Old Stone Inn

10/12/2026

There are still seats left to this incredible lunch on Wednesday! Come lunch & learn with Her Circle.
Tickets available on our trusty website: www.oldstoneinn.ca/event-list

Do you have your tickets yet? 🤍

Our next Her Circle networking lunch is October 14, and we’d love to see you at the table!

Take a little time for connection, conversation, and encouragement with other women in our community. Bring a friend or come on your own—we’ll have a warm welcome waiting.

📍 Old Stone Inn
🕦 Doors open at 11:30 | Program 12–1
Stay and visit until 1:30.
🎟️ Tickets: $20

Get your ticket at hercirclesoutheast.ca⁠

Pull up a chair. Join the circle.

10/12/2026

Happy Thanksgiving from The Old Stone Inn! 🧡

I’m especially grateful for every guest, neighbor, producer and friend who has walked through these old doors and helped bring this place to life.

I'm also grateful that thanksgiving brought me the gift of a grandson today! So excited to be a grandma to little C**t Wall 🙏

May your day be filled with good food, good people and plenty to be thankful for. 🍂

10/09/2026

That idea you keep putting off…

Maybe it's a collaboration, a new service or something you've been wanting to try. Sometimes, talking it through with another woman in business can help you see your next step.

That's why HER CIRCLE exists: to help women across southeast Saskatchewan connect, share knowledge, build confidence and support one another in business.

Give yourself a lunch break with room for possibility.

Wednesday, October 14 | Old Stone Inn, Estevan
Lunch and program: noon to 1 p.m.
Optional networking from 11:30 a.m. and afterward.

Reserve your seat: https://www.hercirclesoutheast.ca/event-details-1/her-circle-networking-luncheon-2

10/09/2026

See you here!

HER CIRCLE comes together because dedicated volunteers and local businesses believe in women supporting women.

A heartfelt thank-you to our founding partners, Old Stone Inn, Prairie Pathway and Monarch Group. Your time and care behind the scenes make opportunities like this possible.

We'd love to welcome you at the next lunch.

Wednesday, October 14 | Old Stone Inn, Estevan
Lunch and program: noon to 1 p.m.
Optional networking from 11:30 a.m. and afterward.

Reserve your seat: https://www.hercirclesoutheast.ca/event-details-1/her-circle-networking-luncheon-2

09/17/2026

LEARN TO MAKE CURRY WITH SUBREENA KABAN

On Wednesday, September 30th, The Church at The Old Stone Inn is hosting a creative curry class taught by enthusiastic foodie and gloriously enthusiastic human...Subreena Kaban.

Subreena first came through my doors as a guest at a Chef’s Table dinner. She befriended me shortly afterward, invited me over to sample her cooking and began appearing with containers of various delicious things she thought I needed to try.

And then, naturally, I put her to work. 😂

Subreena now occasionally lends a hand during events...plating food, serving, bartending and jumping in wherever she’s needed. She’s certainly not shy about rolling up her sleeves, nor is she particularly shy in general, which is going to make this class even more fun.

She calls her cooking style “traditionally untraditional.” She understands the foundations, but she isn’t afraid to doctor a dish to suit her taste buds or turn yesterday’s leftovers into something completely new.

During this class, Subreena will teach guests how to create a simple, aromatic and deeply delicious curry while encouraging everyone to loosen their grip on the recipe and trust their own palate a little more. There will be more nibbles & bites, along with tips & tricks Subreena & everyone will sit at the big table afterwards to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

She’s also a teacher’s aide, so she knows how to teach and I’m fairly confident she can talk...so you’ll be in very capable hands. 😂

Only 10 tickets are available.

Come cook, taste, laugh and leave feeling braver in your own kitchen.

Here's a picture of Subreena & her Mom, who taught her well!

September 30th - 6:30 p.m. start
Tickets available on the trusty website: www.oldstoneinn.ca/event-list

09/09/2026

A CELEBRITY, A COW & A SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT WALK INTO AN OLD CHURCH…

First, a public-service announcement from the woman who owns the calendar but apparently cannot read it:

The September Chef’s Table Dinner is Friday, September 18th—not the 19th, as I had firmly convinced myself. It also happens to be the very night that, on good authority, a bona fide celebrity will be staying at The Old Stone Inn.

