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Farm Happenings at Main Street Urban Farm
Farm ergonomic strategies
Dear farm shares. The food you eat from our farm comes from the soil. We, the farmers, are the human care-givers for the soil. Soil care is our primary task. The food you eat is the yield from plants living in the soil we nurture. As with anything, (in order to be able to care for the soil) we have1 read more »
The pack shed in August
Our Thursdays are full of share packing. We'd like to tell you a little bit about how it works so you know more about how food gets from the field to your fork.
First thing each Thursday morning we print of all your orders. Each sticker tells us what you've selected for your share, including Addons1 read more »
Snakes, seedlings and solitude
Dear urban farm share members, perhaps you received a happening which said only "lalala"? Ooops, we forgot to complete that draft! We were busy counting crops, planting fall seedlings, pruning tomatoes, celebrating a nephew's birthday, and completing other critical tasks, to remember to write you a1 read more »
August is here
Last Friday morning we put about 2200 seedlings in the ground before we went to Blue Skies for the weekend. Tim popped back to town in the wee hours Sunday to run our Memorial Centre Farmers' Market booth. We hope you're also getting some rest in this season.
Add more to your share by checking out1 read more »
If at first you don't succeed, seed and seed again!
Hi dear farm members. This message comes to you with renewed hope at tomatoes reviving from being crushed, and new beets germinating after the drought-like conditions stunted and killed 75% of our recent planting. We also put in another 400' of carrots and lots of other yummy items we hope you'll e1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 14, 2018
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Farm Happenings for July 10th, 2018
Hi Main Street Market Urban Farm members!
The cutoff for both Thur & Sun has been extended to Tue 11:55pm this week to give you more time to make changes (Vacation Holds etc).
Please bring a bag/ box/basket to pick up your share in. Please contribute any extras you have. Old Farm Fine Foo1 read more »
First news of June
Dear urban farm share eaters. Some of you have had your first share, and others are anticipating theirs. Thanks for coming with us on this agricultural journey including Harvie! For bearing with us when your share was too small, the sign up process was confusing, the item you wanted wasn't in your1 read more »
About the farm
A decentralised urban farm in downtown Kingston Ontario, Main Street Market Urban Farm has been run by co-farmers Tim & Tracy Lyon since 2009. We grow vegetables and mushrooms on several city centre plots. And, we also grow the connection between eaters and farmers, eaters and the earth. We fell in love with farming and the food we grow when we tasted the fruit straight from the field. You can get it delivered right to your door by bicycle! Our growing methods follow organic principles in our intensive, market-garden style beds.
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