How do you see cabbage?! Just a winter storage vegetable pushed to the back of the fridge perhaps! We are adding our voice to the growing chorus of cabbage enthusiasts that are bringing to light what a wonderful and versatile vegetable it is. Aside of being harvested months ago and still packed with Vit. K…
This is Seed Order Week here at the farm. This is the time when Adrian pores over seed catalogues and selects this year’s varieties. Sometimes tried and true, sometimes brand new, all with the intention of a steady growth of vegetables all season long. So many things to consider – soil conditions, weather conditions, pest…
Winter Workshops at Willo’Wind! February 7, 1:00-4:30pm Growing Mushrooms With Jeremy Cooper Learn how easy it is to grow your own! A hands-on workshop on different techniques for growing mushrooms outside. Covering basics like fungal biology, spawn prep, substrate inoculation (straw, logs, sawdust), incubation, and harvesting. Gain the skills, discover the diversity of mushrooms you…
Farmers may not be out in their fields these days but many are hard at work on the issues facing agriculture and the people of Ontario. We hope you take a few minutes to check into the National Farmers Union Ontario updated website. This is a resource you can trust when looking to be informed…
Welcome to the Willo’Wind Winter CSA. We have had an amazing autumn, as if nature wants to make up for the drought in the summer! In addition to the stunning colours all around us, we are glad to be still cutting greens for salad mixes, harvesting lettuce and digging up carrots. As summer now fades…
Twenty weeks of fresh produce and notes from Willo’Wind are now coming to a close! Thank you for your support through the season and we hope that you have enjoyed being part of the Summer CSA. Please be sure to leave out your bin for final pick up so that we can collect all the bins,…
From our archives, a note on shallots and a recipe we hope you enjoy! We constantly get asked about the difference between shallots and onions and hope that these notes prove to be helpful. The pumpkin in your bin is known as a Pie Pumpkin but go ahead and enjoy the seeds and carving for…
How blest we are to live on a farm and see first hand the rhythms of life. It reminds us to be grateful for everything, even when things don’t look so promising! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast and began with a blessing that is attached here. Along with the wonderful produce in your bin…
Well it’s that time of the year when we start scanning the weather app every night for that first frost, cover the crops with row cover we are protecting for the coming late fall and winter months, and say goodbye to some of our fair weather friends. As you may deduce by your bin contents…
First off I just want to give a big shout out to thank and acknowledge the men who migrate from Mexico to work on our farm each summer: Filemon, Nibardo, and Cecilio. These men usually have a heavy workload on their shoulders each season, but this year it has been exceptionally heavy. Not only…