As of June 19, we have asparagus, carrots, beets, lettuce (several varieties and a mix), arugula, green onions and kale. Come early for the best selection – and join Second Season Farm at Bowmanville Farmers Market on Fridays, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Orono Farmers’ Market, Fridays 1 to 6 p.m., or Clarington Farmers’ Market on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Join us at the new Orono Farmers’ Market, every Friday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the north end of the Orono Fairgrounds at the end of Centreview Street in Orono.
Come visit Second Season Farm as the Clarington Farmer’s Market opens for the season on Sunday, May 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a new location at the Diane Hamre Recreation Complex, 1780 Rudell Rd.
Second Season Farm will have a booth at the new Bowmanville Farmer’s Market every Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Garnet Rickard Recreation Complex parking lot. Come visit us there and stock up on our fresh, local produce.
Unless you’re a farmer, of course, in which case you’re probably still busier than a one-armed paperhanger! Still lots of fall produce that needs attention, things that need to be put to bed for the winter, and planning for next year to do.
We’re harvesting lots of carrots, beets, squash and garlic, keeping our Sunday…
Join Second Season Farm and all the local producers at the Clarington Farmers’ Market every Sunday until the end of October, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. We’ll have a selection of fresh-picked seasonal produce every week, including leafy greens, root vegetables, garlic and much more…
…and we’ve been really busy! Check out our photo album to see all the things we’ve been up to this spring as we move into the 2022 growing season.
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.
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…
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.