Lanark Local Flavour - root vegetables

Bowness Family Farm

Bowness Family Farm — Fri, 26 May 2017 03:10:48 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Jackie and Dan Bowness

Phone number:

613-200-6209 or 613-390-0046

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.bownessfarm.ca

Location:

2610 Scotch Line, Perth ON

Closest community:

Perth

Located in a lovingly restored 110 year old log barn, nestled on our family farm is Bowness' Farm to Table. Bowness' offers a variety of local and naturally grown products in our on farm market.

Products:

Variety of local and naturally grown products.

Highland Gem Farm

Highland Gem Farm — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:13:32 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Erin Richan

Phone number:

6138123852

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.highlandgemfarm.ca

Location:

100 Miltons Road

Closest community:

McDonalds Corners, ON

Highland Gem Farm is run by Erin Richan and Mac McCall-Glover, two young farmers reviving the ol' family farmstead in McDonalds Corners in addition to renting land at Elphin Gold Organic Farm. They specialize in high- quality pastured chicken, pork, eggs, and non-certified organic seasonal produce, focused on extending access to produce in the winter months. Highland Gem serves the local community through two Community Support Agriculture (CSA) programs: Protein CSA and Winter Vegetable CSA as well as the Perth Farmers' Markets.

Highland Gem Farm produces high-quality, traditionally-raised farm products, without the use of Genetically Modified Organisms, hormones, or non-emergency antibiotics, while maintaining land integrity using environmentally sensitive and soil generating farming practices.

Please contact with questions or inquiries!

Highland Gem Farm was established in 2017.

Products:

Farm Gate and Market: Seasonal Vegetables, Pork, Chicken, Eggs

Winter CSAs, November-March, depots in Ottawa, Perth, Lanark, McDonalds Corners, Sharbot Lake, November-March:

-Protein: 15lb box mixed meat cuts (pork, chicken, lamb) & eggs: $650 share price per season ($135/month); one pick-up/month.

-Winter Vegetables: a variety of fresh greens, roots, squash, onions, garlic, ferments & more; $500/share: bi-weekly pick-up.

Indian Creek Orchard

Indian Creek Orchard Gardens — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 03:37:41 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Scott Sigurdson

Phone number:

(613) 914-7444

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.indiancreekorchard.ca

Location:

919 Sugar Bush Road, Pakenham, ON K0A 2X0

Closest community:

Pakenham

Indian Creek Orchard Gardens is a small micro farm, intimate in scale. We are nestled on five acres along the shores of the Indian Creek, a small tributary of the Mississippi River bewteen Pakenham and Almonte. At Indian Creek Orchard Gardens we employ a hybrid of regenerative, agroforestry and organic farming principles. Our vegetables are sown between rows of fruit trees, bush fruits and aisles of grape vines. We value what nature brings to the table and attempt to work with it, bringing our intervention to a minimum. We favour low tech, natural, cultural and biological practices over chemical and heavily mechanized ones.

Products:

Arugula, Beans, Beets, Bok Choy, Brocolli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Chard, Corn, Chilipoti Onions, Chinese Cabbage, Cucumbers (seedless, pickling and field varieties), Eggplant, Garlic, Greens, Herbs, Onions, Kohlrabi, Lettuce (6 varieties), Kale, Microgreens, Mizuna, Mustard Greens, Oignons, Peppers (6 varieties), Radish, Spinach, Summer Squash, Tomatoes (over 25 heirloom varieties), Turnips, Winter Squash, and Zucchini.

Microgreens and gourmet salad mixes

C'est La Vie Farm

C'est La Vie Farm — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:10:23 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Nathalie and Brent

Phone number:

613-875-8473

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.cestlaviefarm.ca

Location:

4755 Tatlock Road, Clayton

Closest community:

Almonte

C'est La Vie Farm is a small family run farm located in the picturesque Lanark Highlands, 45 minutes from Ottawa. We grow organic heirloom vegetables, salad mix, greens and fresh herbs. We are happy to offer home delivered CSA shares which also include bouquets of our beautiful sunflowers. In 2012 Brent and Nathalie visited this farm and it was love at first sight. With two ponds on 50 acres, open fields, apple orchards, forested land, a charming old farmhouse and two log barns, it was exactly what they had always dreamt of. That summer they started a small family vegetable garden and continued to develop the soil using gentle organic farming principles and loads of organic mushroom compost. We truly believe that the best tasting and most nutrient dense vegetables come from healthy, well balanced soils, so in 2015 we decided to join the Manotick Farmers Market to start sharing our organically grown produce with others. Based on the feedback we received and how much it meant to us to see others enjoying fresh, local produce, it seemed only natural to start our CSA program. If you have ever thought that you might like to try going local then we invite you to give us a call, check out our website or join us on Facebook. We look forward to hearing from you!

