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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.

Hoophouse 1 freshly seeded and transplanted. Left to right: older chard, mustard greens and radish, arugula, radish and older radish.

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Farm Update

Our first grafted tomatoes will be exiting the healing chamber this week. They have spent the last week in the dark, warm, and moist healing chamber, joining together the rootstock and scion we've selected and combined.

The grafting is simple at its core: select a rootstock with genetics for naturally hardy and supportive roots, and a scion (top) that produces really delicious fruit. We cut the stems of both varieties in half and clip the scion on top of the rootstock. The plants already know what to do and begin fusing their vascular tissue, becoming a new individual. We just provide an environment most conducive to that process.

There are a wide range of specialty equipment available for use in large greenhouses, including tools and even grafting robots in some cases. For our purposes, the more “homemade” approach works where we graft with an exacto blade and our healing chamber is a folding table with a tarp over it and a small heater inside. It still produces robust grafts without very much trouble!

This week on our seed starting schedule, we are excited to begin yellow onions, beets, and choi. We are also starting to seed the spring lettuces that, before too long, will fill our hoophouses and field tunnels. We have a little more time before we’ll need to start prepping the soil in these areas, since the light hours are still short enough that seedlings take longer to grow. It's difficult to predict what conditions will be like next month when we plant them, but since they're already set in motion, we will at least hope we are out of this deep freeze!

We will be eating these tomatoes before you know it! This rootstock was grafted to sakura (red cherry) tomatoes, and they are ready to enter the healing chamber.

FARM STORE NOTES

FROM OUR FARM:

Arugula and radish are available this week. Kale will be taking a break until temperatures warm up and it can grow some more.

From storage: Carrots, beets, sunchokes, celeriac, rutabaga, kohlrabi, winter radishes, red and green cabbages

From the Greenhouse and hoophouses: Arugula, radish, parsley and cilantro.

FROM OUR SUPPLIERS:

PRODUCE

HOPE Eco-Farms (Aylmer): Sweet potatoes.

Great Lakes Farms (Port Stanley): Macintosh, empire, gala, honeycrisp, ida red. ambrosia, sunpunch, golden delicious.

Daryl Myny (Aylmer): Spanish onions

Pfenning's Organics (New Hamburg): Red onions, leeks, red, yellow, and russet potatoes.

Through Pfenning's: Ontario mushrooms,. From further away, shallots, citrus, ginger, 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):

La Houlette de vie (St. Thomas): Sourdough bread and pastries made with local, organically grown grains milled fresh by baker Seth. Bi-weekly through the winter. Available next week!

Artisan Bakery (London): Sourdough bread and pastries made with fresh locally milled Arva flour. Bi-weekly through the winter. Available next week!

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.