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Fair Sun Farm

Fair Sun Farm

Marnie Chown and Patrick van der Burg

Owned and operated by Marnie Chown and Patrick van der Burg, Fair Sun Farm is a certified organic vegetable farm located in Spencerville, Ontario. We grow delicious and nutritious vegetables for families in our Ottawa area community.

Take comfort in knowing that not only do we grow our vegetables in compliance with the Canadian Organic Standards, but we are also concerned with the health of the soil and natural ecosystems. We work with nature instead of against it! By growing nutritious chemical-free food we feel empowered to hope for a more positive future in our little corner of the world…and we’d love for you to join our community!

Our veggies can be found through our CSA program that serves Ottawa, Kemptville, Brockville and Spencerville.

We participate in two farmers’ markets: the Brockville Farmers’ Market and the Ottawa Westboro Farmers’ Markets, both are on Saturdays between May-October.

Products:

 Variety of certified organic vegetables, CSA subscription

Location:

 3015 County Road 21, Spencerville, ON, K0E1X0

Production Practices:

 Certified Organic

Buy & Savour:

 CSA subscription; Brockville Farmers’ Market and the Ottawa Westboro Farmers’ Markets between May and October

Contact:

 613-914-5572                        contact@fairsunfarm.ca
https://www.fairsunfarm.ca/

 

Almanac Urban Mill & Bakery

Almanac Urban Mill & Bakery

Almanac is an urban mill and bakery in Ottawa’s East End.

We’re committed to sharing delicious, restorative and healthy Canadian food. We source certified organic heritage grains farmed with integrity and transform them into fresh stone-milled flour with purpose and intention.

We believe that by growing the demand for good food we make space for better farming and ultimately create a more sustainable planet.

The Fresh-Milled Difference
Our flour is milled by stones. It’s less efficient than modern commercial roller mills, sure, but we believe that time spent delivering a better product is time well spent.

The past 100 years of commercial flour has focused only on efficiency, and not on nutrition, flavour or impact on the land. It has been a slow and steady march to bleaching, harmful additives, and lost nutrients resulting in higher profits and tasteless bread.

We think the answer is obvious: a return to the simpler flours and heritage grains that nourished us since the dawn of civilization; nothing more or less than the entire seed crushed between two stones, enjoyed fresh, with all of its nutrients and flavour still intact.

That’s why our heritage flours are always milled fresh, ensuring that nothing is lost and that your baking has a richness and depth of flavour you just can’t get with commercial flour.

Why Heritage Grain?
Most grains grown today have been created to maximize yield over nutrition, and often require industrial fertilizers, herbicides and other harmful chemicals.

The “landrace” or heritage varieties of grain that we source are plants that have been locally adapted and developed to local soils and climate, making them naturally disease resistant and allowing them to thrive.

These old varieties are best suited to organic, low-input agriculture where no chemicals are used, providing a nutritious and distinct harvest, without the environmental impact of large-scale farming.

Products:

 certified organic heritage grains, kitchen supplies, drinks, fresh-made baked goods, workshops

Location:

 Almanac, 9-5510 Canotek Road, Ottawa, ON K1J 9J4

Production Practices:

 certified organic, stone-milled grains

Buy & Savour:

 Online ordering for pickup or delivery,

Contact:

 613-229-1133                                    https://almanacgrain.ca/            info@almanacgrain.ca                              Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/almanacgrain            Instagram: @almanacgrain

Maple Meadow Farms

Maple Meadows Farm

Colleen Acres & Dwayne Bazinet

Maple Meadow Farms was established almost a century ago in 1923.  Four generations of Acres’ have operated this successful family farm located in Osgoode ON Canada. Today Dwayne Bazinet, Colleen Acres and their 3 sons participate running and managing the day to day operations.

Maple Meadows is home to a flock of 500 sheep, a small beef herd, a few laying hens and meat chickens as well as a cash crop operation of corn, barley and soybeans.

Raising homegrown beef, lamb, chicken and eggs that are bred and fed here on the farm, we are proud to offer safe, natural, locally produced meat products to our customers. All meat is processed at nearby provincially inspected, licensed abattoirs. Maple Meadows’ meat is available for your freezer or store – natural, local lamb, beef and chicken.

