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Farm-fresh vegetables,wild ferments - Kimchi and mountain dry styles, sauerkraut, mushroom oil, etc. Chi Garden's page. Chi Garden is an education farm.
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Chi in Chinese or Japanese Kanji, has its origin from a common herb and much loved veg in some regions of these two countries, called dokudami or 蕺草 JICAO (Houttuynia cordata) that literally means "poison blocking plant”. We are an ecological small market garden, specialize in Asian veggies, herbs and raw fermented products such as Kimchi, mountain dry ferment, sauerkraut and chili sauce. Mushroom

oil and other oil-based preservation. We are a certified organic farm business (by Eco-cert certificate at https://shorturl.at/flGV4). We provide natural farming, fermentation, and food education sessions to groups and community centers, at our farm or client's locations. We cater veggie-forward small events. Email us to arrange. Address: Just Food Community Farm, 2391 Pepin Ct, Ottawa, K1B 4Z3. https://maps.app.goo.gl/QdXqoi5HZzfopJjN8

Find our products at Just Food Farm Stand, Main Street Farmers Market, online (store opening soon), or contact us by facebook ( ), instagram ( ) and whatsapp (6139814568).

12/06/2024

This weekend! December 7-8, from 11am-2pm. We will be part of Holiday Market at Just Food. ADDRESS 2391 Pepin Ct. Free parking, accessible and beautiful Big Red Barn. We have lots of products: kimchi and krauts, sunroot (jerusalem artichoke) - fresh, pickled and soup. Yunnan-style mushroom oil. Saag green curry. Perilla syrup. Herbal tea mix. Spicy natto soy nut ferment. Organic. Local. Cultured. Be sure to stop by the cozy barn kitchen to taste hot drinks, soup, pies and much more.
Big shout out to Bountiful Beaver for their fabulous social media posts and generous community spirit!

12/06/2024

Friends and customers, See you tomorrow or Sunday

11/26/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EbRwgY2wD/?mibextid=WC7FNe

🎄 Join us at the Just Food Community Farm 'Local Flavours' Holiday Market on December 7th & 8th from 11 AM to 2 PM!

Discover festive treats and unique gifts, including offerings from Nanabush Food Forests. Proceeds will support Forêt Capitale Forest's mission to plant and care for more trees in 2025!

🛍️ Stroll through the Big Red Barn to find local goods, organic products, handcrafted items, and delicious food and drinks. Don’t forget to explore the public walking paths and enjoy some holiday cheer!

📍 2391 Pepin Court, Blackburn Hamlet
🎁 Free parking, accessible facilities, and holiday spirit await!

Let’s make this season greener together! 🌱

11/17/2024

Celebrate Sunroot with us on November 30 (Saturday) 2024
with - Culinary and Cultural Exchange | Stories about Sunroot and Ancestral Foods | Warm and Fun Winter Togetherness

When🌞
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Noon-2:30pm
Kitchen opens from 10:30am

Where 🌞
Just Food Community Farm, 2391 Pepin Ct.
Event will be on 2nd floor Kitchen Space at the Big Red Barn

Who🌞
Sunroot lovers and curious. Sunroot community harvest participants. Chef and home chef. Researchers. Growers. We will be a small circle of 12-15 people.

What🌞
🌻Sunroot, its Anishinaabe name Giisizoojiibik means 'roots of the sun'. Also known as sunchoke, jeruselam artichoke, it is in the sunflower family - latin name Helianthus tuberosus. Sunroot is is an indigenous food plant native to our area.
🌻Over the years, tons of sunroot tubers were dug, shared, and enjoyed by those around us. This year we host the first Sunroot Celebration, to encourage exchanges and conversations around this beautiful and versatile plant - a symbol of resilience, abundance, ancestral foodways, and diverse culinary and cultural knowledge.

How🌞
🌻Participants are asked to bring a sunroot dish/drink, art/craft, and/or story to share!
🌻Please list all ingredients in the food items.
🌻Contact [email protected] to request free organic sunroots tubers for the event.
🌻Free tubers to share with participants.
🌻Kitchen opens from 10:30am for onsite food prepping.
🌻For questions email [email protected]

Cost
Free to attend. Donations to Just Food welcome.

RSVP🌞
Space limited. RSVP by messaging Chi Garden on facebook or instagram, or email [email protected].

Sunroot information including recipe ideas below
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rJqetV4ppgodYxqyBfNyo30i7Npw8ct/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R57Rk6YCA6sBv5lH5U1Cmqdk8eCIrnrl/view?usp=drive_link

Thank you❤️ to Just Food for providing the space and supporting the event.

