Lanark Local Flavour - goat

Parks Family Farm (Sparks Bliss Boers)

Parks Family Farm — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:24:54 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Sandy Parks

Phone number:

613 268 2526

Email address:

[email protected]

Location:

4724 Bolingbroke Road, Maberly,

Closest community:

Maberly

We are a diverse small family farm offering a variety of products to our loyal customers. In the summer we produce a wide variety of non certified garden vegetables with a higher concentration on garlic, both braided and loose, and sweet corn.
We truly enjoy our honeybees both for their incredible pollination capability and the exquisite honey they give us. We extract our honey twice per season giving us the opportunity to sell both spring and fall unpasteurized honey .
We have free range chickens giving us a rainbow of colours. Our customers enjoy seeing white, brown, pink, green and blue eggs in their carton and the fresh free range flavour of the eggs is incomparable!
In the spring we tap a limited number of Maple trees and have a quantity of maple syrup available as supplies last.
My pride and joy are our Boer Goats. Our farm raises both purebred and percentage Boers. The Boer is a hardy meat breed and are easy keepers. Ours only require a lean to for winter conditions and are healthy and friendly. We sell them as purebreds, registered if requested or commercial for meat or hobby. Spring kids arrive in early April and it is optimal to reserve one early . We currently are adding red and spotted genetics to our Boers for eye appeal.
Our firewood is usually preordered and is well seasoned mixed hardwood. Occasionally we have some available.
Everything we produce is the hard work of our own family. We are very happy with what we produce which makes the hard work involved so very worth it!

Products:

Purebred and percentage Boer goats
Garlic : Braided for decoration, loose or seed garlic. Multiple varieties
Sweet corn
Pumpkins
Seasonal vegetables ie tomatoes, beans, cucumbers etc
Honey: unpasteurized extracted for spring and fall honey
Free range eggs
Maple Syrup
Firewood

Amaranth Farm

Amaranth Farm — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:38:51 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Margaret and Tony French

Phone number:

613-268-2102

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.amaranthfarm.ca

Location:

2116 Old Brooke Road

Closest community:

Maberly

Products:

Generally available: Young stock of Saanen dairy goats available in September (best to inquire several months in advance) and sometimes a yearling ready for breeding. Amaranth Farm is careful that the goats go to good homes and recommend that at least two goats be kept together for company. Farm gate eggs also available.

Ravensfield Farm

Ravensfield — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:20:16 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Titia Posthuma

Phone number:

613-268-2248

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://ravensfield.ca/

Location:

Old Brooke Road in the Brooke Valley

Closest community:

Maberly/Brooke

The story of Ravensfield begins with the European settlement of this area in the 1840s and 50s. The rocky Canadian Shield soil was forest-covered: white pine, oak, maple. For the immigrants trying to establish a farm, the mighty trees were a serious problem: they needed cleared land, and the easiest way they knew to deal with the forest was to set fire to it.
This style of agriculture has been practiced since antiquity. From a present day perspective, the ecological cost to the ecosystem is far too great to justify it. But settlers were desperate for food and unable to adapt quickly from the version of agriculture they had known in Europe. So the forest fires in Lanark County burned, some literally for years.
A forgiveness is needed here. As humans we are able to act quickly and have immense impact on ecosystems. Our brains, much as we think so highly of them, seem less capable of foreseeing the consequences of our actions, and our hearts are not always large enough to care about the bigger picture, or the future, or other humans, present and future, or other species.
The settlers soon learned that the soil under the oaks was thin. Rock close to the surface, crops that grew well only for a few years and thereafter dwindled as the soil nutrients were used up. Yet the human imperative continued: a farm of 100 acres was expected to have 12 cows (plus offspring) if the farmer was to be respected in society.

Products:

Organic vegetables, wide range:
Kingston Market
Saturdays from May 1 to Nov 1
Tues. and Thurs. from Aug. 1 to Thanksgiving

CSA Weekly Vegetable Boxes:
20 weeks of veggies from late June to end Oct.
Large shares-$500 per season, small shares $320.
Perth: Wednesday afternoons, delivered anywhere in Perth or on my route in to Perth
Kingston: Pickup at Kingston Market Sat. morn. before noon
We also sell some produce through Foodsmiths in Perth, Ont.

