Maple Ridge Farm Guelph

🥕 🥦 For the past 43 years, Mapleridge Farm has provided fresh, local, organic produce for Guelph and Wellington County at the Guelph Farmers Market.

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Visit us at @GuelphFarmerMKT this Saturday!
👩‍🌾 We’ll be at market Saturday Oct 1 - Oct 8. Thank you all for being part of Maple Ridge Farm this summer of 2022. See you in June.
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #GuelphFarmersMarket #FarmerLife

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I’m thinking about picking #snowpeas. They are my favourite crop to pick. When I first started picking snow peas, I was slow. Snow peas are invisible. The green of the pea pod matched exactly the green of the foliage.
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #FarmerLife

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🥗 The moment I discovered that #Spinach is best eaten uncooked in a salad with roasted walnuts and strawberries or with sliced oranges and sweet onions, or mixed with baby lettuce or Romaine, it moved from last on my veggie list to first place
#GuelphFarm #Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm

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Today marks a momentous event in my life. For the first time in over 40 years at the farmer’s market, I harvested a #watermelon. This was the first watermelon I have ever got to grow and it is very sweet and actually tastes like watermelon.

#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OntarioFarm

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I once brought burdock down to sell. Howard said it couldn’t be done. He bet me, it couldn’t be done. I won the bet. It wasn’t easy, burdock being the stuff that sticks like velcro to pet fur, sweaters and your hair.

#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #Thanksgiving

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👩‍🌾We don’t like to brag and name drop at Maple Ridge Farm, but our beans were the talk of the town a few weeks back. The town was New York City where our daughter Paddy lives. Paddy had recently returned from a visit to the farm
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #GuelphFarmersMarket #Beans

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Carnage on the Farm
We used to have a whole village of groundhogs. They popped up everywhere, particularly in fields featuring tasty crops.Then Paddy asked for a puppy.
Picture: Idyllic life: After illicit hunts, our animals come clean

#Guelph #OrganicVegetables #FarmLife

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Cook and Save - or Save and Cook.

1. Parmesan Cheese. Buy a big block of Parmesan Cheese and simmer the rind in soups and tomato sauces. I freeze the rinds and keep them in the freezer.

#FarmFresh #Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #CookAndSave
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This was one of my favourite days this summer. Gail and Russell Saunders and their two girls came to visit the farm.
🌞Question: Do you have a favourite moment this summer that seems like a gift from a long lost friend?
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #SummerMemories

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Insecurity of Living Off the Land
🇨🇦 The reality of farming in Canada is that it is not a miracle. The reality of farming is that few family run farms can survive without a day job to support the family and pay for the farm
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Vegetables available tomorrow @GuelphFarmerMKT
Peas: Snow and Shelling
🥬 Lettuce
beans
🥒 Cucumbers
Swiss Chard
🌽 Sweet Corn
Zucchini
Pepper Squash
Tiny Tomatoes
🍅 Tomatoes
🫑 Red, Green Peppers
🍆 Eggplant

#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #GuelphFarmersMarket

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It was a big week putting things down. We froze beans, made raw tomato pickle and marinara sauce.

🐶 Here’s Maulid. She was exhausted

🫙 Question: Do you put food by for the winter? Do you make pickles, relish or jam?

#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #Canning

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📕 My favourite recipe book for what to do with the bounty of the Ontario Harvest is “The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook” by America’s Test Kitchen.

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The drought is finally over. It’s September and what we have at Maple Ridge Farm is unmown grass.
Pictures: Our daughter Paddy, as a toddler examining the mower, feeding lawn mower cow, and today’s blue lawn mower
#FarmFresh #Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables #LawnMowing

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The Labour Day Weekend Market is always busy. Everyone is back from holidays and are stocking up for the weekend celebrations.
Photo credit @GuelphFarmerMKT

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On offer this week at @GuelphFarmerMKT

🌿 basil
beans: green, yellow, purple
🌽 Corn
Dried grasses
🍆 Eggplant
🥬 Lettuce: Romaine,
🫑 Peppers: Green, Red, Yellow, lipstick
Swiss Chard
🍅 Tomatoes
#FarmFresh #Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #OrganicVegetables

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Even though this #COYOTE has lost his furry tail, he still has a few tricks left in him.While he never fools Howard, he, regularly, startles Jacqueline who will spill a whole of peas when she forgets where she’s at in the patch and comes face to face
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm

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Marinara Sauce

🍅 Cut tomatoes in halves
Place on parchment baking sheet
🧄 Sprinkle with two cloves of garlic cut into halves/salt and pepper
🧅 Add one or two chopped onions
🫒 Drizzle with olive oil
Bake at 450 for 20 - 30 minutes
#Guelph #MapleRidgeFarm #MarinaraSauce

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Crop Failure or Miracle

🥕 This is our #carrot crop for this year. Howard planted 2000 seeds to get this one carrot. Guess who is not going to market, but will be chopped into sweet carrot sticks for lunch.
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