Educational farm tour schedule
Monday, August 16, 2010:
10:00 am - Meet at Eat Local Sudbury
10:30 – 12:30 – Tour Heart & Soil Gardens, Chelmsford
Host: Amy Hallman
This is a small ‘peri-urban’ operation where salad crops and sprouts are grown
for the Eat Local Sudbury store and market stall. Topics covered in this workshop will include succession salad cropping and seed sprouting.
1:30 – 3:30 – Tour Farm Yard Gardens, Sudbury
Hosts: Dillon Davekis (Farmer and landowner)
Lark Fairgraive (FYGs Program Coordinator)
This is the second year of the program, sponsored by
The Foodshed Project, that has 13 interns this year aged 18-30. Interns learn to grow their own vegetables on a shared plot of land and take home the edible dividends. Some of the participants will be on hand to show off their hard work and explain the methods that were used in the garden.
Monday, August 23, 2010:
10:00 am – Meet at Eat Local Sudbury
10:30 – 11:30 – Stop and shop at Creative Meats, Warren
Host: Gilles Simon (Co-owner)
Here we’ll have an optional tour and hear a little about the history of this co-operative abattoir that serves much of the Northeast region.
12:00 – 4:00 - Tour Dalew Farms, Lavigne
Hosts: Chantal and Dave Lewington
Dalew Farms is a very diverse operation that includes five acres of vegetables,
a large CSA box program, and livestock including beef, pork, laying hens, and lamb. lamb Eat Local Sudbury carries their pork products and vegetables. A tour of the farm will will be followed by a workshop on the topics of market garden equipment and tools, and
rotational grazing of livestock.
Monday, August 30, 2010:
9:00 am – Meet at Eat Local Sudbury
11:00 – 3:00 – Tour LoonSong Garden, Little Current, Manitoulin Island
Hosts: Heather Thoma and Paul Salanki
LoonSong produces a large variety of vegetables and grains that they mill weekly into flours and rolled/flaked grains. They have a well-established CSA program and supply several farmer’s markets on Manitoulin, and Eat Local Sudbury. After a tour of the farm, there will be a workshop on soil fertility, composting and cover-cropping.
RSVP: farmon@eatlocalsudbury.com by August 9, 2010
Remember to pack your lunch and lots of water!
