Flemo Farm

06/19/2024

04/18/2024

Name that p**p

04/17/2024

🌱 Join us for EARTH DAY at the farm!
🫛Where?
150 Grenoble Drive ( beside Playground Paradise)
🫛Monday April 22nd
[ 1:00 PM -4:00 PM ]
🫛We will be collecting litter and other garbage from the inside and outside of Flemo Farm. This includes our pollinator garden!
🫛 Gloves, snacks and garbage bags are provided! Please join at any time, your support is appreciated! Remember to bring your hat, closed toe shoes and reusable water bottle.
For more info please contact [email protected]

04/15/2024

Flemo Farm staff are welcoming Spring and inviting you to support our solidarity volunteer days!

We have started up our growing season and have an exciting 25 cubic yards of compost to move by wheelbarrow from our parking lot to the inside of our farm gates.

Please see the details below and feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Involves:
Shoveling, moving wheelbarrows of compost, other farm tasks.
Requires:
- Lifting, working outdoors in sun or rain.
- Dress for the weather, for working outdoors.
- Close toed shoes/boots.
- Bring a water bottle.
- Snacks will be provided.

Dates/times:
- Tuesday Apr 16th (1 pm - 4pm)

Location:
Flemo Farm, 150 Grenoble Dr., North York, ON M3C 1E3 (on the north side of the Playground Paradise Community Centre).
Call Tara on site 416-230-6984, if you have trouble finding us.

04/03/2024

“This survey is to conduct research on Flemindgon Park’s community public resources and whether these resources have been addressed by condo and high rise developments in the neighbourhood. “

This survey was created by a Flemo resident that is also an undergraduate student. Any questions you may have, you will find the contact info in the Google form.

Link to the form is in our bio.

03/26/2024

Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee is seeking individuals to join their Board of Directors for governance and operational volunteer positions!

Check the link in our bio for more info and how to apply.

03/14/2024

How excited are you (STILL) to see your very first seedling come up?

03/06/2024

🥕We are seeking a Flemo Farm Assistant Trainee for a one year contract beginning April 2024, ending on March 31st, 2025🥕
🍅Applicants must be registered with Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment & Training 🍅
🥦Please submit your application by 9am on Monday, March 18th 2024 by using the link in our bio 🥦
🫛If you have questions, concerns or require accommodations regarding this process please reach out to [email protected] 🫛

02/06/2024

We now have a Mandarin translated application available in our linktree. *Deadline to apply is February 18,2024*
Please reach out for support if needed to complete the application package. Any further questions / concerns, please contact: [email protected]
or call: (416) 363-6441 extension. 219

02/02/2024

Flemo Farm has exciting news to share with our Flemingdon and Thorncliffe community members!
🥬WE HAVE 2 NEW FARMER SPOTS AVAILABLE🥬
🚩DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION SUBMISSION IS: FEBRUARY 18th, 2024
🌱As shared last year, the application form can be submitted in any language, and you can ask us for translation.
We encourage you to reach out for assistance when completing the application. 🌱
CONTACT: [email protected]
PHONE: (416) 363-6441 x219
🥦YOU CAN FIND THE APPLICATION PACKAGE IN OUR BIO🥦

Yours in partnership,
FLEMO FARM 🌻

01/15/2024

Hey all! Unified We Grow will be hosting an online workshop via Zoom. Please check out our link in bio to sign up where you’ll receive the zoom invite and a reminder!

11/24/2023

Visited the Marc Garneau CI greenhouse today for their Open (Green)House. Always love to see what interesting things they’re growing and learn along with them.

10/29/2023

Collecting dry bitter melon leaves for tea. Supposed to be great for diabetes. Taste like medicine though.

10/14/2023

CONVERSATION OVERHEARD LAST WEEK:

CASHIER: So next week will be the last market, ok?
CUSTOMER: No, it is NOT okay!

We’ve had a blast bringing the market to you this year. And we love how much the neighbourhood has come out to be a part of it (and to volunteer!) But soon it’ll be time to put the farm to bed and take a good rest.

