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Farm Happenings at Main Street Urban Farm
Farm Happenings & recipe, Oct 27th 2022
And then there were cover crops. Which might not seem exciting to anyone who realises cover crops are food for the soil, not for us humans to eat. But, we are stoked to have cover crops well established and other field space prepared for cover crop seeding.
Cover crops perform a vital role keeping1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 20, 2022
The winter radish are all harvested.
The leaves are turning.
The garlic is mostly planted.
The leaves are golden!
The coolers are filling up.
The leaves are magenta!
Soon the coolers will turn to heaters.
The leaves are falling!
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Thanks ongoing, October 2022
Happy Thanksgiving in this harvest season. We are grateful for all of you fabulous eaters who have joined us to eat from the urban farm on a daily basis. Your weekly, and upcoming monthly, vegetable baskets add meaning to our farm by broadening the eating family from our 5 members to the larger gro1 read more »
First frost 2022
The first frost has come and gone. With it, some plants are now saying goodbye for the season, and fulfilling their post-fruiting role of providing organic matter for the soil and all who dwell there. We feel somewhat upset with these losses, but also release as we are freed from tending to move fo1 read more »
About the farm
A decentralised urban farm in downtown Kingston Ontario, Main Street Market Urban Farm has been run by co-farmers Tim & Tracy Lyon since 2009. We grow vegetables and mushrooms on several city centre plots. And, we also grow the connection between eaters and farmers, eaters and the earth. We fell in love with farming and the food we grow when we tasted the fruit straight from the field. You can get it delivered right to your door by bicycle! Our growing methods follow organic principles in our intensive, market-garden style beds.
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