Owen and Jackie Harder run Harders Heritage Farm at Tuftsville in Stirling-Rawdon. They power their home with solar and wind power and their farm with draft horse power. Grade 12 students from Bayside Secondary School visited the farm in May to learn more about sustainable agriculture. They also visited Donnandale Farms, a very progressive dailry farm generating hydro from manure with a anaerobic digestor.

by Catherine Porter I went out to the Stonegate Farmers’ Market in south Etobicoke one afternoon this week.

It was exquisite: potted basil, fresh apricots, pickled white asparagus, mustard seed loaves all on display in the parking lot of a little Anglican church.

Roger and Valerie Kelly of Kelly’s Berry Farm says they have an excellent crop of cultivated wild low-bush blueberries. You can start picking on Monday, July 19 at 10 a.m. They are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day except Sundays. The price of pick you own is $3 per pound. They advise that you bring a 9 inch high stool as picking can be hard on your back. Also, please bring your own containers.

Please call (613) 338-2535 to check they are open.

You can get high-bush blueberries at West Moira Orchards as well as raspberries and a variety of vegetables and home-grown beef.

Work is going well on revamping this website and everything should be finished by the end of July.