No, I’m not telling you who, but they just MIGHT show up towards the end of the evening, if we dawdle long enough.

As for dinner…the September table is going to be a full-blown harvest bounty. I’m pulling out every stop for the beautiful vegetables being grown around here...the kind that make you wonder why anyone voluntarily eats a tomato in February.

I also have it on good authority that beef will be making an appearance. But not just any beef. Souris Flats Ranch beef.

If you’ve spotted the signage & freezer at Michael’s Coffee Shop & wondered what all the fuss is about over the beef & lamb being raised just down the road, this is your chance to find out. That beef will be taking a starring role on the menu, surrounded by the very best things September can drag out of the soggy Saskatchewan soil.

I’m also attempting something rather sciency. It may work beautifully & make you squeal with delight. It may explode in my face. Either way, it should be worth the price of admission.

The full menu will remain under my toque for now, but expect local abundance, a little kitchen theatre, beautiful plates, unexpected turns & enough mischief to keep the old church walls interested.

Chef’s Table Dinner
Friday, September 18th
www.oldstoneinn.ca/event-list

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

09/08/2026

It's a new year, or what feels like the start of one & there are still a few chairs open at tomorrow’s Her Circle lunch...& I’d really love to see women sitting in them. ❤️

We're excited to share a new format for Her Circle & an exciting new chapter of women helping women in business. Her Circle is about more than eating lunch & exchanging business cards. It’s about walking into a room where you’re welcomed, learning something useful, making genuine connections & becoming part of something that has the potential to grow into a wonderfully supportive force for women in our community.

Come meet someone new. Tell people what you’re working on. Listen to what other women are creating. Share an idea, make a connection, offer encouragement...or simply show up exactly as you are & enjoy being part of the room.

Of course lunch will be delish!

If you’ve been thinking about coming, consider this your little nudge. Her Circle needs women like you...and women like you might just discover that you need Her Circle, too.

Join the circle tomorrow. Come hungry...for lunch, connection & something a little bit special.

Grab your ticket today: www.oldstoneinn.ca/event-list

08/28/2026

Today is my beautiful Mom’s birthday. ❤️

Anyone who has met Susan, my Mom, knows that loving her is almost unavoidable. She is warm, funny, gracious, endlessly kind & just mischievous enough to keep things interesting. Here at The Old Stone Inn, she is especially adored. Guests arrive as strangers, hear her play the piano, share a little visit with her...and before long, they’re completely smitten.

So, because Mom loves a silly poem…

There once was a lady named Susan,
Whom everyone ended up choosin’—
For laughter & cheer,
A piano tune here,
She leaves every heart she meets cruisin’.

She’s elegant, clever & witty,
She’s charming, delightful & pretty.
The Inn may be stone,
But she helps make it home
And without her, it wouldn’t feel nearly as lovely.

Mom, you mean the absolute world to me. I’m so grateful that I get to share not only my life with you, but this wild Old Stone Inn adventure too. You bring love, music & a little bit of magic everywhere you go.

Happy Birthday to our beloved Susan! Please help me shower this wonderful woman with all the love she so freely gives to everyone else. 🎂🎹❤️

08/28/2026

August, you beautiful little show-off.

What a month.

Cory Mercer & his crew from Oxbow TimberMart installed pavers behind the Inn, creating the beginnings of a lovely little courtyard. My pathetic plastic lawn furniture no longer has to sit forlornly on the gravel looking as though it has been evicted. I’m already plotting a beautiful outdoor space that will someday make guests walk around the corner & say, “Oh, WOW.” Just you wait.

I welcomed guests from all over Canada & the United States, many of whom arrived as reservations on my calendar & left feeling like friends. I swear, when you hug someone goodbye, a tiny part of each of you stays with the other...an energy exchange, a little invisible thread. Whatever it is, I feel incredibly lucky to have collected so many of those threads this summer.

I was especially fortunate to host Robin & Arlene Karpan, the award-winning Saskatchewan travel writers & photographers behind Photo Journeys. They stayed for two nights, giving us time to get to know one another over Saskatoon berry pie while Mom held court with stories of the Souris River Valley & my beloved River Road. We sat out back in the courtyard & shared stories until it grew too dark to see each other. If you don't follow their page, go do that right away.

