We're Planting Lettuce and Tomatoes this Week! |
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Order vegetables before Wednesday at 12pm for pickup at the Farm (Friday) or Western Fair Market (Saturday).
No delivery or Kitchener market pickup this week.
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Transplanting lettuce in one of our field tunnels last week.
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Join us for a season of produce fresh from our fields to your home.
Each week, we draft a box for you filled with our best seasonal produce, which you can customize to fit your needs and tastes. Then, we harvest and pack everything up for pickup or home delivery!
If you were a member in 2025, its likely you have already been auto-renewed for this season! Look for messages from us about the renewal, or reach out to and we can check on our side so you aren't signed up twice!
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Farm Update
We finished planting in one of the field tunnels last week and now… on to the next one! The next one was weeded and prepped last week in a gap between rainy days. Hopefully, by tomorrow, things will have dried out enough that we'll be able to plant in it without too much difficulty.
When it's rainy on Wednesday, we're planning to plant our first tomatoes of the year! We have been so busy transplanting the backlog of tunnel-bound lettuce into the gaps the weather has allowed that these tomatoes are now in urgent need of planting as well.
Another reason we have put off tomato planting is that the greenhouse beds we plan to plant them in still have lettuce growing in them. We're going to end up harvesting just a few heads of lettuce and transplanting the tomatoes into the open spaces. Two crops growing out of the same space sounds great, especially since the tomatoes will still take time before they bear fruit. The downside of this plan is that finishing the tomato beds and adding compost is a lot easier to do to an empty bed. This time, we will have to do it after the tomatoes are already planted. We will just make it work because growing tomato plants wait for no one!
Our big news on the seed-starting front is that this week, we are seeding lettuce that will be planted in the field. This means the countdown is on for 3 weeks from now, when we hope conditions aren't too harsh on these little plants. Exciting days are ahead!
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Harvesting spinach in Hoophouse 2 last week. It is amazing how warm this unheated tunnel can get when it's still so cold outside! |
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FARM STORE NOTES
FROM OUR FARM:
Living basil plants available!
From the Greenhouse and hoophouses: Flat and curly parsley. Living Genovese basil plants.
From storage: Carrots, sunchokes, celeriac, kohlrabi, and winter radishes. Dried herbs from the farm!
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FROM OUR SUPPLIERS:
NEW! Three new varieties of mushrooms: King oyster, lion's mane, and portabella are available.
PRODUCE
HOPE Eco-Farms (Aylmer): Sweet potatoes.
Great Lakes Farms (Port Stanley): Macintosh, empire, gala, honeycrisp, ida red. ambrosia, sunpunch, golden delicious.
Pfenning's Organics (New Hamburg): Red and yellow onions, red, yellow, and russet potatoes.
Through Pfenning's: Ontario mushrooms (King oyster, lion's mane, portabella, shiitake, and bella),. From further away, shallots, citrus, ginger, and turmeric.
DAIRY and EGGS
HOPE Eco-Farms (Aylmer): Eggs.
Through Pfenning's: L'Ancetre butter and grass-fed cheeses
Gunn's Hill (Woodstock): Brie, Handeck and Five Brother's cheese
FROZEN
3Gen Organics (Wallenstein): Ground pork, sausage, bacon, ham, tenderloin, chops
YU Ranch (Tillsonburg): Pasture-raised ground beef, beef patties, stewing beef
New Leaf Foods (London): Plant-based beet burgers
BAKERY
J&D Peters Tortillas (Aylmer): Spelt, whole wheat and unbleached flour tortillas.
La Houlette de vie (St. Thomas): Bi-weekly through the winter. Available next week! Sourdough bread and pastries made with local, organically grown grains milled fresh by baker Seth.
Artisan Bakery (London): Bi-weekly through the winter. Available next week! Sourdough bread and pastries made with fresh locally milled Arva flour.
PANTRY
Aldred Maple (West Lorne): Amber, dark, or whiskey barrel-aged maple syrup.
Wildflowers Honey (St. Thomas): Unpasteurized honey from hives all over Elgin County, including our farm!
Mat's Fine Oils (Staffordville). Fresh, organic and cold-pressed, hemp and sunflower oil. Store in the refrigerator.
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PICKUP OPTIONS THIS WEEK
Farm pickup: Friday 1pm-7pm
Western Fair Market pickup: Saturday 8 am to 3 pm / Sunday 10 am to 2pm
We love to re-use wherever possible! We can take our CGF boxes and liner bags, strawberry and blueberry baskets/boxes, milk bottles, and egg cartons.
For deliveries, please leave these return items out where you would like your order dropped off. Thank you!
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