Organic Tamworth Pork

Pork freezer orders:
1/2: custom cut to your specifications; appr. 100 lbs.
Variety packs: 20 lbs. and 50 lbs.

Sausage--farmer's and Hot Italian
Check availability for lard, rendered and not rendered

Purebred Tamworth weaner pigs.

Alpenblick Farm

Alpenblick Farm — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:05:51 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Petra Stevenson and Robert Oechsli

Phone number:

613-253-2640

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://www.alpenblickfarm.ca

Location:

8138 Golf Club Way, Ashton, ON

Closest community:

Carleton Place

Only 30 minutes from Ottawa and 15 minutes from Carleton Place, we raise organic beef (Simmental), goat and lamb in a very peaceful setting on close to 200 acres of pasture, off the grid. During the milder seasons, our animals live of our land. This farm has been organic since 1972.
We have a very unique farm operation where all the animals are roaming freely and are very tame, including Freddy, the pot bellied pig. We are creating an educational environment for schools and offer summer camps to teach young and old about a healthy life style and organic food sources.
A respect for animals and producing food naturally is what drives our farm. We practice organic farming because it is a philosophy and it's the way Robert was raised on his family's farm in Switzerland. Our farm is open to the public for visits and long walks.
You can purchase our products at the farm gate or the Carleton Place and Stittsville Farmers’ Market. Our meat and cheese are very popular. We are long time members of the Canadian Organic Growers. Please call for more info about our products and cow shares.

Greenwood Organics

Greenwood Organics — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:49:39 +0000

Are you:

a local farm

Contact person:

Jeff and Joanne Greenberg

Phone number:

613-264-2036

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://greenwoodorganics.ca

Location:

894 Brooke Valley Road

Closest community:

Perth

Greenwood Organics is situated on 56 acres of rolling hills in Tay Valley Township.

Goats: We raise a herd of Saanen dairy goats and will, from time to time, have does, milking does, kids and goat meat for sale. This year's kids will be born in April. If you are interested in a milking doe, buckling or other goat, please contact us.

Eggs: Our chickens are allowed to roam freely during the day, returning to the safety of the indoors at night. The grass and insects they find result in nutritious, delicious eggs. Feed is strictly certified organic, ensuring that no GMOs or pesticides are included in their diet. Multicoloured, beautiful and nutritious eggs are available at the farm gate for $6 a dozen. Please call ahead for availability.

Vegetables:

Each week, beginning in May, we harvest vegetables for the Perth Farmers' Market and have these available for sale at our farm gate store on Friday afternoons. Stop by or phone ahead to check on what might be available each week.

Organic certification: We are certified organic by Pro-Cert Organic Systems under their Local Organic Program.

Greenwood Organics is a member of Seeds of Diversity Canada, Canadian Organic Growers, Ecological Farmers of Ontario and the National Farmers' Union- Ontario.

Products:

Certified Organic vegetables (seasonally)

Goats- Saanen dairy goats

Goat meat (seasonally)

Eggs

Tiraislin Fold

Tiraislin Farm — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:37:18 +0000

Contact person:

Rosemary Kralik

Phone number:

613 268-9999

Email address:

[email protected]

Website address:

http://aBrushWithImmortality.com

Location:

113 Clarendon Rd. at the Kingston Line

Closest community:

Between Elphin & Maberly

Tiraislin Fold is a 722-acre farm in Lanark Highlands, 100km west of Ottawa, where Rosemary Kralik raises Tibetan Yak, Highland Cattle, Sheep, Goats & occasional Tamworth pork. Rosemary is an exponent of Freedom Food; all the animals are pasture raised, with free access to browse and forage.
The most important promise she makes to them is that they will have a happy, healthy life, and when their time comes, she accompanies each in comfort, calm, and quiet. Kralik is convinced that the meat from happy, strong animals makes a huge difference to one’s health. People often visit to experience the marvel of the animals’ presence and interactions.

Products:

Yak, Highland beef, lamb, goat, available in roasts, stew, chops, minced, sausages, salami, soup bones, tallow, wool yarn, pelts, hides, fleeces, paintings, sculpture & Portraits on commission .