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This urban farm provides a local approach to healthy food in order to help solve the problem of not knowing where our food comes from and what toxins it may harbour, ultimately benefitting our community by growing food in a sustainable way.
Thank you so much for a wonderful first season. We are so thrilled with the support we have experienced from our community and look forward to doing it all over again next season. In the meantime, if you want to be notified when spring brings the first blush of fresh produce (somewhere around the end of March), send us a message and we will put you on our email list.
This week we are having a special: $12 for a variety pack. Could include yellow beans, bok choy, green onions, pear tomatoes, Romas, slicing tomatoes, zucchini, crookneck summer squash, Swiss chard, kale, herbs. Deliveries tbd if enough interest.
Community appreciation. Please feel free to stop by the home farm for free produce. We are filling the farm stand with zucs, tomatoes, peppers etc. Please help yourself and share with others.
This week’s harvest: tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, yellow zucchini, green zucchini, beets, basil, parsley, sage, Swiss chard, and kale. If you want to order something, please give us a shout. Deliveries will resume the week of September 1st, but contactless pickup can be arranged.
Looks like we have five bags of baby greens available also. Let us know if you’re interested
This week’s harvest: zucchini and crookneck squash $2, kale $2, chard $2, gritmire and brandy wine tomatoes $2/pint (average 2/pint), cherry tomato medley $2/half pint, herbs $1 (basil, sage, catnip, parsley, chives, some dill), radishes $2 (limited), beets $2 (limited). Let me know if you want to order. Deliveries to Welland/Fonthill on Thursday; Port Colborne on Friday if there is enough interest.
Check out these adorable combo baskets with eggplant, sweet peppers, and a variety of tomatoes. Just $3 at Wainfleet Market this afternoon or place an order for delivery
This week’s harvest: crookneck squash, zucchini, tomato medleys, kale, Swiss chard, basil, parsley (limited), sweet banana-style peppers, bok choy, sage, green onions (limited). Deliveries to Welland/Fonthill on Thursday and Port Colborne on Friday. Let me know what you want.
This weeks harvest includes sweet peppers, zucchini, crookneck squash, chard, kale, radish microgreens and herbs. Deliveries tomorrow if you want to place an order.
What an exciting day spent with this amazing crew shooting for a documentary on farming. So much fun. A big thank you to our delivery customers who agreed to having their orders pushed a day so we could get this done.
This week’s harvest includes: yellow peppers $3/pint, mixed cherry tomatoes $3, green or yellow zucchini $1, crookneck summer squash $1, kale and chard $2, radish or sunflower microgreens $2, herbs $1 (basil, lemon basil, dill, parsley, catnip, chamomile, sage, mint). Delivery available: Welland/Fonthill on Thursday, Port Colborne on Thursday or Friday. Place your orders.
I remembered lol:
This week we are harvesting the following:
Butterhead lettuce, green leafy lettuce $3 or 2/$5
Kale $2
Swiss chard $2
Herbs $1 (basil, lemon basil, catnip, sage, chamomile)
Crookneck squash (yellow summer squash) $1
Radish or sunflower microgreens $2
Onions (limited quantities) $2
Yellow sweet peppers (limited quantities) $3
Cherry tomatoes (limited quantities) $3
Deliveries to Welland/Fonthill/Port Colborne available this week.
Place your orders and we will confirm inventory prior to delivery
What in the actual ...... is that?!!!
woohoo. They are doing fantastic things here. Check it out.
Free produce for a month:
Small Scale Farms is 5 things.
1. A food hub. We grow food. We sell food. We retail local products. We buy food from producers, distributors and farmers. We want to buy more. The more we buy, the more we can literally grow the market. Purchasing from farmers is our number one goal.
2. An online marketplace for local vendors to sell local goods. A sales channel. A network. A collaboration. An algorithm.
3. A promotable, profitable food system, sustainable to its core. Small scale farming is key.
4. A distribution network. A local distribution network. Why have this many delivery/drivers on the road without a local benefit? At a cost to the environment? Times have changed. We have to change with it.
5. A community. Where we actually come together to support one and other. Somewhere to figure out the work that needs to be done and somewhere to do it.
I just want you to know who we are because Small Scale Farms is me and it’s you. It’s all of us. We are all directly connected to a food system (or lack there of). And we are among many who want to fix it. And who ARE fixing it.
CONTEST DETAILS:
Tell us who you are Niagara. We want to know. But help us tell others who we are by sharing this post too! Better yet, show us who you are with a selfie - or a post a picture of something you love - and we will post as many random pictures as we possibly can underneath yours. Let’s get to know each other and you are entered to win local produce for the entire month of August. You and your family will be welcome to set up weekly visits to pick your own produce, or choose from another farmers produce on our market stand.
Good luck!
Name will be drawn July 30th.
How you keep mosquitos at bay when you work with the beekeeper.