There were intimate dinners celebrating life’s important moments & larger events...including a Producers’ Dinner that completely blew my mind...which tested every nerve & took every square inch of counter space I possess. Thankfully, I had the very best people beside me: Jolene, Sabreena, Ashley & Stathis from Your Farmers Wife, & Olena, who first came through my doors with her husband Yegor while they were finding a home in Estevan & somehow we decided to continue to let our friendship build through dustpans & dish towels. Justin Marcotte & Solomon Murray also helped make the August producers aces, with helping hands & ingredients that beamed love at me. These beautiful people made August possible, kept me upright & prevented me from crawling under a table clutching a wooden spoon.

My son Jake came to visit, which means two things: my heart gets filled & all the heavy lifting gets done. He made my little fruit-tree patch beautiful with mulch & stones, then we drove into the valley to watch the sun set as the moon rose. We let go of what no longer belonged in our lives & opened our hearts to better things coming.

Every dinner I served this month began with ingredients grown or raised close to home. I’m so proud of the relationships I’m building with the remarkable people who grow our food. Even my tables were locally dressed, thanks to Leah from Field & Bloom—a little ray of sunshine who walks through my door carrying armfuls of blooms & leaves the entire Inn sprinkled with flowers. I love that woman. You might still catch her stand at the Estevan Farmers Market but go early as her bouquets are heaven & everyone wants a slice of it.

So, in August I built a courtyard, fed a small army, hugged half the continent, stood beneath a rising moon, fell in love with Saskatchewan food all over again & worked beside some truly wonderful humans.

Not a bad August ❤️

08/22/2026

MEET THE PRODUCER—YES, RATHER BELATEDLY:
TRINDA JOCELYN
BLUE ARROW ACRES — NORTH OF ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan

The plates have been washed, the dining room has recovered & I have discovered Trinda’s bio still standing in the metaphorical garden, waving both arms at me. So, it's late...but certainly not lesser—meet Trinda Jocelyn of Blue Arrow Acres.

Blue Arrow Acres is a small market garden located just north of Estevan, owned by Trinda & operated alongside her husband, Adam. Gardening was part of both their childhoods, so when they began raising their own family on a small acreage, the tradition naturally followed.

As their children grew, so did the gardens. Every year brought a little more ground, a little more ambition & presumably several conversations beginning with, “Do you think we could plant just one more row?”

Now that their children are grown & gone, Trinda & Adam have turned the family garden into something much larger. Their acreage spans twenty acres, with one acre currently in production & plans to expand. Every plant begins from seed right on the farm, grown using natural, organic practices rooted in living soil, hard work & genuine respect for the land.

The romantic version of market gardening is all sunshine & wicker baskets filled with carrots obediently leaping from the earth. The real version includes weeds, frost, crop failures, constant problem-solving & vegetables that occasionally become sworn enemies.
In fact, Trinda once publicly declared pickling cucumbers her nemesis. Blue Arrow Acres now sells pickling cucumbers, which tells me everything I need to know about this woman: she does not take defeat from a vegetable lying down.

Their seasonal offerings change with the garden, but may include beans, beets, peppers, carrots, cucumbers, garlic, herbs, melons, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, zucchini & whatever else Saskatchewan weather has agreed not to murder that particular week.

What I love most about Blue Arrow Acres is the simplicity of its purpose: good food, grown close to home, by people you can actually meet. Their bounty carries soil, family history, perseverance & the immense satisfaction of knowing exactly where your supper came from. True Saskatchewanians!

Trinda contributed to this year’s Producers’ Dinner again & helped make my wildly local menu possible with golden beets & perfect Walla Walla onions.

Thank you, Trinda & Adam, for growing good food, sharing it with this community & indulging one chef who somehow managed to cook the harvest before remembering to post your biography.
Blue Arrow Acres can be found at the Estevan Farmers’ Market, online for farm pickup or right at the farm by prior arrangement. Their dogs, Luna & Kenai, take farm security seriously, so please organize your visit first rather than wandering confidently into their jurisdiction.

From their dirt to your table—albeit with this introduction arriving several days late.

https://bluearrowacres.ca