Schedule for Harvest Celebration

Our Harvest Celebration is three days away.

Please join us this Saturday to enjoy the beautiful farm property, a foraging walk, wagon rides, shopping in the farm store, circle dancing, and our Art Hive. 

The day's schedule:

10:30 am Foraging walk with Rob McQueen (new this year)

Learn about and eat edible plants and weeds on a walk through the farm. 

11:00 am - 3 pm Art Hive (new this year)

Join a community space where everyone is welcomed as an artist and encouraged to create together with free, donated art materials.

11:00 am - Circle Dance (new this year)

Circle dances can be meditative, vigorous, peaceful, playful, healing, and entertaining. These dances are for people of all ages and abilities. 

Its origins can be traced to the beginning of humankind. Circle dances reflect the need for bonding among members of a community and are associated with milestones like birth, marriage, planting, the arrival of spring, harvest, and death.

12:00 - 3 pm Potluck Lunch

Please bring a salad or dessert to share, and your own dishes.

Ralph will barbecue Sunnivue's free-range chicken.

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The Farm Store will be open from 10 am to 5 pm

Wagon rides will be ongoing throughout the day.

The day's experience is free, but donations to the ROSE Land Trust, a non-profit organization, will be gratefully received.

We hope to see you there. If you have any questions, please call Alex at 226 378 9920.

Sunnivue's Farm Store, August 18

FROM THE GARDEN THIS WEEK

Fresh organic produce is available this Saturday, August 18 from 10 am to 4 pm

  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
  • Cabbage
  • Okra
  • Beans
  • Cucumbers
  • Celery
  • Zucchini
  • Carrots
  • Radishes
  • Artichokes
  • Swiss Chard
  • Leaf Lettuce
  • Kale
  • Beets
  • Eggplant
  • Leeks

DELIVERIES

If you're not able to make it to the farm store this week, please contact Chris at 226 234 8247 for delivery options.

Sunnivue's Farm Store, July 7

At the Farm Store this Saturday, open between 10 am and 4 pm, you'll find fresh beets, summer squash, green beans, kale, radishes, onions, and lettuce.

We also have maple syrup, made on the farm this spring, and bread from the Red Cat Bakery (Dutch, Italian, Rye, Spelt, and Caraway), as well as sweet rolls and pretzels.

Free-range organic chicken from the farm is also available, and you can order duck or turkey by calling 226 378 9920.

Enjoy the farm, sit on the porch outside the store with a cup of tea, and ask about our trails for walking.

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Sunnivue's Beautiful Market Garden

After a slow and late spring, Sunnivue's market garden, under the direction this year of Alex and Ellinor, is growing apace with new produce ready to harvest each week.

The produce can be found at Sunnivue's Farm Store, open on Saturdays, from 10-4, and in the Hutton House booth at the Masonville Market (in the parking lot at Masonville Mall) on Fridays, from 8-1.

Amongst the selection this week, look out for the huge radishes, delicious to the core despite being out-sized. Alex explains that bio-dynamic principles have a lot to do with the wonderful quality of all of these vegetables.

Sunnivue Farm Store: beauty and idealism on Opening Day

Opening Day on June 16 at the Sunnivue Farm Store offered an intense vision of beauty and idealism created by students from the W. D. Sutton School. The ten teenagers who attend the school had created a raft of flags that made their first public appearance that day at Sunnivue, flying from all sides of the porch at the store.

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Teacher Leslie Tabler reports that the wide variety of courses that the students have experienced over the past couple of years has included attention to a number of projects creating change in the world. Out of this study the students formed the group Earthlings Creating Change, and the art installation seen at Sunnivue, which is called “Voices Soaring,” was one result (see photos below).

Another way that the students are taking action, and sharing across the globe their work and their message, is through their Earthlings Creating Change Instagram Account, “rethinkingtheworld.”

Visiting Sunnivue Farm has also been an important activity for the Sutton students over the past year. Leslie and her co-teacher Sarah Cullen tell us that they “value the experiential learning opportunities Sunnivue has provided, and are able to design cross curricular projects for students that they make curricular connections with and truly enjoy.”

For each visit Chris, with the help of Alex and Ellinor, has provided interesting and meaningful activities for the class, and the class members have in turn contributed through their work to the farm. They have worked on maple syrup production, trail grooming, picking wild grapes and making jelly, and planting onions. In a letter to Sunnivue, the students write, “Whenever we go to Sunnivue Farm, we are greeted by friendly faces and feel at home in the atmosphere that they create. . . .The knowledge that we learned at Sunnivue will be useful for day to day life skills. Our experience was positive, beautiful and overall amazing!”

The W. D. Sutton students’ visits will continue throughout the next school year.

With best wishes to all, and with gratitude to the Sutton school students and teachers,

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Sunnivue + Hutton House = Masonville Mall every Friday

As part of our partnership with Hutton House, Sunnivue maple syrup and produce from the market garden are being sold at Masonville Market.

The market takes place in the parking lot at Masonville Mall every Friday during the summer, 8:00-1:00. The Hutton House booth sells pottery made at Hutton House and other gifts and treats as well as the Sunnivue produce and syrup.

Many thanks to Chris for the photo below.

Don’t forget that the SUNNIVUE FARM STORE opens for the 2018 season on JUNE 16, 10:00-4:00. Questions? Phone Chris at 226-234-8247.

The first installment of Sunnivue organic produce (onions ) and maple syrup for sale at The Hutton House Booth at Masonvile market. Rachel is minding the shop. 

The first installment of Sunnivue organic produce (onions ) and maple syrup for sale at The Hutton House Booth at Masonvile market. Rachel is minding the shop. 

Order for Delivery from The Sunnivue Farm Store

The Sunnivue Farm Store has closed for the season, but you are still welcome to order for delivery - meats, eggs, and breads. If you order by Thursday of any week, your order will be delivered on the following Sunday.

And don’t forget about the big Christmas turkeys raised organically and with loving care by Alex and Ellinor. They are available now.

You are welcome at any time to contact Chris at 226-234-8247 or chrishenrywhite@gmail.com.

27093 New Ontario Road, 
Ailsa Craig ON, N0M 1A0
226-377-6932