If you have come out to the market this year, we would kindly request you fill out our very quick end of year survey. Link in the bio.

Last Flemo Farmers Market for 2023. We have lots of beautiful produce for you. Saturday October 14, 10am-1pm at 150 Grenoble Dr

10/07/2023

SATURDAY OCTOBER 7, 10am-1pm: Penultimate Flemo Farmers Market 2023. Yup — then Oct 14 will be our final market. You’ve been meaning to check us out…come see us before the season is over.

A few pics of new items harvested for our Oct 7 market:
-PURPLE CARROTS
-GOLDEN BEETS (ok this is our second round but they are still a novelty for us)
-GINGER
-SUI CHOI

10/05/2023

What a lovely day for a harvest celebration! Yes, the farm salad was notable and the farm bouquets, but not more notable than the company.

Thanks to you, our incredible Flemo Farmers, partners, co-workers and volunteers who came out — and those who couldn’t, but have made a contribution great or small, to helping us run this beautiful space. Thank you also to the bugs, the plants, the creatures big and microscopic, and the Creator. We’ve been so blessed with everyone’s contribution and presence at Flemo Farm in 2023.

09/23/2023

What’s special at Flemo Farmers Market this Saturday Sept 23?🧐

We are SOOOOOO excited to have Chinese Dancers from the neighbourhood performing!!(10am-12pm) 💃🏻

Come out for the entertainment and also show some love to our local neighbourhood vendors, selling fresh organic produce from our own Flemo Farm, body care products, clothing and crafts!

Market is 10am-1pm at 150 Grenoble Dr.

09/18/2023

Sights at Flemo Farm in the plot: huitlacoche/corn s**t

“Corn s**t is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis. One of several cereal crop pathogens called s**t, the fungus forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species such as maize and teosinte. The infected corn is edible: in Mexico, it is considered a delicacy called huitlacoche,[4] often eaten as a filling in quesadillas and other tortilla-based foods, as well as in soups.”

“When corn s**t grows on a corn cob, it changes the nutritional worth of the corn it affects. Corn s**t contains more proteins than the uninfected grains normally do. The amino acid lysine, of which corn contains very little, abounds in corn s**t.”
-Wikipedia

Happy Urban Agriculture Week Toronto, and all the !

09/17/2023

Shocking at first sight. Beautiful bitter melon seeds.

09/09/2023

See you tomorrow at the weekly farmers market from 10 am to 1 pm. Bring your grocery bag as we are a free plastic market. Some snaps of the harvest this week to have in the market from the communal Plot. Thank you Ping for the time and support with the harvest today with the beans. We are at 150 Grenoble Park entrance of the community paradise place

08/18/2023

FREE SNOW CONES at tomorrow’s Flemo Farmers Market, Saturday August 19, served up by ….and of course lots of stunning vegetables. We should roll out a red carpet for them. Had to post the tomatoes twice. They deserve a whole photo shoot on their own. See you there!

07/24/2023

Intercropping

07/14/2023

Here we are with our superstar youths showing off what you’ll find at the Flemo Farmers Market tomorrow, 10am-1pm

07/13/2023

Join us every Saturday from 10-1pm for our market. Our pollinator garden has endless blooms, we have bouquets available for $2🌈

06/27/2023

COMING VERY SOOOOON. Get your reusable shopping bags ready.

06/09/2023

Name those flowers

05/26/2023

Thanks B.U.G.S. Lab for installing these wasp nests today. We’re looking forward working with you to monitor the aphid species that they prey on at our farm.

05/21/2023

Trying out this little hoop house. Figuring out how not to fry the seedlings while using it for hardening off hot crops. Learning experience. Thanks for the loan

04/19/2023

The seeds from have arrived! They are relaxing in a warm bath, to be planted in greenhouse tomorrow. We’re participating in ‘s Okra Variety Trial to identify the most productive varieties of okra across different farms in southern Ontario during the 2023 season. The seed of curiosity about this comes from farm.

04/14/2023

Wish it was me in there