Garlic is one of our favourite crops, making the harvest an exciting time for us. This year’s crop is the first garlic we have grown here at Fiddle Foot Farm and it is looking great! Once we decide that the garlic is ready to be pulled, it is all hands on deck to gather bundlesContinue reading “Garlic Harvest”
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Farmers’ Market Season Begins!
This Saturday (May 5th) is Opening Day at the Orangeville Farmers’ Market on Broadway. We are excited to be back as vendors there after having been away for a season. If our harvest goes well tomorrow, we hope to bring fiddleheads to the market, appropriate as it is the farm’s namesake! For those in theContinue reading “Farmers’ Market Season Begins!”
A Spring that feels like Summer
Ready or not, things are growing! We were already excited about the coming season, and then we had a week of weather in the twenties during which to start our first seedlings and finish constructing a small greenhouse attached to the house. It’s definitely strange weather, but ideal for what we’ve been up to! Here’sContinue reading “A Spring that feels like Summer”
CSA Registration is Open
We are happy to announce that we are now accepting CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share registration for the 2012 season. For more information and to find the 2012 Registration Package, please see our CSA Page. Prior to our move, as many of you know, we provided CSA shares from 2008 – 2010 at Whole VillageContinue reading “CSA Registration is Open”
What do Farmers do in the Winter?
The quiet of winter has, at last, settled over the farm. Winter is the time of year when we take the chance to breathe in. We read and research, we meet with other growers, we attend workshops and conferences, we plan for the upcoming season and reflect on the one that has passed. We look backContinue reading “What do Farmers do in the Winter?”
We have landed
We are happy to have landed in the hills of the Boyne River Valley at Fiddle Foot Farm. We started, when we arrived in June, by ploughing up a section of field for a vegetable garden, then made a home for two calves who arrived in early August. We have made several trips back toContinue reading “We have landed”