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…
Today marks week nine of the Summer CSA. It is always about this time that we press pause and take a week off the Delivery CSAs to catch up with weeding, more planting for the fall, trellising tomatoes etc. So there will be no delivery Tuesday August 12th. We hear that it also helps customers…
Part of our vision for the farm for a sustainable food system is to add varieties of fruit. The challenge is to grow them organically and it takes time to grow a fruit tree! We have met with some success in our plum trees. Our most successful tree was laden with fruit which made it…
So what does a vegetable grower do to be resilient in an ever changing climate? Grow a variety of vegetables suitable to all weather possibilities and grow varieties of each of those vegetables! Mono culture is not resilient. We only need to look at huge fields of corn struggling for water this season to know…
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…