On Recycling: We currently have an oversupply of the Ontario Fruit baskets and though grateful you would like to send them our way we really can’t make use of them now. This is what we can and do use, essentially what you receive in your CSA bins from Willo’Wind: egg cartons – best stored open…
This past week we had great response to our call for recipes. We are passing them along for you to enjoy. Carrot Top Chimichurri Roasted Carrot and Beet Top Salad, with Carrot Top Pesto, Pumpkin Seeds and Feta We also received this for those cooks who like unconventional and a dash of this and a…
It has been a tough summer to grow our Salad Mixes due to extreme heat and lack of rain. You will note that you have not been seeing them in your CSA lately. Kale is thriving though! Below you will find a recipe for Kale Pesto highly recommended by a CSA customer. Give it a…
A quick reminder that there is no delivery this week as per our email last week! Pressing Pause to catch up here at the farm. See you next week! ~Your Willo’Wind Farm Team
A key issue in the current trade negotiations is Supply Management. You may have been reading about this in the news. The National Farmers Union has always stood firmly in defense of this practice and the quote below speaks to it. It is a complex issue and if you want to know more head to…
What is in season?! At the markets we come to realize that as fewer and fewer families have access to farm life the rhythms of produce in season are barely known. People come to the market hoping for acorn squash or melons, yet the season is not here. So here is a list of what…
Beet harvest has begun! Often when we are at one of our Farmers’ Markets people will ask us to take the tops off the beets. We are happy to do that because our chickens look forward to market day and the bin of this and that discarded vegetables. But in that same moment another customer…
Sending along a link that is a great refresher in all things garden peas! In your bin this week you will be receiving either snow peas or sugar snap peas. Both have edible pods. Snow peas are long and slender. Sugar snap peas snap with a crispness with peas in the pod a little more…
It is no secret that it not only takes a lot of hard work to start or grow a business but a lot of capital as well. Farming is no exception to this!! Every farm business has that “game changer” next piece of equipment, building infrastructure, or greenhouse etc. that takes our businesses that next…
Dear friends, It was this time twenty years ago that as a young man trying to figure out the path I wanted to take in my life, I felt the calling to be a farmer. After getting involved in different social and environmental issues, it started to become clear to me that entering into the…