“York Farm Fresh exists to connect customers and community to York Region grown local food, beverages and products at farms, farmers markets and farm experiences.” We have been members of York Farm Fresh for too many years to count. They offer monthly newsletters updating seasonal produce, a map with almost 40 locations offering local food year round or seasonally, and even a “Passport To Freshness” with prizes! Look them up at https://www.yorkfarmfresh.com/ and enjoy the fresh taste of eating local.
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Last weekend Curtis & myself had the great pleasure of attending the first ever “York Farm Fresh Harvest Pour” evening held at the Rouge River Brewery in Markham. This event was a fantastic opportunity to network with farmers in York Region while enjoying free craft beer and pizza that was made in house. I chatted with farmers about their very unique farming operations and all their trials, tribulations & triumphs, while Curtis made new friends at the euchre game table with the Alliance Agri-Turf staff. Good times for both of us and we can’t wait until the next one.
“York Farm Fresh exists to connect customers and community to York Region grown local food, beverages and products at farms, farmers markets and farm experiences.” We have been members of York Farm Fresh for too many years to count. They offer monthly newsletters updating seasonal produce, a map with almost 40 locations offering local food year round or seasonally, and even a “Passport To Freshness” with prizes! Look them up at https://www.yorkfarmfresh.com/ and enjoy the fresh taste of eating local.
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Happy holidays from our family to yours! We appreciate every single one of our customers, and there sure are a lot of you! Whether you own a restaurant, purchase our product for your grocery store, visit our stalls at The Ontario Food Terminal for your wholesale business or drop in to the farm to buy potatoes and sweet corn, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do without you. Ring in the New Year safely, happily and surrounded by your loved ones. Catch you in 2025! You can visit “Our Story” to learn more about who we are and the product that we stand behind.
Welcome to the final day of “Ontario Agriculture Week.” I hope you’ve enjoyed my series of blogs celebrating Ontario farms and the bounty of food grown in Ontario. Today we wish to thank you for all the support you give us. Whether you have our potatoes delivered to your restaurant or buy our potatoes from the grocery store, whether you stop in at our farm stand to purchase our sweet corn and pumpkins or simply support us on social media….we thank you! We wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope you enjoy your time with your family and friends. And now, it’s time for me to cook a turkey and prepare for our rather large family dinner! You can visit the “Farming Equipment” category of The Common-Tater to see many videos and pictures of our equipment.
Welcome to day 6 of “Ontario Agriculture Week” where we celebrate Ontario farms and the bounty of food grown in Ontario. It’s also “National Farmers Day.” So much to celebrate! RJ, John and Curtis are the farmers who work together to grow our crops every year. Today they will be pushing hard to get as many potatoes into the storage as possible before the forecasted 3 day rain even arrives this evening. So if you happen to see them today, or any other farmer for that matter, send them a shout out “thank you!” A simple kind word will boost tired spirits and inspire them with fresh energy to keep them going during the exhausting harvest season. You can visit “National Farmers Day” to learn more about family farming.
I have to admit that I usually wait for perfect weather to take videos and pictures to create blog posts. After all, who doesn’t love blue skies and sunshine? However, one of my good friends from university recently mentioned that it’s interesting how the sun always shines at our farm. So, here’s a video montage of some absolutely miserable, horrible weather that we experienced here at the farm. We are not immune from late April snowstorms, wicked winds and torrential rain downpours. This one’s for you Duane! You can visit “A River Runs Through It" and “Stormy Father’s Day” to see how weather has impacted our crops in previous years.
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