Farm Happenings at Ontario "Eats" and Holland Marsh Food
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Farm Happenings at Ontario "Eats" and Holland Marsh Food

Welcome August 2020 - Praying for some rain... while making rain.

Posted on July 28th, 2020
Welcome to August everyone,  It's hard to believe this coming weekend is the end of July, start of August.  We are starting to harvest the bunch carrots, a main commodity of our family farm for decades. It is something we specialized in, along with Parsley Root, Celery Root and Leeks. At1 read more »

Farm Happenings...mid July, bring on the summer fruit and Corn on the Cob

Posted on July 21st, 2020
This summer seems to be progressing so fast... Do some of you feel like you lost a few months?  As I continue to clean up the overgrowth of weeds on the farm properties I have this feeling it's getting too late to keep planting. However, '80-90 days to maturity' doesn't bring us to Halloween y1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 16, 2020

Posted on July 15th, 2020
Good Morning everyone,  Hope you are enjoying the slightly less humid temps.  The rain sure helped with our crops growing and being able to plant some more.  This week we transplanted our Shallots, Cipolinni and Tropea onions.  Our potato plants were attacked by the potato beatl1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 9, 2020

Posted on July 7th, 2020
Hello Everyone,  Wow has it been hot the last few days.  Did you know that some vegetables stop growing in such high temperatures?  Celery Root stops growing when its hotter then 28 degrees Celsius. Some plants thrive in hot hot temperatures like some of the hot pepper varieties.&nbs1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 2, 2020

Posted on July 1st, 2020
Happy Canada Day!!  With last weeks rain and this weeks heat our food is growing fast. Lots of new produce ready for picking in all our farming counties. Hope you enjoy this weeks selection.   On our farm I have been battling weeds and bugs. After weeding our specialty potato patch,1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 18, 2020

Posted on June 16th, 2020
Farm Happenings... so much to tell.  We have moved our market from Coffey Road back to the farm. Cleaning up the yards have been challenging since the Bradford Fire Ban. Planting, Seeding have been my priority along with trying to learn and master this Harvie Box Customization program.  T1 read more »