So why on earth is a potato farm growing soybeans? We use soybeans as part of our essential crop rotation program. Soybean plants breathe in nitrogen found in the atmosphere and release it in a usable form into the soil. This boost of nitrogen keeps our soil healthy for the next time we grow potatoes on the land. Our beans are trucked to a local grain elevator where they are exported to be turned into tofu, soy sauce, animal feed, printing ink and even biodiesel fuel. You can visit “Preparing A Seed Bed” to see how we prepare the land and plant our annual soybean crops.
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Riley is ready for Halloween – are you?? We’ve got you covered if you’ve been procrastinating buying your pumpkins. The farm stand is stocked with homegrown large orange pumpkins and some tiny orange pumpkins that are just the right size for kids. We have white pumpkins as well as some funky novelty pumpkins John & Curtis grew this year. You can visit “Spooky Pumpkin Patch” for a drone fly by of one of our pumpkin patches.
And that’s a wrap for the potato #harvest2025! The very last potato has been moved out of the fields back to our storages at the farm just before the rain arrives. It’s nice to see so many smiling faces in some of these candid clips I captured over the potato harvest this fall. You can visit “The Faces Of Our Farm” to see another video of all of us working during the fall potato harvest.
A quick overview of how our potatoes get from the field into our winter storage on day five of Ontario Agriculture Week. You can visit the “Videos” category in The Common-Tater blog to see all kinds of videos taken here at the farm.
Have we opened a bird sanctuary here at the farm? Nope. We plant a variety of cover crops once we finish harvesting our potatoes and sweet corn. Cover crops help prevent water and wind erosion and can be worked into the land for additional nutrients. However, flocks of our feathered friends view the seeds as a free meal! You can visit the “Animals” category in The Common-Tater to see more videos and pictures of some of the animal friends we spot at the farm.
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