City Street Farms

09/16/2024

08/13/2024

Thank you for taking some lovely pics today of the veggie subscription boxes! 🫶

We had some lovely add ons to offer like local urban honey and farm fresh chicken eggs🤠 There is also a lovely bunch of flowers in there because yes, we do flowers too 😻

It’s been a slow and steady start to our veggie season, but we just gotta stay positive and believe that tomatoes and cucumbers are on the way... 👽

08/08/2024

A fresh batch of bouquets are this morning!

☕️💐💚☀️

08/01/2024

✨We have bouquets ☕️ today & tomorrow!

Our café bunches will be available on a weekly basis, starting on Thursday or Friday each week. We’ll let you know on here when they get dropped off 📆

We only dropped a few off today, and Pause will be closing on Saturday for some much deserved rest 💅🏼so stop by soon if you’d like to scoop one!

07/16/2024

Our weekly & bi-weekly bouquets and harvest boxes went out yesterday 🛍️

This week was full of herbs and garlic scapes 🧄and our flowers are starting to pop now too 🌼

With the funky growing season we’re having, we decided to push our Harvest Boxes out a couple of weeks to better fit our crops, and bouquets will continue as planned for the next 6 weeks 📆

So if you’re a harvest box subscriber, check your email! 💌

06/04/2024

We tried potting up some Strawflower into recycled coffee cups ☕️from our pals and they worked great!

There’s a lot of plastic used in the world of seedlings, so this is a fun alternative to get another use out of single-use stuff and avoid some plastic ♻️

06/01/2024

We’ve been busy planting this week and are in the home stretch 👩‍🌾

We’re experimenting with some companion planted cucumbers 🥒and pole beans, and taking preventative slug measures with hot peppers, onions, cilantro, and egg shells (even though we heard it doesn’t work, we have to throw everything we can at those slimy guys 🐌)

1/2 of us also made a radio appearance on CBC’s Blue Sky this week! 📻Find the episode about Alternatives to Lawns on their website. ⭐️ Note that there was an error at the end of this segment - we will not be at the Farmer’s market on Wednesdays, but rather you can find our veg & flowers through our subscriptions, 🔗 in bioooo.

05/15/2024

Hill Ave farm is seeded! 💪

This is our 3rd season on this yard and the homeowners are going to be xeriscaping the West half, while we tend to some potatoes, carrots, beets, chard, filler flowers, and lettuce on the other half.

All that’s left to do is plant our lettuce plugs in 1-2 weeks, and pull up the cloth once things germinate.

🎬Stay tuned for our debut Hot Tip Minute on why we use burlap on freshly seeded beds 💭

05/14/2024

Did you know we also have a weekly summer bouquet subscription? 💐☀️

Last year we did this for the first time and loved it. Flowers add colour, variety, and pollinator habitat to our farms, and delivering the bouquets each week was a highlight for us and our customers 🧡

Thanks to everyone who has already subscribed! (These are over half sold already). Swipe through for all the details, and head to the link in bio to visit our online store.

🌸If you’re looking for the 4-week option but it’s sold out, please send us a dm and we can adjust stock between 8 and 4 week.

05/13/2024

The garlic is coming along nicely!

Soon we will companion plant strawflower and statice for a dried flower garden 🌸and we have a new patch on the other side of the yard that we filled with potatoes 🥔to help break up the ground.

05/08/2024

Thanks to everyone who braved the wind and came to the seedling sale on the weekend!

We will have the last of our tomatoes, peppers, and basil on our online store this week for perusing 🛍️ We also have a few packs of flowers online that can be direct sown now 🌱🌼

We’ll post on here when the store is updated 📬

05/08/2024

Thanks to everyone who braved the wind and came by the plant sale on Sunday!

We will have seedlings up on our online store this week for a round of pick up orders 🚚 and then that will be it for seedlings this year 👏

04/30/2024

Our Summer Harvest Boxes are available now! 🥬

We’ve offered these on and off in past years, and this season we’re going big. Swipe through for the details ➡️

Each box is delivered right to your doorstep, and we are also working with other local farms to bring you the option of adding honey 🍯and eggs 🥚to your weekly box 😯

Add-ons will be coordinated weekly, with pricing and details sent to subscribers.

Get garden-fresh produce, delivered from our farm to your door with a Summer Harvest Box - 🔗 link in bio to learn more & to sign up 🦋

04/26/2024

🌱Our annual Beer Gardens Plant Sale is next Sunday!🌱

We have your nightshades covered, with our usual variety of tomatoes 🍅, lotsa peppers and eggplants 🍆 , plus some herbs and a few other tag-alongs.

Come for the plants, stay for brunch 🍳

☀️Sunday, May 5th / 11am-2pm / on the patio at The Cure

04/26/2024

🥒Cucumbers doin their thang in our raised beds from a couple years ago.

This year the trellis will be full of Sweet Peas🫛🍬

04/18/2024

Join us next weekend for a discussion on urban farming + 3 films from the National Farmers Union’s “Depth of Field” short documentary series 🎬 on sustainable farming.

We’re excited to be putting this workshop on with SCIC (check out all of their other events in the city!) and it will be our last event for a while as we shift our focus to preparing and planting our farms ☀️ So if you have any questions about what we do and how we do it, this is your opportunity!

It is free to attend, and coffee ☕️, refreshments and light breakfast snacks will be provided. Register here (bit.ly/scic_urban_farming) to reserve your spot and come hang 🐞

04/16/2024

We have ✌️ fun events coming up QUICKLY!

🔹Saturday, April 27th: If you’re interested in learning more about urban farming, about how our farm works, or are curious about what different forms agriculture can take to be more sustainable, this FREE event is for you!

Learn more & register here 🔗 bit.ly/scic_urban_farming

🔹Sunday, May 5th: our 3rd Annual Beer Gardens Seedling Sale at The Cure! We have been busy starting seedlings and we always grow enough to share, so mark your calendars and watch our page for more of what we’ll have for sale 🌱🍅🫑