Harvest Table returns Sunday, August 30th, inside the new Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park. This should be a spectacular celebration of local food! We of course are participating as well as many other local growers. Tickets are available online: Harvest Table tickets (Cream-of-the-Crop tickets are already SOLD OUT!)
Lettuce Stands If you love lettuce, you will be in heaven for the next little while. Our greens have finally taken off and are amazing. There will be lots and lots in the baskets in the weeks to come. The mix will contain new ingredients as well as each season we “test” many varieties which [...]
Our favourite variety of garlic is "Music" - a red, heirloom variety with amazing flavour. When we started our farm many years ago, we were the only ones who grew it! This summer we developed our new "Crushed Music Garlic" which we think is a pretty nice product. We harvest our music garlic and immediately [...]
Canadian Organic We are among the first farms in the region to be entitled to use the term "Canadian Organic" as our farm now meets (or exceeds) the Canadian Organic Standards which became effective 30 June 2009. We are proud to exhibit this logo which tells the world that we everything we [...]
ORGANIC FOOD IS STILL THE BETTER CHOICE By Simon Neufeld The CBC reported recently on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s tests for pesticide residues on organic and conventional produce in Canadian grocery stores. The concern about pesticide residues is real: we should be wary of exposing ourselves to chronic low doses of complex and untested [...]
We have been working on new bags for our greens for several years and we have finally found a bag which works very well!! Manufactured in Montreal, they are "breathable" bags like the old Ziplock bags and can keep product as fresh as the day picked for up to two weeks (not that [...]
What we do best (we hope)! After nearly ten years of doing what we do, we have learned a lot - not only about organic farming, but also about how to put baskets together which our customers will use and enjoy. We try never to "dump" produce on our customers but rather to [...]
