Nature, Nurtured
Welcome to Second Season Farm. We’re a perennial-based farm pursuing what’s possible on small, local farms that embrace scale-appropriate technology and the power of nature.
In Summer and Fall, we produce a range annual vegetables that are organically grown using low-till methods. We’d love for you to get a taste of what we have to offer and you can find us this year at the Bowmanville Reko Network, the Clarington Farmers Market, or through our online store. Read more…
Latest News
Pumpkins!
If you donated your pumpkin to be displayed at the Pumpkin Walk at the Port of Newcastle, here’s how they look now.
We mixed the clean pumpkins (nitrogen) together with straw (carbon) into an existing compost pile (inoculation), the rough idea being to layer the ingredients together, in as tall of a pile possible, starting with a base of straw or wood chips.
We’ve been busy…
Here’s a little story abut our fall, and the progress we’ve made to process more food for you all.
Flow through the farm for humans and machines is just as important as the flow of all the other biology in our environment. With that in mind, and some help from Jake Lauzon…
Hedgerows are helpful – reason #245
If they aren’t mature enough to break the wind, at least they catch the windblown tarps. I thought I had weighed this one down well. I guess not when you have 45+ knot winds.
We use the tarps to cover any parts of the field that do not have a cover crop on them over the winter.