I didn’t realize our “This Week’s Harvest” posts weren’t showing up here. Sorry about that. Message us anytime, but also, I will be smartening up for next week. 🙂
Also, while I’ve got you, we have somehow run out of plastic bags for market and deliveries (I know, I know, I would love to phase out the plastic eventually but our budget doesn’t allow it just yet),…anywho,….if you have any extra plastic (or paper!) bags laying around that you don’t want, we’d love to use them.
THANKS!!
So much lettuce. We have reds, we have greens, we have mixes. $3/bag or 2/$5. Also available - spinach, onions, kale and Swiss chard. Delivery to Welland and Fonthill on Thursday, Port Colborne on Friday.
I got to handle several beehives on my own yesterday (usually I watch and assist). This is the result - two stings. I’ll get more fluid with it.
Last minute touches on deliveries to Port Colborne this morning. Still time to get in on the delivery schedule if you hurry. Shoot me a message if you’re interested.
Looks like we have some scouting happening. When the bees begin thinking about swarming, they send out scouts to, well, scout for a great place to live. This is what’s happening here. Fingers crossed. We’d love another swarm.
Free seedlings out front today. Veggies and some flowers. 408 wright street in welland.
Ooooh, looks lovely.
Aren’t bees the most fascinating creatures?!!
Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees. The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which the patient exhales; the bees fly into a smaller secondary chamber if they detect cancer.
Scientists have found that honey bees - Apis mellifera - have an extraordinary sense of smell that is more acute than that of a sniffer dog and can detect airborne molecules in the parts-per-trillion range.
Bees can be trained to detect specific chemical odours, including the biomarkers associated with diseases such as tuberculosis, lung, skin and pancreatic cancer.
This week’s harvest includes: lettuce $3 or 2/$5 (frilly red, frilly green, butterhead, mixed), fresh herbs $1 (oregano, mint, sage, catnip, thyme, a little basil, a little parsley), spring onions $1, and kale $2. OOPS, also garlic scapes $1. Let us know what you want. Deliveries: Welland on Thursday, Port Colborne on Friday, St. Catharines possible on Saturday with enough interest. Always available for pick-up.
“Wait a second, was that a rabbit?”
“False alarm”
I know it looks like he’s resting, but this is Gordie keeping the farm safe from critters.
Seedlings for sale. $2 or 3/$5
catnip
bachelor's buttons (aka cornflower)
nasturtium
shasta daisies
lemon basil
yellow pear tomatoes
butternut squash
dill
yarrow
Our first day at Wainfleet Farmers' Market. What a great introduction to the community. We can't wait to head back next Wednesday.
Some bags of butterhead lettuce, leafy green lettuce, and spring mix still available. Message us if you're interested. $3/bag or 2 for $5
Delivering in Welland and Port Colborne on Friday. Get your orders in.
If you're in the area, definitely check out this amazing program.
Pick up a mixed odds and ends bag of produce for just $30! This produce bag has what we need to sell to get ready for our upcoming week's deliveries/orders. The purchase of this bag helps keeps things flexible for us, and convenient for you. Details: Pull in and park. Stay in your car. Honk your hor...
This bumblebee was up early and working the comfrey hard this morning
408 Wright Street
Welland, ON
L3B2K5
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Looks like we have some scouting happening. When the bees begin thinking about swarming, they send out scouts to, well, scout for a great place to live. This is what’s happening here. Fingers crossed. We’d love another swarm. #cityfarm #urbanfarm #beeswarm
“Wait a second, was that a rabbit?” “False alarm” I know it looks like he’s resting, but this is Gordie keeping the farm safe from critters. #cityfarm #urbanfarm
This bumblebee was up early and working the comfrey hard this morning #cityfarm #urbanfarm #bumblebee #pollinators
Oh Gordie. #catnip #cityfarm #urbanfarm
Are you getting sick of our swarms yet? We aren’t!! #cityfarm #urbanfarm #beeswarm
This is No. 3 at the #cityfarm. One more, so far, at one of our offsite locations. We are beyond excited. #urbanfarm #bees #beeswarm
So this happened today - we caught our first swarm. Woohoo. Thanks to our neighbour, Marlene, who called to let us know they had arrived. #cityfarm #urbanfarm #beeswarm
The farm room. The hub for micro greens and seedlings. Everything that could be moved outside was moved yesterday. Now it’s a little too clean and tidy in here. Time to fix that. Transplanting Shasta daisies for our May seedling sale. #urbanfarm #cityfarm #seedlings
Cleansing flight. We weren’t the only ones enjoying the warmer temp today. The ladies are looking strong and enjoyed a cleansing flight. #cityfarm #urbanfarm #bees #beekeeping
Winter on the farm -- Neil is doing some masonry at the Comfort Farm and I am working on designing next year's plantings. #urbanfarm #cityfarm
Checkout this beautiful swallowtail butterfly
Checkout this beautiful swallowtail butterfly that just emerged from its cocoon.