Products:

From arugula to zucchini we grow a wide variety of organic heirloom vegetables as well as sunflowers, fresh herbs and salad mix

Pazab Family Farm

Pazab Family Farm — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:52:08 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Preston and Agata Zaborowski

Phone number:

613-581-7003

Email address:

[email protected]

Location:

1162 Upper Dwyer Hill Road

Closest community:

Almonte

Pazab Family Farm is a small but bountiful farm and gallery nestled peacefully in Corkery Forest amongst the cedar and pine trees. We grow vegetables and raise animals as our family has for over 150 years without the use of chemicals or medications. We plant only certified organic non-gmo and heirloom seeds and supplement our animal’s foraged diets with certified organic feed. We are proud members of Canadian Organic Growers and NFU.

Products:

We offer farm fresh eggs, forest pastured rare breed heritage pork, preserves, bulk canning tomatoes and pickles. We also offer garlic, onions, herbs, carrots, several varieties of beets, turnips, radish, cucumbers, hot and sweet peppers, unique summer and winter squash, pie and carving pumpkins, zucchini, purple potatoes.

Seanic Farms

Seanic Farms — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:27:05 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Roy & Carole Robinson

Phone number:

613-283-3739

Email address:

[email protected]

Location:

437 Poonamalie Side Road

Closest community:

Smiths Falls, ON

We moved to Seanic Farms in 2003, in search of a more peaceful way of life, and began transitioning it into an environmentally friendly and conscientious operating farm. The farm had not been operated for many years and required buildings/fencing to be repaired, and land to be cleared to create new pastures. We researched a number of different types of livestock and settled on the gentle and hardy Highland cattle we had first seen in the United Kingdom. In 2008, our first five heifers and bull arrived, and currently our herd consists of between 20-30 head. Our desire for healthy and wholesome food and the enjoyment of gardening lead us to venturing into the world of market gardening in 2014. Even though we are not "organic certified", we use the same "organic principles and practices," and following our first successful year we have expanded our garden to include more variety of fresh vegetables and delicious low fat, grass-fed beef for our customers.

We are excited to inform all our valued customers that beginning the spring of 2016, we will be offering our very own CSA weekly fresh vegetable basket for a 18 week session. There are only 5 shares left and you can order a half or a full share. We can also offer grass fed beef as part of your CSA package. Pick up will be at the farm on Tuesday's and at the Perth Farmers Market Saturday mornings. For further information contact Carole or Roy 613-283-3739 or by email [email protected]">[email protected]

We have Farmgate Sales available all year.

Products:

Beef sales are by individual cuts, sample package 25 lbs., quarter, half or whole.

Please call 613-283-3739 or email [email protected]">[email protected] for updated list of our variety of vegetables available.

Ashton Station Garlic

Ashton Station Garlic — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 03:08:52 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Dave Cornell

Phone number:

613-257-4688

Location:

1967 Ashton Station Rd. (intersection of Ashton Station & Ormrod Roads)

Closest community:

Ashton

Garlic is king in Dave Cornell's garden.
Sure, he grows a wide range of other crops such as asparagus, tomatoes, green beans and rhubarb, but garlic is his primary focus - 3000 plants covering 13 different varieties.
While Dave has been an avid gardener for 40 years, it was only 20 years ago that he started growing garlic and that was just as a lark to see if he could do it. He had been moose hunting with some buddies when the topic turned to growing garlic and Dave took up the challenge of seeing if he could grow it.
"It started out as a hobby and turned into an obsession" is how Dave describes his two decades of growing garlic. Dave sells directly at farm gate as well as at the Eastern Ontario Garlic Festival held in Verona and the Lanark County Harvest Festival, located at Beckwith Park. His daughter Donna Chute uses his garlic to make jellies such as balsamic fig, cranberry onion and roasted garlic jellies - all marketed under the Ashton Station name.
The flavours of the individual varieties range from mild to strong, some bulbs contain many cloves, others have fewer but larger cloves. "I specialize in the hotter varieties of garlic," Cornell says, stating that this is where the market is these days.
Growing garlic on the scale that Dave does is virtually a full time job during the growing season because of the weeding, watering and fertilizing involved. Dave is a passionate organic gardener and while he is not certified, he does everything organically. He has four compost bins which provides him with compost. He also uses sheep manure and bone meal for fertilizer as well as grass clippings for mulch.

