heartwood farm brochure
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The Heartwood story
rutabaga
june july august september october
beets
dill
parsley onions
garlic
summer squash
kale
spinach
lettuce mix
bok choi
bok choi
snow peas peppers
carrots
snap peas
beans
winter squash
kohlrabi
radishes cabbage
turnips tomatoes
chard
broccoli
turnipscucumbers
broccoli
garlic scapes leeks
spinach
cilantro potatoes
herbs
fennel
fennel
cabbage
radishes
kohlrabi
watermelon
napa cabbage
Here’s our plan for tHe season (but of course Mother Nature will have her say, too) At Heartwood Farm, we farm to inspire
change. We’re about healthy, local food.
We’re about caring for our land and
connecting people to the story of their
food and sustainable farming.
We like to nurture nature’s amazing connectivity through a bio-diverse ecosystem of vegetable gardens, pasture, livestock, maple sugar bush, working animals, naturalized lands, woodlots, wildlife and people. We offer eco-farm experiential learning and tours – and we invite adults and children to experience this wonderful diversity.
We’re all about building community, too. Sharing land and collaborating with trained young farmers helps them take the next step to establishing their own farms, and to bringing more food to local folks like you.
We also offer our spare time and energy as active volunteers in the local food movement. We foster grassroots farmer-to-farmer networks,
donate some of our produce to community organizations, and partner with them to develop urban community gardens that support access to affordable, healthy food for all.
We invite you to collaborate with us (even in a small way) to make that “big picture” connection to issues that matter. It’s not just the fresh veggies you’ll enjoy all season— it’s also about climate change, food ethics, energy use and land stewardship.
Because you know what? We’re all connected!
Cost
IndIvIdual Share
$300
Small Share
$425
large Share
$650
egg Share
$85
SprIng Share
$25
(fresh, local veggies to keep you feeling good)
(a good fit for most couples and families)
(perfect for diehard veggie lovers!)
(that’s just $4.75 a dozen, folks)
(a special one-week delivery on June 9)
we use hand tools and horsepower to connect to the rhythms of nature. it’s about slowing down and being more gentle with our land. it’s about being a bit more thoughtful about the way we farm.
Ecologically producedlocal food
How Heartwood Farm’s CSA season works WHat You GetYour own share of our farm’s weekly harvest delivered straight to central guelph (in a biodiesel-powered truck, of course!) for you to pick up. BYO boxes or bags.
WHen You Get Itevery Wednesday from 6-8pm, for 18 weeks from June 23 to October 20
WHere You Can pICK It upunited Church parking lot at dublin and Suffolk streets, just north of downtown guelph
The CSA story
Community Shared agriculture (CSa) is an
alternative local food system that connects farmers
who carefully grow their food to people who care
where their food comes from.
When you join a CSa, you’re not just a customer
buying farm food, you are a member of the CSa itself,
partnering with the farmer to create a more vibrant,
local food system. By committing to purchasing a
share early in the year, your local farmer can do better
planning with confidence that the produce will have a
timely and appreciative market. as a member, you feel
more connected to the joys and challenges of working
with nature to grow food. You can also revel in the
fact that you’re eating in season, savouring flavours
and connecting to the rhythms and cycles of the
farming season.
ecological farming methods are the key to our
farming operation. We don’t use chemical fertilizers
or pesticides. We respect and preserve natural lands
and watersheds. We minimize fuel consumption by
working with hand tools and horsepower, and because
food travels a short distance from farm to table. We
also use compost and natural planting strategies to
build healthy soil.
CSas are all about healthier, tastier food with no
chemical residues, picked fresh at peak ripeness and
chosen for their vibrant taste and nutrition, not their
tolerance to long-distance travel. We’re less about
convenience than about quality food that comes from
a place you actually know.
The connectivity that a CSa builds is good for the
farmer, good for the eater, good for the earth and
good for our communities. Being a member means you
can feel good about supporting local farmers while
you do some wider good, too. Because when you eat
this way, you’re helping build community resilience
and food security in a changing world.
Supporting local farmers helps our local communities
flourish, strengthens our local economies and ensures
that irreplaceable agricultural lands remain productive.
and moms and dads take heart: kids seem to eat
more veggies when they get to know the farmer, visit
the farm, and taste the natural sweetness of fresher,
carefully grown produce!
ConneCtInG to tHe storY of Your supper
Heartwood Farm CSAOSpringe OntAriO
heartwood Farm CSa | OSprInge OnTarIO
519-833-0712 | val@bluenorth.ca | www.heartwoodfarm.ca
5438 2nd line erin | rr#3 acton, On l7J 2l9
Heartwood Farm CSAOSpringe OntAriO
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Yorkshire St NKirkland St
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Cardigan StExhibition Park
Speed River
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