Métis rancher Tyler Lee has plans for the future of his farm on the west side of Lake Manitoba. Many of them revolve around regenerative agriculture. As Canada approaches the 2026 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’ve also gathered our other stories touching Indigenous agriculture, written across the Glacier FarmMedia network of newspapers and news websites, see the list here: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation reading list.
For Tyler Lee, farming his family’s ranch north of Amaranth on the west side of Lake Manitoba is about more than raising cattle. It is also about figuring out how to keep a family farm on the land, and how to farm in a way that restores the soil his family considers part of their homeland.
Lee, who operates Mossy Rock Cattle Company with his family, is a Red River Métis producer whose approach to agriculture has changed significantly in recent years. In 2019, he and his brother decided to move away from conventional practices and into regenerative agriculture.
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