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Fertile Ground Farm

Fertile Ground Farm
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  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Partners
  • Our CSA
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      • CSA Registration
    • Community Shares Program
  • Seedling Sale
    • 2020 Sale Info
  • Contact Us

Our Partners

We sell to and source local products from a variety of small community businesses including restaurants, retailers and other farms.

Half Moon Herbals

Farm & Apothecary

Nikola Barsoum is a certified Community Herbalist, Permaculture Designer, Ecological Farmer, and owner of Half Moon Herbals, which offers an Herb CSA "Remedy Box" program, a Medicine Garden Mentorship program, and Permaculture Consultations for urban and rural locations. Having recently relocated from BC, Nikola will be running her small-scale ecological operation at Fertile Ground beginning in 2021.

 

 

 

 

Pilz Mushroom Co.

 

Our St. Clements neighbour Gisela Gaerdes of Pilz Mushrooms has been interested in mushrooms for over 10 years. She started out by foraging in local forested areas and has since started growing her own. She is currently growing a variety of mushrooms including oysters, shiitake, lion's mane and chestnut. For 2021, she will be offering an optional mushroom share add-on for CSA members who would like to receive a pint of mushrooms with their weekly veggies. We are VERY excited about this offering!

 

Brookfront Farm

 

Andrea of Brookfront Farm sources stone fruits from Palatine Farms in Niagara. Although not organic, the trees are not sprayed after fruit set and pests are managed through IPM (Integrated Pest Management) practices. CSA members are able to order fruit through Brookfront Farms for delivery to CSA pick-ups through the summer months.

 

 

 

 

Laepple Organic Farm

 

All of our CSA potatoes are grown at Linda and Fritz Laepple's certified organic farm just outside of Ayr. The Laepples grow excellent potatoes - much better than our sandy soil will ever produce - and have the equipment to do it without breaking backs like we would. They also provide us with straw to mulch our garlic.

 

 

Vernon Burkhart

 

Vernon took over Bowman's Organic Produce in Wallenstein a couple of years ago and specializes in fall storage crops. Fall crops have always been a challenge for us to manage at our farm as their mid-summer planting schedule comes while we're often overwhelmed with big CSA harvests, drought and weeds. We've been so happy to contract him to grow some of the fall crops for our CSA, including leeks, cabbage, celeriac, onions and sweet potatoes. His vegetables are of fabulous quality and he is pleased to be supporting another local farm rather than trucking his crops to Toronto.

 

 

 

 

Darrell Roes

 

Each season Darrell raises a different assortment of pastured chicken, ducks, pigs and grass-fed beef at his farm just down the road from us. He sells organic (non-certified) meat to CSA members as available. Darrell gets damaged veggies and scraps to use as animal feed, helps with some of our infrastructure maintenance, and provides some the eggs for our egg shares as well.

 

 

Kingwood Farm

 

Mike and Debbie Loepp farm in Wellesley where they grow field squash as well as tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers in their greenhouses. They've been growing squash for our CSA since 2009! Kingwood Farm is a Certified Organic operation.

 

 

 

Retail Partners

Find our vegetables for sale at these fabulous local establishments:

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Organic Store, St Agatha

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Grocery Store, Kitchener

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Buying Club, Waterloo

Restaurant Partners

Eat our vegetables, deliciously prepared, here:

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The Yeti Cafe, Kitchener

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Seven Shores Cafe, Waterloo

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Vernon Burkhart

 

Vernon took over Bowman's Organic Produce in Wallenstein a couple of years ago and specializes in fall storage crops. Fall crops have always been a challenge for us to manage at our farm as their mid-summer planting schedule comes while we're often overwhelmed with big CSA harvests, drought and weeds. We've been so happy to contract him to grow some of the fall crops for our CSA, including leeks, cabbage, celeriac, onions and sweet potatoes. His vegetables are of fabulous quality and he is pleased to be supporting another local farm rather than trucking his crops to Toronto.

 

 

 

 

Vernon Burkhart

 

Vernon took over Bowman's Organic Produce in Wallenstein a couple of years ago and specializes in fall storage crops. Fall crops have always been a challenge for us to manage at our farm as their mid-summer planting schedule comes while we're often overwhelmed with big CSA harvests, drought and weeds. We've been so happy to contract him to grow some of the fall crops for our CSA, including leeks, cabbage, celeriac, onions and sweet potatoes. His vegetables are of fabulous quality and he is pleased to be supporting another local farm rather than trucking his crops to Toronto.

 

 

 

 

Brookfront Farm

 

Andrea of Brookfront Farm sources stone fruits from Palatine Farms in Niagara. Although not organic, the trees are not sprayed after fruit set and pests are managed through IPM (Integrated Pest Management) practices. CSA members are able to order fruit through Brookfront Farms for delivery to CSA pick-ups through the summer months.

 

 

 

 

Fertile Ground Farm

info@fertilegroundcsa.com

226-747-2552

 

Fertile Ground Farm is located on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.