Whole Circle Farm

Georgetown Farmer's Market on Saturdays 7am-1pm

Come find us at the Farmer’s markets!  We are in two locations on Saturday mornings, Georgetown and Weston Go Station.  We are also attending the local Acton Farmer’s Market on Thursdays from 4-7pm.  We sell our own meat cuts, freshly ground flour and of course, veggies galore.

Happy people!

Hakurei turnips

Considering the time of the season, our stand looks pretty colourful.  Pink beauty radishes, orange baby carrots, purple kale, red, red Cylindra beets (with their greens of course) and the whitest Hakurei turnips this side of town!  All of our veggies have been picked and processed within 24 hours and you can tell we’re proud of them by our beautiful display and infectious smiles.  We love interacting with customers and we’ve got lots of farm stories to share, so if you are at any of these farmer’s markets, feel free to stop in!

 

In mid June about 20 interns visited from other CRAFT farms (Collaborative Regional Alliance For Farmer Training). The day started with home made Cinnamon buns in the farm store – made with our fresh ground red fife flour – followed by a tour of the vegetable garden and the cows.  One of the cows, Eva, paid the interns a hearty hello. We made a visit to the tomato greenhouse, and then dropped in at the barn where Johann talked  about biodynamics and Rudolph Steiner.

Are Whole Circle cows jumping over the moon? Well not exactly, but some of the young bulls do jump over fences and some have been seen hopping or, hoofing it, over our fences to munch on dandelions and shrubs on the other side.  They are graceful and curious and most of the time they jump back of their own accord and re-join the herd.

These bulls along with the other newborns from the fall are now settled into the farm and have been exploring the pastures.  A new round of youngins was born in the past few months including kittens, chicks, piglets and calves – oh those beautiful cows!

It was a wet and misty last Thursday morning.  As we walked out to work in the garden the cows were coming up the path into the barn. A young calf was following close to its mother on wobbly legs. After a closer look we realized another calf had been born over night. Was this calf number 5 or 6? It turns out she was the sixth calf born within the past twelve days. Her name is Miranda and she is Tara’s third calf. In the past few days two more calves were born bringing the total to eight born in the past eighteen days. There is an even mix of bulls and heifers. It is wonderful to have this new life on the farm. We see it with the animals and in all the vegetables which have shot up in the past week or two. Come visit us and see what, and who, is growing.

Let’s get off to an early start to the season, the Whole Circle Farm Summer CSA starts the week of June 7^th!

Those of you picking up on Tuesdays at the Farm or Guelph your first pickup date is: Tuesday, June 8^th

Those of you picking up on Saturdays in Georgetown your first pickup date is: Saturday, June 12^th

So if you haven’t signed up yet for the CSA you had better sign-up soon!

Further, just to note the Georgetown Market starts June 12^th

Another unique way to use up your excess rhubarb:

4 Cups chopped rhubarb
4 Cups sliced onions
4 Cups brown sugar
2 Cups cider or malt vinegar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp each- cloves, ginger, pepper

Throw everything into a pot, bring to a boil, cook 1 hour. Makes 3 X 500 ml jars. Adjust sugar to your liking. Enjoy.