09/09/2026
After a great deal of thought, we have made the bittersweet decision to sell our home and the Frontier Trading Post building in Tompkins and relocate to Eastend, Saskatchewan.
The past two years have meant a great deal to us. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who supported Frontier Trading Post from the beginning and gave us the opportunity to learn the ropes of running a rural general store. What started as an idea became a real business, and along the way we have learned more than we ever could have imagined.
There are many people and many things about Tompkins that we will deeply miss. This community has been our home for 3 years, and leaving it is not something we take lightly. At the same time, we are excited about the opportunity ahead of us in Eastend, where we plan to continue Frontier Trading Post and keep growing the business and the larger vision behind it.
We are also very glad that we aren't going too far. Tompkins will still be close enough for us to come back, visit our friends, and maintain the relationships we have made here.
One of our biggest hopes is that the Trading Post building will go to someone who has a positive vision for Tompkins. We would love to see another business, service, or community-minded project take root there. If someone wants to try their hand at running a business in Tompkins, we are happy to work with them however possible to help give them a good start.
Before listing publicly through a realtor, we wanted to give local people an opportunity to speak with us directly.
For a private sale, we are willing to sell the Frontier Trading Post building for $42,000. Inventory, equipment, fixtures, and other store assets are negotiable, and we are flexible about putting together an arrangement that makes sense for the right buyer.
We are also open to discussing a private sale of our home at a minimum of $110,000, although we expect to list the house with a realtor very soon. Both properties are expected to be formally listed within the next couple of weeks if we do not arrange private sales beforehand.
In the meantime, Frontier Trading Post remains open and operating as usual, and every bit of continued support during this transition is sincerely appreciated.
This decision is being made for larger financial reasons as well as an exciting new opportunity for our business and the project we are building. We feel genuinely excited about what comes next, but that excitement doesn't make saying goodbye to Tompkins easy.
We hope there will be plenty of time to visit with everyone before the move, and before we leave, we would like to hold a farewell event so that we can say a proper goodbye and thank the community that gave Frontier Trading Post its start.
Thank you Tompkins, Saskatchewan for giving us that start. Whatever comes next, we will always be grateful that this is where the Frontier Trading Post story began.
— Frontier Trading Post