Products:

 Locally raised lamb, beef and chicken

Location:

 6830 Belmeade Rd Osgoode ON

Production Practices:

 Award winning genetics, top quality health and welfare practices and fed only homegrown feeds. Responsible stewardship practices. This ensures our customers obtain lean and muscular cuts of meat harvested at the prime time, combined with unbeatable quality and taste.

Buy & Savour:

 order whole, half, quarter or by the cut. Reach out for price list and contact us
to put your order together ready for pickup.

Contact:

 613-826-2330                              acres@maplemeadows.ca

 

Peabody Farm

Peabody Farm

Sandra Marsters & Pierre Laframboise

Peabody Farm raises heritage pigs, hosts seasonal Markets, Farm to Table Dinners and fundraisers for our community.

A busy Spring brings us a few hundred piglets that get sold throughout the region.

Our beautiful Summers allow us to host Farm to Table Dinners, Barn Dances and Pig Roasts. While you await for your dinner you can walk the farm visiting the piggies and baby donkeys.

Pork purchases also available.

We look forward to hosting you!

Products:

 Farm-to-Table dinners and other events on-site including weddings and dances, Pigs, Pork

Location:

 26 Chemin Sullivan Venosta, QC J0X3E0

Production Practices:

 Self-identified ecological practices

Buy & Savour:

 At the farm, Order online for delivery & pickup

Contact:

 613-558-4517
sandramarsters@yahoo.ca
peabodyfarm.ca

 

Beckta Dining & Wine

Beckta Dining & Wine

Known for our exceptional hospitality, we have assembled an incredible team of professionals to care deeply for you and your guests during your time with us. Our critically-acclaimed fine dining menus are inspired, modern, and seasonal. We offer two menus to choose from at dinner: a delicious à la carte menu, or a five-course, interactive chef’s tasting menu with optional wine pairing for our most elaborate experience.

The Chef:

 Stephen Beckta, Clay Cardillo, Rich Wilson, Katie Ardington, Lukas Zajicek, My Nguyen, Malissa Thok

Savour at:

 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4

Contact:

 613-238-7063
www.beckta.com
Instagram: @beckta_ottawa
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Becktadiningwinebar/ 
Twitter: @Becktadining

 

Ferme Houle Farm

Ferme Houle Farm

Andre Houle & Anik Houle

Ferme Houle Farm is a multi-generational, family-owned and operated farm. Located in Curran, Ontario, we have now been proudly operating for nearly a century. From its humble beginnings as a mixed dairy and potato farm, the last few decades have seen the farm shift its focus to cash crop operations and growing common grains such as corn, soy, buckwheat, wheat, and rye. ​​​​​​​

We started using regenerative agricultural practices in 2018 and obtained organic certification for the first time in 2021. We now offer a multitude of products for both human and livestock consumption.

Products:

 Pastured organic chicken, turkey, pork, and eggs, certified organic sweet corn and potatoes. We also sell ready-to-eat meals at local farmer’s markets.

Location:

 2300 Prescott and Russell County Road 2 Curran, Ontario K0B 1C0

Production Practices:

 Certified organic (no use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or antibiotics), regenerative practices, cover cropping, pasturing livestock,

Buy & Savour:

 Buy online for pickup or delivery

Contact:

 613-402-3061
fermehoulefarm@gmail.com
https://www.fermehoulefarm.ca/

Rooted Oak Organic Farm

Rooted Oak Organic Farm

Nikkie & Stewart Oak

Inspired by the principles of Agroecology, Rooted Oak strives to nurture the land and our community using practices that put the environment first. Nikki & Stuart provide full-flavoured organic veggies to Ottawa and Kingston using systems that are sustainable for the environment, customers, and the farmer! For more information about our farm please visit our website: www.rootedoak.ca and sign up for our email list!

