COOKSTOWN GREENS

Cookstown Greens ecologically grows specialty organic produce: salad greens, microgreen seedlings, unique vegetables with unusual colours, edible flowers, fancy garnishes, flavourful heirloom tomatoes, and colourful high Brix heritage root vegetables. They are featured at many critically acclaimed Toronto and Ontario restaurants and hotels, have fed every US president since Reagan, Canadian prime ministers and the Rolling Stones! Be ready to explore the grounds and taste a wide variety of produce straight from the fields and/or freshly prepared by the farmers themselves - you won't believe the spectrum of flavour!

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EVERDALE organic farm + learning centre

Everdale is a non-for-profit organic farm and environmental learning centre.  It accessibly demonstrates the enormous promise of sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and alternative building methods.  There are 150 acres of certified organic land including 15 acres of vegetables and 20 acres of grain. Poultry, pigs, sheep and other farm animals are raised.  They feature a sustainable model home that demonstrates straw bale construction; renewable and natural non-toxic materials and finishes; solar and wind power systems; rainwater catchment systems; home automation and energy-efficient appliances; grey water system and composting toilet and perma-culture landscaping.
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MAPLETON'S ORGANIC

Mapleton’s Organic Dairy is a family owned and operated farm. They raise and care for the cows that supply the milk for their delicious ice cream, frozen yogurt, and fresh yogurt. Besides a dairy herd, they also raise young dairy animals, a flock of laying hens to supply eggs for the ice cream, and pigs for organic pork.

In the summer there are grain-fed, free-range chickens and turkeys. All the feed for the animals is grown on the farm and the manure they provide is used (after composting) to fertilize the fields. In addition to growing all the feed for the animals, some crops for human consumption are also grown such as spelt, soybeans, corn, potatoes, and pumpkins.  A tour of Mapleton's fortunately includes time with Reroot: an organic CSA.

Caitlin Hall  started reroot organic CSA in 2007.  Reroot is a small community-shared agriculture project dedicated to growing delicious, healthy and safe food in ways that protect the ecological viability of the land. More than 50 types of vegetables and herbs are started in a greenhouse, and grown on land located at Mapleton’s Organic Dairy, certified organic since 1990. In 2008, reroot grew food for 60 shareholders in its three-acre vegetable garden, providing a weekly harvest from mid-June until late October.

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WHEELBARROW FARM