On a quiet stretch of prairie just outside Boissevain, there's a place where the sky feels a little bigger and time seems to move a little slower. The Back 40 Hideaway didn't begin as a grand plan—it started with family. When Jen Howarth and Ritchie Barwick opened the doors in September 2023, she was continuing a tradition that runs deep in her life. Her grandmother and mother owned the Trails West Motor Inn in Brandon, and those memories—warm welcomes, coffee on, beds turned
