Rebecca and I would like to share a little of one of our favourite books with you. It’s her birthday and she’s 4 years old today so we are celebrating at the farm by picking tomatoes and reading our favourite books. A well loved copy of First Tomato, part of a charming trilogy of books […]
Roasted Chicken with Apples and Cider: Meet Southern Ontario Canadian Food Heroes Heather and Steve
Great Canadian Food Experience: Southern Ontario Canadian Food Heroes Heather and Steve I’d like to introduce you to Heather Coffey and Stephen Laing of Fiddlehead farms. Along with their farm manager Jess and a handful of interns and wwoofers they organically grow a CSA worth of vegetables in their market gardens, raise pigs with names like […]
garlic scapes and shrimp
Garlic scapes with shrimp is really more of an idea than a recipe. It’s important to cut the scapes off your garlic plants so they can focus on producing a nice bulb, and because they are delicious. We’re coming to end of the season’s 100s of garlic scapes and branched out from using them in much […]
Wordless Wednesday: Our 1st Zucchini
Our first zucchini of the season was delicious despite growing a little too big. Rebecca was certainly impressed.
Eastern Ontario Rhubarb: Crisp in the County
I grew up in the city of Toronto. My mother was from Northern Ontario but really from the East Coast along with the rest of her family. Now we’re growing more and more on a farm in Prince Edward County. I’ve always had rhubarb in all the gardens I can remember and have discovered it […]