Tag: farming
Millbrook Farmers’ Market Welcomes Circle Organic
Circle Organic is a family farm established in 2007 by Julie Fleming and Andrew Flaman. It produces a wide range certified organic produce, fruit, herbs and flowers on an 85 acre farm just south…
Irish Stewardship Concept Adopted by Millbrook Farm
In 2021, Burrenbeo Trust of Ireland launched The Hare’s Corner Project – an initiative to help farmers and landowners make more space for nature. he term comes from an old farming expression describing an…
Woodleigh Farms Uses Traditional and Leading Edge Techniques to Find Sustainability
Woodleigh Farms is a sixth generation family farm operation with 500 acres on and around the homestead on Sharpe Line producing crops, maple syrup, flowers, fruit and vegetables. While the business may have historic…
Peterborough Business Hall of Fame Recognizes Local Entrepreneurs
The Winslow and Gerolamy families will be recognized next month in the Peterborough Business Hall of Fame, along with Bob and Jill Staples of Staples Maple Syrup of Cavan. All of these local families…
Grow Your Own Produce at the Community Garden
Finally spring weather is here and we can start work in the Millbrook community garden. The garden is located next to the Old Millbrook School (where the library is) with a beautiful center flower…
Take It Easy on the Road
On Tuesday afternoon the sun was shining, and many kids had taken to the streets- on bikes, rollerblades and scoot- ers. Shrieks of laughter from a nearby playground filled the air as children came…
Life @ 35 – April 2024
This month I spoke with a busy mother of two pre-school children. She and her family are relatively new to the community, having arrived here only two years ago from a small south-western Ontario…
Plan Your Local Maple Syrup Tour April 6th and 7th
Visitors are invited to take a tour at our local sugar bushes in celebration of maple syrup production to see how that clear, thin sap is transformed into that thick, rich, sweet confection. Producers…
Do you know where your beef comes from?
In Peterborough, the Cleary name might be associated with home building but before the family began that business, they were among the first famers in the Keene area. Two years ago, Chris Cleary left…