After four years operating their local organic farm, Merridy Senior and Eben Hancock are finding new ways to grow their business. Theirs is a traditional mixed farm operation, where they grow more than 30 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers, produce maple syrup, honey, eggs, freezer beef, chicken and will… Continue reading
The spring comes slowly up this way, Slowly, slowly! A little nearer every day. – Katherine Tynan Hinkson – Maybe a poem referring to spring is a bit optimistic considering that all outside is a blanket of ice and snow. A friend said to me recently that winter… Continue reading
Join the Millbrook Garden Club on Wednesday, December 7th at the St. Thomas Church Hall, 16 Centre Street at 7:30 p.m. Elyn Saar-Green grew up in Toronto and studied at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. She has co-owned Greenhouse on the River just south of Lakefield with her husband Peter… Continue reading
The Invasive Species Act will come into effect on November 3rd, but the regulations associated with this legislation which have not yet been made public, will not take effect until a later date. Kellie Sherman, Coordinator, Ontario Invasive Plant Council joined the October 17th Council meeting to outline the growing… Continue reading
The Ganaraska savannah is still dry when we headed toward mid-summer. A little bit of rain fell in late July but not enough to put an end to my constant watering. I have been filling and refilling large plastic olive barrels with water pumped from the creek to water the… Continue reading
Puddleduck Farm owners Merridy Senior, Eban Hancock and son Sawyer were on hand on Sunday September 18th as part of a Farms at Work farm tour at the farm on Glamorgan Rd outside Millbrook. The couple, who have been operating the farm since 2012, produce eggs and poultry, some beef,… Continue reading
The next Millbrook & Area Garden Club is having a very special guest. He is the owner of Whistling Gardens, a Botanical garden in Wilsonville near Brantford. Join the Millbrook & Area Garden Club at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 5th. We are having a very special guest speak to… Continue reading
Gordon Nomekuz has been farming in this area for over 40 years but this season has presented him with a unique challenge. And it isn’t the drought. “Darnedest thing I ever saw,” Gord says, as we walk through 67 acres of beans, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables. “I planted them… Continue reading
