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Farm Happenings at Main Street Urban Farm
Spring Special II, May 27, 2021
Last week we released some early Spring produce to get you eating from our urban farm in advance of our planned 2021 launch date. We're experiencing this early produce due to the combination of a fortnight of warm weather earlier in the Spring, and our high tunnel and low tunnels enhancing the grow1 read more »
Farm Happenings for December 17, 2020
All the best for a peaceful snow season and New Year from us on the urban farm!
It has been a transformative year for us all eating from the urban farm. We saw a flip from the past few years where lots of produce went out at market, to a year when scads of veggie baskets were packed for pickup and1 read more »
EFAO Conference December 2020
While many people might reel at the thought of another Zoom meeting, farming can be an isolating career at the best of times, so we were pretty grateful/desperate to shoot the breeze with other farmers at the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario Conference. Tim spent a lot of the week on the p1 read more »
Rooted and Reaching
It's early December, and annually on this week we find ourselves at the Ecological Farmers' Association of Ontario conference. A place at which we've been enriched with relationships, knowledge and farm hacks presented by farmers from around the world. Conferences have been held from the Blue Mount1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 26, 2020
"Late-harvest veggies" has - for us - a similar ring to late-harvest Riesling and ice-wine. It invokes a natural elegance. Plants bringing sugars up into themselves, extending the sweet season of food we eat. At home we're further extending our eating season by cooking our share of the veggies up i1 read more »
mid-November 2020 on the urban farm
You'll be relieved to know we had the plastic off the high tunnels prior to this weekend's heavy winds. The frames can stay up, as they don't catch much wind. The majority of our permanent crops, mostly herbs, as well as semi-permanent strawberries and lemongrass, are now straw mulched for the Wint1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 12, 2020
Welcome to new members joining us Nov-Dec, and welcome everybody to the menu of Kingston-grown produce. While supermarkets give a view of what's in season elsewhere, we solely offer nourishment from the Kingston foodshed.
Here on the farm we continue to harvest and store all that's grown over1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 5, 2020
Welcome to our extended season. Over the past months we have adapted to changing realities in the food system as demand for local food from our farm has increased two-fold. We're glad to have you eating along with us as we provide Kingston-grown produce fresh to you for November-December 2020. Some1 read more »
End of October, 2020
Eating from Kingston's urban farm has opened many of your mouths to the taste of delicious
local vegetables. While planting the garlic on Saturday our nephew was helping and had
brought carrot sticks for his snack. When we mentioned he could eat them right from the farm
he said unequivoca1 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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