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    • Fairfields0 commentsSeptember 5, 2021Farmgate, Sweet Corn, Wholesale

    Sweet & delicious corn harvest

    2021 Sweet corn harvest season

    Wonderful bountiful sweet harvest!!

    This year’s varieties included:
    Fisher’s Earliest and Xtra Tender. They are both a little smaller than the main season varieties, Fisher’s is all yellow and Xtra Tender is bicolour.

    Natural Bright:  a white variety that is super sweet.

    Alure: succulent
    Honey Select: delicate sweetness
    Mirage

    As our corn season is in the final stages place your order before we run out or come by the farmgate on weekends to pick your favourites.

    Corn Pricing

    Our farmgate price this year is $11/dozen or $6/ ½ dozen. For 5 dozen, the price falls to $50. We have separate pricing for wholesale, so please be in touch if you are looking for large quantities regularly. We hope to have it available 7 days a week from 11 am onward, but we will update our Facebook page and voicemail if we have any gaps in availability.

    Farmgate prices:
    ½ dozen for $6.00
    1 dozen for $11.00
    5 dozen for $50.00
    Wholesale prices
    $10.50/dozen for first 4 dozen
    $10/dozen for 5 or more dozen

    Alure

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    Honey Select

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    Natural Bright

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    • Fairfields0 commentsAugust 2, 2021Farmgate, Sweet Corn, Wholesale

    Our Sweet Corn is Ready

    Our sweet corn is finally coming ready!

    The late frosts and unseasonable cool weather stunted our early plantings and generally held them back. Now they are coming all at once… Our later plantings are looking great.

    This coming week we will have two varieties, Fisher’s Earliest and Xtra Tender. They are both a little smaller than the main season varieties, Fisher’s is all yellow and Xtra Tender is bicolour. Next week we will start to get Natural Bright, a white variety that is super sweet. After that Alure, Honey Select and Mirage.

    Our farmgate price this year is $11/dozen or $6/ ½ dozen. For 5 dozen, the price falls to $50. We have separate pricing for wholesale, so please be in touch if you are looking for large quantities regularly. We hope to have it available 7 days a week from 11 am onward, but we will update our Facebook page and voicemail if we have any gaps in availability.

    Corn Pricing

    Farmgate prices:
    ½ dozen for $6.00
    1 dozen for $11.00
    5 dozen for $50.00

    Wholesale prices
    $10.50/dozen for first 4 dozen
    $10/dozen for 5 or more dozen

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    • Fairfields0 commentsJune 14, 2021Strawberries, U-Pick, Wholesale

    U-Pick and Pre-picked Strawberries

    UP-PICK STRAWBERRIES IS NOW CLOSED FOR THE SEASON

    Thanks to all new and returning customers for this year's sweet harvest!

    The plants are loaded with berries, slowly turning red! Our berry patch is now in full swing and ready for u-picking and pre-picked orders.

    For pre-picked orders email devanpenney@gmail.com or call 519-665-7982 (landline). We anticipate having a waiting list, so please confirm with us before coming. Our price this year is $37.50 per 6 quart flat (this includes a 50 cent deposit on the flat box, refunded upon return).

     

    Our price for u-pick berries this year is $4/lb., if using your own containers or $5.25/quart, if using the quart baskets provided.

     

    WE ARE CLOSED FOR THE SEASON

    U-Pick times:
    Thursdays 4 pm – 8 pm
    Fridays 10 am – 8 pm
    Saturday 9 am – 6 pm

     

    We will also have limited picking opportunities on other days, by appointment only.

    COVID-19 UPDATE:

    “We encourage you to bring your own appropriate picking containers, no bags please!  If using your own containers, make sure we weigh them before starting to pick.
    For those without containers, we can provide quart baskets and flat boxes (there is a 50 cent deposit on the flat boxes) to carry them in.  We try to reuse quart baskets to reduce waste and Grey Bruce Public Health has assured us that by washing them and leaving them in the sun for several days (UV light) they will be covid-safe!”

    Last year we had a huge surge in demand and sold out quickly for both u-pick and pre-picked. We have more than doubled the production this year, so hopefully, we will be able to meet demand a little better. Nevertheless, if coming from a distance for u-pick, please call or email ahead of time, or plan on showing up as soon as we open.

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    • Fairfields0 commentsMay 11, 2021Rhubarb, U-Pick, Wholesale

    Rhubarb for picking

    Our rhubarb is finally coming ready for picking. The cool weather we have had, slowed it down to a glacial pace…, however, it is finally shooting upward. We should have rhubarb from this Thursday, May 13 till the end of June. We love to eat it fresh and put some away for stewing and baking in the winter. It is especially good with the first strawberries, a celestial match if there ever was one!

     

    We are open for u-pick and pre-picked by appointment. We also wholesale (orders of 10 lbs. or more). Our price is $3/lb. for u-pick, $4/lb. for pre-picked and $2-3 for wholesale (depending on size of order, pickup or delivery, etc.)
    Please call ahead at (519) 665-7982
    (landline so no texts please), or email devanpenney@gmail.com.

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    • Fairfields0 commentsApril 28, 2021Firewood, Greenhouse

    Asparagus and Rhubarb Emerging

    Here we go!

    Asparagus and rhubarb are two of the earliest food plants available for harvest and we look forward to both of them. Like many other early crops in this climate, they are both cold hearty perennials that have been cultivated by humans for thousands of years. Though the stems and leaves of both plants are sensitive to frost, the crowns remain safely protected in the soil and new shoots emerge and grow quickly.

     

    We have just doubled our asparagus planting to between ½ and 2/3 of an acre. It takes several years (and a lot of work!) to get established, so production will be fairly light over the next couple years. After that we should have lots, and plan on selling it at the farm and to wholesale customers. Please be in touch if you would like more information on wholesale opportunities ­­­>>>>

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    • Fairfields0 commentsJanuary 5, 2021Firewood, Greenhouse, Winter

    Cutting FireWood

    The Start of the Season

    We provide the majority of our heat for our home and greenhouse with firewood. Greenhouses are most commonly heated with propane, natural gas, or oil, all fossil fuels that we are trying to avoid. We have a propane furnace, but try to use it only as a back-up, for un-expected cloudy or cold weather and for those cold nights in March and April, when we struggle to get up in the late night and early morning to stoke the fireplace… It’s hard to start the season as tired!

    Lucky for us, we have about 35-40 acres of woodlot, so we are able to sustainably harvest firewood. The theory goes, if you are planting trees and managing your woodlot to increase its size, age, complexity and maturity, the amount of carbon sequestered back into the trees and soil is the same as, or more, than the carbon released through burning. This way we can have a ‘carbon neutral’ heating system for our greenhouse, as long as we don’t use our propane furnace too much…

    Having a greenhouse is important for our sweetcorn production. The climate in our area is challenging for sweet corn, especially organic sweet corn production. Corn does not like cold toes, waiting till the soil temperature is quite warm before germinating. One of the ways we get around this is by starting seedlings in our greenhouse and transplanting them to the field once warm enough.

     

    So, these photos are in a way the beginning of sweet corn production for the season… mmm… sweet corn!

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    Fairfields0 commentsNovember 30, 2020Organic Food, Strawberries, U-Pick

    Our Strawberry Fields

    We started growing strawberries for our foodbox program in 2013. A few years later we started gradually opening for u-pick and by 2018, we started selling small scale wholesale. Of all the crops we grow, we feel that strawberries are the most important to produce organically. It is considered one of the “dirty dozen,” a list of crops that have the highest levels of pesticide contamination. In fact, strawberries usually top the list…

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