Blog & News
The Return of Winter
Not unlike yourselves our seedlings hunkered down for this weather abnormality brought to us by a polar vortex. Our small team of farm hands finished packing last week’s order of Farm Boxes and Mother’s Day bundles to head [...]
Adapting the Supply Chain to Stay Connected
We are starting with two offerings this week which can be picked up at the farm or delivered to specified areas . A Farm Box for $32 containing a nice mix of storage vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, [...]
Lessons Learned; Education Filming
We would like to welcome Julia Morch to our team, Education Film Project Manager. The initial mystery that attends any journey is how did the traveler reach their starting point? How did they get to their ‘destination’ or [...]
Take Me Out to the Compost
With the farm closed to the public, it has provided us some time to appreciate the compost pile. The compost pile deserves as much loving attention as all our other living things on the farm, because it too [...]
Early Spring Farming
Unlike last year spring has arrived on the farm which includes much busy work to prepare for the season ahead. We finally have rebuilt the greenhouse after it was destroyed in a windstorm in early 2019 which means [...]
A Letter from Jim and Leslie
Well, are these not interesting times? We can begin to feel very small and powerless while listening daily to the numbers of illness and deaths due to something so small you need a microscope to see it,. Here [...]
Gooseberries
We are finally all caught up with our plantings on the farm. Farmer Jim and Shannon will be finishing planting the beans and some sunflowers this afternoon. Then the cycle of planting begins again, tomorrow. Farmer Jim staggers [...]
The Buzz on Bees
Celebrate Honey - The Buzz on Bees August 2018 We love our bees and we would like for you to love them too! Bees are so misunderstood. When people think of bees they usually think of bee stings( [...]
June 15th…deadline’s coming!
f you have visited our CSA Facebook Page you will have noticed today's post, titled June 15th... Deadline's Coming! This is a blog post shared by the Bloomfield family of Ilderton, Ontario. This article shares the stress the family and Farmer [...]
Passion for Connecting
The Passion for Connecting Farmer Jim and Leslie were so happy to have met with many of you visiting the farm on the Victoria Day long weekend. Connection to our farm and the farmer who grows your food [...]
A Season of Extremes, Fall 2018
A Season of Extremes First off THANK YOU for supporting the farm this past season. It has been a true honour to grow for your family and share the fruits of our labour with you. We sat down [...]
The Farm Ladies, our chickens. September 2018
Every morning on my into the office space I am greeted by a few ladies who can’t even be bothered to look up at me as they busily point their head downwards. The farm is home to80 Hybrid [...]
Our Bees, July 2018
Celebrate Honey - The Buzz on Bees We love our bees and we would like for you to love them too! Bees are so misunderstood. When people think of bees they usually think of bee stings( Ouch! ) [...]
Terroir Late May 2018
Terroir In this newsletter we are going to take a closer look at the four factors that influence terroir. Terroir is the idea that food has specific qualities influenced by place (soil and climate) the seeds, and the [...]