Resharing this great untold farm story and Zoom invitation from the Toronto Workers’ History Project: From 1941-52, thousands of Ontario high school women, from cities (including Toronto), towns and rural areas devoted their summers to support agricultural labour during and after WWII. During WWII, our farm produce was shipped to Europe to feed the needs…
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…
Listening to the news and observing social media, it is easy for people to be overwhelmed and immobilized by the impossibility of anything good coming for 2024. The talk of war, rising interest rates, rising cost of goods etc. lets us know that psychologically we are in the season of winter! Farmers understand the season…
Keep Planting! Every year presents its challenges to us and every year we keep returning to the planting of seeds. …
For centuries farmers have had faith in very small seeds. That faith is rooted in deep practices and knowledge of their seeds, their soil, the seasons, of success and even failure. Such a great photo! Taken in 2020 this photo says it all. Here at Willo’Wind we believe spring will come and with it another…
What can be said about 2020 that has not been said already?! It was quite the year? Definitely! It is easy to rhyme off the challenges, and obstacles facing farms and the farming community. Let’s start the year off on another tack – all the things that went surprisingly well this year here at Willo’Wind…
It is spring and the farm is quickly transforming from winter to our growing season. Nature is carving its course regardless of quarantine and stock markets and the overbuying of products at stores! This is reassuring. Seeds are sprouting, the earth is warming and there is work to be done. Your constant support for small,…
Yes, winter is still with us but the CSA program for farmers enables them to get a head start on the season. It helps to plan for the coming season: seeds to buy, fields to plan, hiring of staff, greenhouses to come alive with seedlings. In no time at all February becomes May and markets…
Dear Friends, What a wonderful way to enter the season of Christmas – we have received the birth of a new baby heifer here at Willo’Wind! We are particularly pleased because after a long time of only little bull calves this little heifer will stay here, receive a name “Caramel” (!) and become part of our breeding…
Do You Know Your Farmer? As we launch CSA 2018 here at Willo’Wind we pose a question to all our readers and customers: When you buy your food do you know the farmer who farmed it? Better than any label this knowledge is your best guarantee for where your food comes from. The purpose of…