Archives: Farms
Long Way Homestead
Anna Hunter and Luke Palka, along with their two sons, moved to Manitoba in the spring of 2015 and began a small farm east of Winnipeg.
They raise a small flock of Shetland sheep, and try to utilize holistic management principles in their farming and mill work.
In summer 2018 they started the only wool mill in Manitoba. They process any protein based fibre in their mill. They are committed to local fibre production and work to support other small-scale producers as well as promoting locally grown, produced and naturally dyed yarn and fibre.
The Dogs Run Farm
Treaty One Territory.
Colin and Katie McInnes have been farming since they moved from Winnipeg in March of 2013.
Their farm near Clearwater, MB is their second location, and their permanent home.
The farm encompasses just under twelve acres on a beautiful valley, with a small unnamed creek, or run, at the bottom, plus 37 acres of rented pasture. Their two farm dogs enjoy roaming the creek, which from a birds eye view resembles a dog’s head. This is how the farm got its name.Food is the most important thing in their lives.
Since making the decision to farm, raising excellent quality food for themselves, their friends and family, and their customers as been their goal.
Colin and Katie raise Dorper sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, laying hens, geese, miniature donkeys, a horse, as well as a few cats and their dogs. They also produce hardneck garlic and log-grown mushrooms. They grow a large garden for flowers and vegetables for their own consumption.
They are always looking for ways to make their farm more efficient and their home more welcoming.They are motivated by commitments to regenerative agriculture, their community, and skills and knowledge that have been passed down through generations. They practise rotational grazing techniques, which helps land to recover and improve in relationship with the animals it feeds. They purchase feed such as hay and grains from their neighbours, which helps to keep the local economy healthy, and insures that they know where their feed is coming from. The grain they purchase for pig and poultry feed comes from close neighbours who practise no-till, poly-cropping, and minimum input farming.
They also enjoy practicing skills such as carpentry, canning, soap making, tapping Manitoba maples for syrup, and gathering food from the wild.Establishing relationships with their customers makes the hard work of farming worthwhile.
If you are interested in becoming a friend of the farm, please contact us.
Tiny Monster Garden
Tiny Monster is a 1/4 acre market garden located on Treaty 1 Territory in Lorette, Manitoba. Producing a diverse and balanced variety of vegetables, using hand-tools, regenerative practices, and with a focus on building healthy soil which in turn supports healthy plants, Tiny Monster is a true example of human-scale agriculture. For our family, this translates into a life engaged with nature, engaged with community, and engaged with meaningful, challenging, and healthy work. The result of this labour is an abundance of local, nutritious, and delicious vegetables, grown to the highest ecological and culinary standards, by nurturing hands.
In addition to growing vegetables, we also forage mushrooms and berries from the forests of Manitoba. These wild treats are highly seasonal, climatically temperamental, and their sustainable harvest requires hours of labour and careful observation. As with our vegetables, the effort is well worth it.
Elemental Earth Gardens
Elemental Earth Gardens is a farm located West of Winnipeg, near Lake Manitoba. There they grow all natural, spray free vegetables, fruits and culinary herbs.
The farm is run and owned by Geert Hemelings and his family.
They use no-till practices that honour and enrich the land through natural systems. They believe it is key to feed the soil, feed the microbiome to increase the nutrient density of the food people consume.
They run a CSA program with delivery and pickup in Winnipeg and Portage La Prairie.
More information on www.elementalearthgardens.ca
Adagio Acres
Adagio Acres is a small, certified organic, family farm located in one of the many forgotten corners of Manitoba (i.e. the interlake), where the land itself has room to stretch out its arms and wild asparagus outnumbers people a hundred to one. We like to think that farming is what allows us to abandon the structure of four walls and schedules for the unpredictable chaos of farming and entrepreneurship. Our children are a big part of everything that we do, and they are along for field inspections, product development, deliveries (they love stocking shelves and putting price stickers on packages), and everything in between.
The main crop that we grow are naked, or hulless, oats. These are an ancient grain variety of oats that do not require heat processing when they are being milled, leaving an oat that can be used for porridge or other oat-y kitchen adventures, but that is less altered from it’s original state. We then mill these oats into rolled, steel cut, or quick cooking form, or leave them whole to be used as a rice-like substitute.
In 2019, we also started up a new project where “leftover” organic grains and pulses from other organic farms around the province are rounded up, cleaned in our oat mill, and made available for consumers here in Manitoba. In the grain farming world, any harvest of less than about 10,000 lbs is considered too small to be able to transport to a processor, so these “small” batches often become on-farm food loss. Our project aims to reduce this food-loss and make the incredible food that was grown here, more available for Manitobans. These lentils, beans, cornmeal, and miscellaneous “other” crops are available through our winter grain CSA.
Stony Hill Farm
Borderland Agriculture
Borderland Agriculture is owned and operated by Brooks and Jen White along with our two young children, Sawyer & Piper. Found in the extreme southwestern corner of Manitoba, we are a 5th generation family farm with a location at Lyleton and Pierson. The name of the farm represents the location with the land bordering both Saskatchewan and North Dakota. The farm is always busy with the diversity of enterprises and at times of the year involves a “Farm-ily” of 8 people all working towards the vision of our operation, “Regenerate”.
As part of our vision of regeneration, the main focus on the farm is integrating bison production into a diverse cropping system. Our total land base is 7500 acres with 5000 of that being annual crop production. Close to 600 bison are integrated into the farm which are helping to build healthy soils and add value to the operation.
Visitors are welcomed to the farm at any time and are invited to discover our world throughout our website and social media.
Located in the Winnipeg area?
Frigs Natural Meats & Cramptons Market & Pineridge Hollow all carry our bison meat! Or visit Prairie Routes (https://www.prairieroutes.com) and choose from a selection of nutrient dense foods locally sourced in Manitoba that will be delivered right to your front door!
Located in Southwest Manitoba?
Peters Market Garden
Peters Market Garden is a 2nd generation family-operated vegetable farm. It is owned and operated by Marlin & Deb Peters on their acreage north of Virden, Manitoba. The operation is highly labour intensive and we employ our own teenage daughters, as well as many local students.
Our high quality produce is available at local farmers markets in Virden and Oak Lake Beach. We also allow customers to pre-order online at www.petersmarketgarden.ca, with various pickup and delivery options. Upon completion of fall harvest, we also provide fall/winter delivery into most rural communities in Southwestern Manitoba and Southeastern Saskatchewan. For 2020, we will also be experimenting with a weekly CSA distribution.
We grow a wide variety of vegetables including tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, onions, beans, peas, sweet corn, potatoes, carrots, beets and many more. We are well known for having some of the sweetest corn available and our pickling customers love the availability of large quantities of gherkin size cucumbers for dill pickles.
We have been serving Virden and area since 1978 with quality home-grown vegetables. Locally grown food is more important than ever. We have always offered the very best in customer service and we guarantee freshness!!!