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    Where to Buy

    Weekly produce baskets – OR – Farm Stand – only order when you need veggies.
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    At Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market.
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    Bicycle Delivery

    Our urban farm is Bicycle powered! We move all produce to market, and tools and equipment, by bike.

    We deliver veggies to your location by bike.

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    What We Offer

    Fresh produce year-round.  Ferments and hot food using our produce grown downtown Kingston. Fully customizable weekly vegetable basket.
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2020 Vision

News, Stories

There’s softly blowing snow at the window as I write. Yet, Winter share season is almost over. The light is coming back! Longer days mean plants will soon spring into life. We want to keep sharing the fruit which grows on the urban farm plants with you. And, I want to share two stories from the field which excite us.

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A CSA member let me know last year that they’d discovered that vegetables in recipes – especially curries, stews, soups and so on – can be readily substituted. That’s right! Though a recipe calls for one item, you can put another in and maintain the same flavour and texture profile. Such revelation brings a whole new world of local eating. Substitution means we can depend on the harvest from nearby farms, and still eat the same dishes even though yields vary by season.

TWO
Working in the field over many weeks, a helper became aware of two significant things: they didn’t melt in rain, and being dirty did them good. Not everyone is accustomed to working outdoors. For most farmers, outdoor work happens in any weather. For those who work with us, a sudden rainfall begs the question, “Even today?” Yes, we work in all weather, and there is clothing and strategy to help you stay comfortable, adjust your comfort expectations, and get to your next thing dry and ready. The second awareness was that contact with the soil increased well being. True. Evidence demonstrates improvements in mood and overall well-being from contact with the earth below our feet.

In 2020 we want to see and hear more of these stories. We envision more people with mental, physical, dietary and social challenges joining us to bust barriers down by involvement in agriculture. We imagine all the land can offer us. We stand grateful. We imagine the relationships which will grow, with crops and people. And we look forward to the creative energy which will emerge from it all.

We invite you to discover our urban farm. Give us a call, come out and visit. Buy a veggie share and eat along with us. Improve your quality of life, the earth under your feet, and the quality of our community. Get involved with Main Street Urban Farm.

https://www.harvie.farm/profile/the-main-street-market

Farm share Friday!

CSA, Fresh Produce, Wintershare

February may seem a dull month, deep in the cold cold Winter. But, other than being my birthday month, there is something else special about it. It has #CSADAY right at the end of it. A reminder of the light growing, the warmth coming, and the resulting harvest sharing. A CSA is Community Shared Agriculture, a setup where eaters purchase shares in the farm in advance, and reap their rewards when the harvest comes. Our farm shares run year-round, and with only 2 Winter shares left, we’re planning for May-October plantings and harvest. Why sign up today? Your early entry to CSA membership gets the paperwork out of the way for us now. So, once it truly warms up, we can focus our efforts on fieldwork. Help us out by grabbing your Membership on February 28th, then look forward to the veggies to come!

https://www.harvie.farm/profile/the-main-street-market

Harvie sign up – too easy!

CSA, Fresh Produce, Wintershare

Join us this season and eat from Kingston’s urban farm. The freshest food with the lowest food miles. The most flexible CSA setup. Recipe tips, vacation scheduling and basket customization save you time and keep you eating the best food!

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Farmers' Market, Human Powered

Weekly transit to market is a bicycle only affair for Main Street Market Urban Farm this year. Each pedal stroke makes Tim warmer as he hauls 2 trailers of product in “coolers” to keep produce from freezing at -13 to -31 on Sunday mornings.

Yet, as the Whig reports, customers are also warming up to getting weekly doses of farm fresh goodness at Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market. Both literally and figuratively.  And, they’re doing so at our current Winter location of 484 Albert St, inside Princess St United church’s rear hall.

From 10am – 2pm we’re set up with fresh produce, sprouts&shoots, ferments, Kombucha, cookies, baked goods, and ready-to-eat okonomiyaki (Japanese savoury pancakes). And it’s a lively place to be. With Kate Weekes, Fiddle Earth and other local musos playing tunes, the bustle and chatter of marketgoers, and the hustle to keep our big array in a tiny display stocked, it’s a hopping destination.

Haven’t come out yet this year? Or ever? Come visit and take home a taste of what you’ve been missing.  Warm up to conversation and farm fresh food. As we always say, “Come for coffee, stay for lunch, and take home dinner!”

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2017 CSA signup Blitz

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This week of February has become a North America wide gear up to #CSAday veggie basket sales. We’ve got 99% of our Spring preparation done already

  • Field work in Fall 
  • Desk work in December 
  • January seed and equipment ordering 
  • February finding staff and scheduling 

Now we need EATERS. Yes! 

The best part of farming, arguably (besides working outdoors, rejoicing in weather, excellent exercise, and the thrill of risk and adventure), is EATing. 

That’s where you join us. (We hope.) By EATing along with us you join the effort to make our urban farm a go. Your membership in our Community Shared Agriculture weekly produce basket program gets you into a unique relationship with your farmer

AND

the urban land we farm. 

Connecting with your food by pledging to pay for it up front guarantees you a share in the Freshest Food from our harvest, uniquely delivered to you by BICYCLE. 

Your membership involves you in 

  • Caring for several swathes of soil in the city of Kingston (LOCAL LANDSCAPE)
  • Educating new farmers (LOCAL KNOWLEDGE)
  • Providing employment in Kingston (LOCAL ECONOMY)
  • Increasing Kingston food sovereignty by reducing dependence on imports
  • Reducing food miles, emissions, lost freshness & nutrition, urban truck traffic noise and congestion (LOCAL LIVABILITY)
  • Saving your money (because produce in our baskets costs less than our items do at shops or market)
  • Saving your time (traipsing through the produce aisles looking for organics)

Join us in the best of farming -EAT with us!

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