Products:

non-certified organic heirloom vegetables - from asparagus to zucchini
13 varieties of garlic

Waratah Downs Organic Farm

Waratah Downs — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

John Weatherhead/Anne Janssen

Phone number:

613-267-7050

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.waratahdowns.com

Location:

3444 Scotch Line (County Road 10), Perth ON K7H 3C5

Closest community:

Perth ON

After close to two decades of successful farming near Iroquois, Ontario, John Weatherhead severed roots and in the Spring of 2014 relocated to the Perth area. Waratah Downs Organic Farm is a diverse and abundant organic farm situated on 80 acres sandwiched between the Scotch and Upper Scotch Lines, minutes west of Perth. Ten acres of farmland are already in production with a large variety of market vegetables and the barns and pastures are home to cows, sheep, chickens and ducks.
Waratah Downs is certifed by ProCert.

Products:

Full complement of market vegetables, CSA shares. Farmgate sales by appointment. Waratah Downs can also be found at the Perth Farmers' Market, Main Farmers' Market at St. Paul's University and throughout the year at the Ottawa Farmers' Market at Landsdowne.

Parks Family Farm (Sparks Bliss Boers)

Parks Family Farm — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:24:54 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Sandy Parks

Phone number:

613 268 2526

Email address:

[email protected]

Location:

4724 Bolingbroke Road, Maberly,

Closest community:

Maberly

We are a diverse small family farm offering a variety of products to our loyal customers. In the summer we produce a wide variety of non certified garden vegetables with a higher concentration on garlic, both braided and loose, and sweet corn.
We truly enjoy our honeybees both for their incredible pollination capability and the exquisite honey they give us. We extract our honey twice per season giving us the opportunity to sell both spring and fall unpasteurized honey .
We have free range chickens giving us a rainbow of colours. Our customers enjoy seeing white, brown, pink, green and blue eggs in their carton and the fresh free range flavour of the eggs is incomparable!
In the spring we tap a limited number of Maple trees and have a quantity of maple syrup available as supplies last.
My pride and joy are our Boer Goats. Our farm raises both purebred and percentage Boers. The Boer is a hardy meat breed and are easy keepers. Ours only require a lean to for winter conditions and are healthy and friendly. We sell them as purebreds, registered if requested or commercial for meat or hobby. Spring kids arrive in early April and it is optimal to reserve one early . We currently are adding red and spotted genetics to our Boers for eye appeal.
Our firewood is usually preordered and is well seasoned mixed hardwood. Occasionally we have some available.
Everything we produce is the hard work of our own family. We are very happy with what we produce which makes the hard work involved so very worth it!

Products:

Purebred and percentage Boer goats
Garlic : Braided for decoration, loose or seed garlic. Multiple varieties
Sweet corn
Pumpkins
Seasonal vegetables ie tomatoes, beans, cucumbers etc
Honey: unpasteurized extracted for spring and fall honey
Free range eggs
Maple Syrup
Firewood

Bluegrass Farm

Bluegrass Farm — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:58:29 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Leela Ramachandran

Phone number:

613-275-2639

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.bluegrassfarm.ca

Location:

714 Kinch Street, Jasper

Closest community:

Jasper (15 min from Smiths Falls or Merrickville)

We are a new vegetable farm operation located in Jasper, midway between Smiths Falls and Merrickville. We grow a diversity of vegetables in 3 acres of field crops and in an innovative system of heated greenhouses. This allows us to extend our season into the winter months.
Our goal is to help increase the supply of local, high-quality organic produce in Lanark County and Ottawa, particularly during the off-season. Our farm is in the process of organic certification and we adhere to the Canadian organic standards.
We sell our produce through a unique Winter Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. CSA is a model where customers buy a share of a farm's produce up front, then receive a regular basket of food over the farm's harvest season. Bluegrass Farm offers one of the first winter CSA programs in Lanark County, delivering baskets to customers every two weeks from mid-October to mid-March. Each basket is a mix of carefully stored crops from our fall harvest, and freshly harvested greenhouse produce. We offer CSA pick-ups at our farm, in Perth and in Ottawa. Our 2015-2016 Winter CSA shares are now on sale through our website.
We also sell to restaurants and wholesale buyers.
For more information or to sign up for our CSA, please visit our website: www.bluegrassfarm.ca

Products:

We grow a mix of field crops and greenhouse produce. Our produce varies with the season.

Our field crops this year include:

Garlic
Onions and Shallots
Leeks
Carrots
Beets
Parsnip
Potatoes
Winter squash
Brassicas: Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnip, rutabaga, kohlrabi

Our greenhouse crops include:

Spinach
Lettuce - leaf and head
Arugula
Mustard greens
Mild Asian greens (tat soi, mizuna, etc)
Mesclun (mixed salad)
Kale
Chard
Herbs
Bok Choy
Hakurei turnips
Radishes
Green Onions