We love farm life, strawberries, fresh air and working outside. And we love that we can share our farm with you. We’re fortunate to represent the fourth generation of farming in both our families. Be it cattle, market gardening, grain, turkeys or hogs, our roots run deep in agriculture.
We began site preparation in 2004, planted our first strawberry plants in 2005, and have been going strong every since. Thanks to our friends and families who have helped us turn our passion into a successful small business. We are proud to provide you with fresh, delicious fruit.
We have 10 acres of strawberries that are just waiting for you to pick them. We hope to see you out this year, and would like to thank everyone who continues to support local farmers.
We are a small farm located in the heart of the Red River valley. We use ecological and low-till farming methods to produce an array of vegetables. We operate a CSA program, and are involved with the Good Food Cub in the West Broadway neighbourhood of Winnipeg. We also sell at the St. Norbert Farmers Market on Saturdays during the summer.
At Natural Collective, we’ve decided to dedicate our time and resources to ensuring that people in Winnipeg and the surrounding area have a local option for all of their vegetable needs. We run a CSA, sell at various Farmers’ Markets and do restaurant supply.
We are situated 30 minutes south of Winnipeg, Manitoba, just outside of Niverville and on Treaty 1 Territory, our goal is to grow and harvest the best food possible for you to eat. Using no pesticides or herbicides, we want to learn from nature what it’s been doing from the start, and bring you quality vegetables and herbs from origins you can trust.
With enough support we hope to further diversify and begin to build a stand-alone, fully functioning diet that you can count on to feed your family. If that sounds like something you could get behind, give us a shout – Join the Collective.
Ten years in the making – that’s how long we have helped our land undergo a transformation from traditional large scale farming into a chemical free fertile Red River Valley soil again. We don’t use chemical fertilizers or sprays. The land is breathing and functioning like it should. Organic inputs have helped this land produce some of the best tasting and healthiest food you can find.
The Loewen Homestead is also home to free-range animals such as egg-laying hens and roaster chickens. The animals’ diets include fresh spinach, beet tops, Swiss chard and corn. We also add flax and linoleic acid to the layer’s diet to boost omega 3 content in the eggs.
We deliver the food to your door.
REGION: Winnipeg Delivery
COVID-19 Measures: For delivery, CSA members will have a choice of re-usable bags or cardboard boxes. Upon return, the re-usable bags will be sterilized in a chlorine/water solution of 1/9 and hung on a clothesline in direct sun for 1 day. Farm workers will maintain a 2-meter distance from each other at all times. Hand mandatory hand washing and disinfecting of all tools and surfaces will be done regularly.
Sales from our trailer (Grain Elevator): Signs will be posted at our vending site regarding safe distancing. Only exact change (placed in a neutral drop box) or eTransfers will be acceptable forms of payment.
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.
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 features pastured eggs, from hens that graze a lush mixture of grasses and legumes, under chicken tractors that are moved each day. Nutrients from the plants and protein from the insects make their way into the yolks of these eggs, which the customers of Stony Hill Farm claim to be the most delicious they’ve ever tasted.
Brenda Tjaden and her three children started the farm in 2019 with a rotational grazing project on vegetable gardens. Brenda is a passionate student of regenerative agriculture and works with leading farms and food companies from around the world through her company Sustainable Grain Ltd., and together with her children, offer youth learning opportunities to children of all ages that want to tour their farm and connect with nature while learning about the food system.
New in 2020, Stony Hill Farm is offering U-Pick Wild Saskatoons. The berries will be ready in early July.
For more information and to order eggs for pickup or home delivery, please see
www.stonyhillfarm.ca or text John at 431-777-5242.
