Customer Relations and Event Ticketing for TIFF.
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Bio:
I love nature, film, collecting records, reading, art, board games, food and honest one on one discussions about real things. I was raised by 5 older sisters and am not afraid to cry. I lives in Flesherton with my rock of a wife and best friend of 28 years. Together we have raised an empathetic son that knows how listen and is a practicing Sitzpinkler, and a daughter who was taught at a very young age not to take ANY shit from ANYONE.
Working for The Conscious Farm Kitchen for the first time in my life I feel like I am entirely part of the solution.
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Nikkita Swann-Stairs (She/Her)
Cook
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Nikkita had been working in the food industry as a cook for five year prior to finding her way to us at The Conscious Farm Kitchen.
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Bio:
Being a part of a womxn owned/run business and
supporting local farms is what I love about working here also being able to make good for people that they enjoy and look forward to each week._
Favourite Meal:
My favourite dish would have to be the Chili Garlic Noodle Bowl, the sweet and spicy sauce is delicious on the rice noodles and fresh
vegetables.
Our Food Partners
We're focused on delivering high quality meals using the best and most nutrient-dense ingredients from local farmers and growers.
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Cedar Down Farm
Check out their websiteWe order produce from Cedar Down Farm 9 months of the year, using about 350-500 lbs a week! It is run by Jeff Boesch and Leslie Moskovits and founded in 2010, located in Neustadt (traditional land of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Odawa, Potawatomi and the Ojibwe/Chippewas). They are certified organic, and use farming methods aimed to support and enhance the health of their soils and that contribute to the health and sustainability of their local ecosystem. They do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides, herbicides or fungicides.
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Pfennings Farms
Check out their websiteWe order produce from pfennings year round, but mainly produce in the deep winter and things that a grown further away (organic lemons & other tropical goodies!). They have a 600 acre certified organic farm in New Hamburg, and act as an organic distributor.
We Care About Sustainability.
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Zero Food Waste
Food waste is a HUGE problem across Canada and we're trying to combat that! By ordering from us, you'll never have any food waste again. Plus, we don't waste ANYTHING in our kitchen. All of our peelings and offcuts are either fed to our pigs on the farm, or composted and used as natural fertilizer.
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No Single Use Plastics
Most meal delivery companies use tonnes of packaging and single use plastics when delivering their meals. We say NO to that! All of our meals are delivered in reusable or compostable containers and any food deliveries we receive are sent in reusable boxes.
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Low Emissions
We personally deliver all of our meals in our super trusty van (you might have seen it around). By doing this, we utilise the best routes possible and don't add to the huge amounts of traffic on the roads. Plus, we source ALL of our ingredients locally. Less time on the road = less emissions. Simple.
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No Harmful Chemicals
We care about your health as much as we care about the environmental health. All of our ingredients are 100% organic meaning they're grown and produced without any synthetic chemicals, fertilizers, orother harmful ingredients.
