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…
We had a great response to the early bird sign up. All 10 applications arrived within 24 hours of sending out our email, more than half within 8 hours! More have been coming in and so we are sending out this reminder that if you want to be part of the Willo’Wind Winter CSA 2025/26…
This week you will find in your bin a bush bean known as Dragon’s Tongue a: “unique, flashy heirloom”. We are always introducing new varieties of vegetables to diversify and in that way increase our capacity to withstand an everchanging climate. Heirloom varieties have been around long enough to grow in various conditions and may…
People are often astonished that we are still seeding and planting in September. In their minds we are harvesting squash and pumpkins and starting to relax. Not so! Here at Willo’Wind we are getting ready for the Winter CSA and thinking spinach, salad mixes and more. Our Winter CSA 2025 – 2026 begins in November….
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…