Will We Plant in the Field 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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Hoophouse 3 (planted February 20th) is finally making some great progress thanks to sunny days and warmer weather. |
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Plant Sale Pre-Order is Open!
Pre-orders will be packed for delivery/pickup May 14th-16th
Start your 2026 garden off with healthy, organically grown seedlings from the farm! Seedlings are grown by us, with care, and the varieties are ones we know and love. Pre-order for Best Variety: Secure your favourite seedlings early to help us plan for the season.
Pre-ordering closes May 13th at 12 pm and delivery or pickup will be later that week! We will have extras available at our Open House on May 16th and at our farmers market stands on May 23rd.
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Visit the farm for a tour and see exactly how we’re growing this season’s harvest.
If you have pre-ordered from our plant sale, this is the perfect time to pick up those seedlings for your home garden. Whether you're looking to plant your own garden or just curious about local farming, everyone is welcome.
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Farm Update
Despite the cold dip we're in right now, we are beginning to feel a breath of spring air on the farm!
Our cold-storage is starting to look empty and the selection of root vegetables has narrowed. It is both nerve-racking to see things running low and a relief to see these vegetables go good homes. We are very thankful to everyone who has supported us over the winter and has been helping eat up everything that we stored!
Our 2026 planted crops are coming along and, especially given our cold-storage situation, we are so excited to see some of them reaching harvest stage. Watching these early crops grow through chilly nights and shorter light hours is like watching a pot of water boil. Things grow much more slowly at this time of year, but front of our minds is that the start of our main-season subscription boxes is also inching closer and closer. That makes us all the more glad to see a few crops, like herbs, starting up again and bigger plantings of lettuce close on the horizon.
We have big hopes for planting in the field this week. We cleared a dry area of the fields last week and thankfully finished preparing the beds before rain came. It will still be challenging and fairly muddy work, but for our little seedlings, the weather is reasonable enough for them to go outside. They'll be happier for it, because they are rapidly out-growing the greenhouse!
Have a question or something you would like to hear more about in a future newsletter? Catch us at the market, farm pickup, or send an email!
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Cilantro (planted in early February) finally large enough to bunch! |
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FARM STORE NOTES
We are in our last few weeks of fall storage carrots!
FROM OUR FARM:
From the Greenhouse and hoophouses: Spinach, dill, cilantro, leek, and chard. 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:
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): Yellow onions and green cabbage. Red, yellow, and russet potatoes.
Through Pfenning's: Ontario mushrooms (King oyster, 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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Sign-up is Open for our Spring to Fall 2026 Subscription!
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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