11/09/2024

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-98-in-town-and-out/clip/16107852-chi-garden-sunroot-community-harvest

Sunroot, sunchoke or Jerusalem artichoke. Farmers Sun Shan and Li Bo don't care what you call them. They just want to spread the love for this under-appreciated, tasty tuber. The couple told Amanda about November 9th's community harvest and their plan for a sunroot celebration the weekend of Novembe...

11/09/2024

Listen to our interview on CBC tomorrow morning, about sunroot harvest and celebration this season. It’ll be aired at 8:10am Saturday morning as part of CBC's In Town and Out, with our wonderful host Amanda Putz.

You can listen to it live on CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM or online at https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-98-in-town-and-out.

Listen to In Town and Out on Saturday mornings from 6 to 9 a.m. for stories and interviews about outdoor activities, local food, festivals, community events and more on what’s happening around Ottawa and beyond.

11/09/2024

11/07/2024

Warm days call for deep fall harvest
Hardy veggies made sweeter and robust by frost and slower growth.
Beauty. Everywhere.
And this all goes into a last batch of saag style green curry.
Visible to the eyes this vibrancy of green and purple. Invisible but essential is the abundance of micronutrients from the un-tilled soil and almost-wild ways of growing. ‘Foraging’ these veggies always bring me back to thinking and thanking the ancestors, the seed savers, knowledge keepers, and how they are kept strong by the very same plants.

11/01/2024

Two mega watermelons! Weighing over 10kg or 22lb each. 🍉🍉🍉 and they grew for a loooooooong long time well over 100 days in the field.

10/30/2024

We’re excited to invite you to join us for the community harvest of Sunroot (commonly known as Jerusalem artichokes) on
🌞Sunday Nov 3 (1:30 pm -3:30pm) or
🌞Saturday Nov 9 (1:30 pm -3:30pm)
(choose one of the two dates)
This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about this resilient indigenous plant and worldly vegetable. By helping us to harvest, you will also take home some fresh, nutritious produce and exchange recipes with each other.
If interested, please PM us with your name, people, contact and preferred date. Space limited so reserve your spot soon!
Once confirmed, details will be shared (location, what to bring, etc.)

10/26/2024

This is the last market for the season at Main Farmers' Market!

10/19/2024

What a beautiful day at the Main Farmers' Market 9-2pm! Perhaps the last for the season.

10/07/2024

Harvesting mature bitter melon for seeds!

10/04/2024

Here we are in October! This weekend we will be at two markets. Saturday we will be part of the SMARTNET EV & SUSTAINABILITY SHOWCASE from 10am-4pm and Sunday Just Food Farm Stand from 11-2pm. Both events will be at 2391 Pepin Ct Just Food Community Farm. YES there will be bento box on Saturday from 11::30am onwards until supplies last. Find salad, bitter melon, squash and other veggies and a wide variety of preserves on our table. We will have honey from Capital Bees as well!

09/28/2024

Bento box! This Sunday only. Just food farm stand. 11-3pm. Just Food Community Farm. Fall Farm Fest. Live music. Wagon ride. Workshops. Farm celebration and local farmers market. Thank you to Yi coffee and Tea for the beautiful design.

Address

2391 Pépin Court
Ottawa, ON
K1B4Z3

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 1pm

Telephone

+16139814568

Website

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Videos

Harvesting mature bitter melon for seeds!

Dirt bath is therapeutic to these birds and to bystanders.

Lalalala to our beautiful, returning favourite pole beans. Have samples at the farm stand yay! 11-2pm today Sunday 2391 Pepin ct.

bitter melon singing in the rain with their bitter fragrant flowers and the tiny fruits forming everyday …

rain. music. maple trees. quiet market.

Bitter melon seedlings Chinese variety. They are a beautiful vine to grow and an amazing vegetable to eat.

Main Market here we come. In diversity we thrive.

Natto coming to market tomorrow. Main Street from 9-2.

Beautiful garden friend - garter snake.

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Our Story

We are a small ecological farm situated on the Green Belt of Ottawa, on the JustFood Farm. We have been farming since 2015 and grow certified organic vegetables, especially salad greens. The Chi Garden produces the most diverse salad mix in the region. On average our salad mix has over 20 varieties of fresh leaves and flowers from lettuce, purple bokchoy*, beets green, arugula, asparagus lettuce green*, chrysanthemum green*, pea shoots, sedum green*, goji berry leaves*, radish green, lamb’s quarter, Vietnam coriander*, wild purslane and edible flowers from Chinese kale*, wild mustard & sweet pea, and more!

We sell and deliver locally, and have a weekly farm stand at the Just Food Farm Stand. We make fermented vegetables such as kimchi, ginger-infused garlic scape. Our farm stand also sells fresh savory crepe with greens, ferments, and mushroom oil wrapped inside!