Choosing a flavorful variety isn’t the only trick to growing a perfect strawberry. Care must be taken from planting to harvest. We not only take our time planting our strawberries perfectly, we go the extra mile when harvesting our crops to ensure you get the tastiest, farm fresh, strawberries.

Elgin County is the perfect place to grow strawberries because of it’s proximity to Lake Erie and its fertile soils. South Western Ontario‘s latitude exposes us to long daylengths during the summer, this allows the strawberry plant and fruit to accumulate more sugars, which is one of the reasons why Ontario strawberries are so sweet.

The most important part of growing strawberries is the harvest. Strawberries do not have a very long shelf life. For this reason, we have picked up a few tricks over the years to prolong the shelf life of our strawberries. This includes; extremely stringent grading policy, as well as a protected growing systems that keeps rain off our berries!

We have been growing strawberries on the same family farm for over 100 years, sustainability is at our core of our families values. We farm using the best and safest organic and conventional resources available. This involves using an Integrated Pest Management approach for monitoring pests, using natural and beneficial insects to control harmful pest, and even modifying our growing environment by using a plastic tunnel to protect our strawberries from rain.

You may have noticed our NEW strawberry packaging. We’ve tried alot of different packaging over the years, looking for a solution that is recyclable or compostable that doesn’t impact fruit quality. We hope you love our new recyclable packaging as much as we do!

Our harvest process has 3 verification points; the harvester who picks and packs each quart, the patch boss who spot checks harvested quarts within the field, gives guidance and further training to pickers if need be, and the grading crew who gives a 360° inspection of the harvested quart, removing any bruised berries and filling any quarts that are not quite full. Simply put, we do not accept bad berries on our strawberry farm! We have always believed, quality must be at the forefront of our business.

With over 40 years of experience growing pumpkins and gourds we always strive for something better. Something reducing our costs of production, preventing soil erosion, increasing soil health, adding organic matter, reducing our herbicide use, and above all producing a cleaner, better pumpkin.

Sounds challenging yes, but when you know the in’s and the outs of the pumpkin patch you start to look for new ways to grow a pumpkin. We were recognized for our efforts in producing a better pumpkin when we were awarded with a Regional Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence because of a unique pumpkin growing technique developed right here on our farm!

The process involves growing a rye cover crop in the fall. When the spring pumpkin-planting season arrives, our custom-made roller knocks down the rye prior to seeding. The new approach has slashed labour costs for weeding, prevented soil erosion, increased soil health and reduced our herbicide use.

Growing the pumpkins on a thick bed of fallen rye also means less contact with the soil which reduces the need to wash off soil, producing a cleaner jack-o-lantern.Even this baby fawn appreciates our no-till planter!

Work begins in the early spring for our cantaloupe and watermelon crop. Each seed is planted by hand into a growing tray and grown in our greenhouse for approximately one month until it is ready to be transplanted into our field.

We plant both cantaloupe and watermelon onto black plastic mulch which helps the plant grow by increasing soil temperature, reducing weed pressure, and conserving soil moisture. Honey bee hives are placed throughout the field in order to ensure each cantaloupe or watermelon flower gets pollinated.

Cantaloupe and watermelon are usually ready to be harvested around the last week of July until early September. We harvest each melon by hand to ensure each melon is treated with the tender care it deserves. Along with this, harvesting each melon by hand ensures only the best melons make it to our market!

Work begins in early spring inside our greenhouse to get a head start on the growing season. Each seed is planted by hand into a growing tray and grown in our greenhouse for approximately one month until it is ready to be transplanted into our field.

We plant into black plastic mulch which helps the plant grow by increasing soil temperature, reducing weed pressure, and conserving soil moisture. Underneath each bed of plastic hides a drip irrigation tube that irrigates our crop.

Jamaican pumpkin are usually ready to be harvested around the first week of September. We harvest each pumpkin by hand to ensure only the best make it to our market.

Not to be confused with varieties that are meant for decoration like Fairy Tale, Musque De Provence, or Calabaza squash. Our variety is authentically Caribbean.

Sweet corn converts its natural sugars into starch very quickly, which is why it can be so difficult to find good sweet corn at a grocery store, or why some places have very inconsistent flavour and quality. If you are going to put the effort in to preparing a fresh healthy meal for your friends or family, we won't leave you disappointed

Our sweet corn is grown a stones throw away from our market, it's travel time from the field to your table takes only minutes, not days. This ensures every cob is consistent in terms of quality and flavour.

Try it on the barbecue! Start by removing a few layers of the husk, leaving 1 layer on to protect the kernels, throw on the barbecue (or even directly in the fire pit) and let cook until slightly golden brown. No salt, butter, or pepper needed!