Products:

 Organic vegetables

Location:

 9230 Branch Rd, North Augusta, ON K0G 1R0

Production Practices:

 Certified organic

Buy & Savour:

 CSA Subscription, Farm gate stand, The Memorial Centre Farmers Market (Kingston), Byron Linear Park ​Thursdays, 3:30-6:30pm (Ottawa), The Westboro Farmers Market Saturdays, 9-3pm (Ottawa)

Contact:

 613-340-7633
info@rootedoak.ca
https://www.rootedoak.ca/

Nature’s Apprentice Farm

Nature’s Apprentice Farm

Joanna Jack & Alberto Suarez-Esteban

Nature’s Apprentice Farm was born out of our desire to feed our community by learning from and partnering with Nature. Our mission is to empower and inspire you to have healthier, delicious family meals while knowing that your choices are contributing to the betterment of our community and our planet. We also try to reinforce our connection to food and Nature.
We use regenerative agriculture techniques such as no-till, cover crops, animal integration, deep mulches, and dense and diverse plantings to grow a variety of products. We don’t use any chemicals whatsoever, not even those approved for organic production. We are obsessed with bringing more life to the farm, and have created a wetland that is full of frogs and toads, houses for bats, birds and bees, and planted hedgerows of perennial flowers, shrubs and trees to provide them with habitat. Our visitors often remark how loud the farm is, not with human noise, but with wildlife.
We offer vegetables A la carte, salad subscriptions, pasture-raised eggs, u-cut flowers and very soon u-pick berries! We love showing the farm to our clients, making it their own, but we also offer convenient home delivery in Pakenham, Blakeney and Almonte. We also help people transform their backyards into abundant and beautiful spaces for both their families and wildlife.
We encourage everyone to sign up for our newsletter to know what is available every week, to hear about events and workshops, and to keep up to date with exciting developments at the farm.
We look forward to meeting you and showing you around!

Products:

 greens (lettuce mix, mini romaine lettuce, spinach, arugula, mustard greens, Swiss chard, sprouting broccoli, microgreens, Kale, bok choi), herbs (cilantro, dill, parsley, mint), fruits (cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, zucchini, winter squash), roots (carrots, beets, salad turnips, radishes, potatoes, green and storage onions), specialty crops (ginger, garlic, popcorn), u-cut flowers, pasture-raised eggs, bird and bat houses

Farm tours, workshops

Location:

 112 Lynx Hollow Rd, Pakenham, ON

Production Practices:

 Regenerative agriculture techniques such as no-till, cover crops, animal integration, deep mulches, and dense and diverse plantings. No chemicals used.

Buy & Savour:

 Farm gate stand, CSA Subscription,

Contact:

 Phone: 613 255 5509
Website: https://naturesapprenticefarm.ca           Email: naturesapprenticefarm@gmail.com Facebook: naturesapprenticefarm                        Instagram: natures_apprentice_farm

 

Nellai Farms

Nellai Farm

Kumari Gurusamy

Working with the soil and observing the vegetables as they grow through the summer, pleases my soul. I started farming in the summer of 2021. At Nellai farms I have a homestead focus, with some amount of commercial production for farmers markets. I decided to grow all the vegetables Indians regularly eat in their curries and salads, like tomatoes, onion, hot peppers, bell peppers, potatoes, carrots, peas, beans, okra, cucumber, pumpkins, bitter gourds and bottle gourds. Life feels meaningful cooking food with vegetables that my children can see growing at my farm, alongside butterflies, turkeys, deer and many beautiful flowers. One of the non tangible products is personal happiness and peace. When there is an opportunity to share well being with other women, or new immigrants, in the future the farm will be open for community involvement.

As an immigrant mother, who comes from a small town called Nellai, in South India, I am learning to market my produce, in Ottawa main street farmers market, through support and companionship of fellow farmers at Just Food. I have started learning how to grow other marketable green leafy vegetables like lettuce, brussel sprouts and herbs like celery, basil and garlic.

Value added products that are ready to use are more prefered by urban customers, and are more profitable than the farm fresh vegetables. So in the future years, in addition to homestead gardening, Nellai farms is planning on growing crops that can be input for value added products like veggie burger as the focus for the market gardening

Products:

 Many types of vegetables

Location:

 2931 Pepin Court, Gloucester ON

Production Practices:

 Self-identified ecological practices

Buy & Savour:

 Just Food Farm Stand

Contact:

 gvkumari@gmail.com                                       Facebook: Nellai Farms