CRAFT Intern and Eat Local Sudbury Member Farm Tours Schedule

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!

Local Food BBQ at Market Square

Even if you can't make the farm tour, plan to come to the local food BBQ at the end of the day, 6:00pm on Friday, August 6.  It's hosted by Eat Local Sudbury and FarmON and will feature all local ingredients cooked up by Holly from Rollin' Doggies, a local band, and some info tables for folks interested in farming.
Drink, plate and desert, all for $12 - come and enjoy!

Upcoming farm tour

SDCIA Crop Tour August 6, 2010

Please join us for this year’s Sudbury District Soil and Crop Improvement Association Crop Tour taking place in the Valley area, north of the City of Greater Sudbury. The tour will be held August 6th, 2010 (rain or shine!); please RSVP to Mack Emiry (1-705-865-2249 or mackbethca@sympatico.ca). Those staying overnight at the Days Inn will be picked up there the morning of the 6th otherwise the main meeting area, where free parking is available, is located at Sudbury Downs in the gravel car park on the left upon entry. Private vehicle are not permitted at the Xstrata site so we ask late arrivals to meet the group at Beaulieu Farms at 1:00pm. An itinerary is provided below:

9:15 am: Bus arrives at Days Inn (117 Elm Street, Sudbury) for pick up
9:30 am: Bus departs Days Inn for the Sudbury Downs
9.45 am: Bus arrives at Sudbury Downs (400 Bonin Road, Chelmsford)
10:00 am: Bus departs Sudbury Downs for Xstrata in Onaping
10:45 – 11:45 am: Visit to the Xstrata Onaping Tailings Management site where crops with potential as energy sources are being grown in organic residual covers to mine tailings; field boots are required for this site visit (closed toe)
1:00 – 2:30 pm: Visit Beaulieu Farms (3624 Regional Road 15, Blezard Valley) for lunch (courtesy of SDSCIA) at a produce and berry farm; lunch will mainly consist of food grown at Beaulieu Farms!
2:45 – 3:45 pm: Visit Valley Growers (2960 Martin Rd, Blezard Valley) for a tour of a potato field and processing and packing operation
4:00 – 5:00 pm: Visit Green Zone Farms (333 Bonin Road, Chelmsford) to visit the comparative agricultural site to the Xstrata Waste Tailings site and a soil amendment Soil and Crop Association experiment plot series
5:00 – 5:45 pm: Bus departs Green Zone Farms with a stop at the Sudbury Downs before returning to Market Square downtown Sudbury
6:00 pm on!: Barbeque hosted by Eat Local Food Sudbury and FarmON Alliance at Market Square downtown Sudbury; Food will be acquired from area growers! Music and info tables too.

While in the Sudbury area, please also visit other local attractions such as Science North and the Imax theater; Dynamic Earth and the Big Nickel; the OLG Slots and Sudbury Downs (live harness racing every Saturday night!); and the St. Germain outdoor farm museum. The weekend of August 6-8th is also the Manitoulin Star Party, an incredible astronomy experience! Please visit the following website for more information: http://www.gordonspark.com/man_StarParty.pdf. An old-time music weekend is also being held August 7th and 8th please see the flyer in the bus!

Farmer Training Survey

Please take the time to fill out this simple (10min. tops!) survey that FarmON has developed to find out the educational and training needs of new (1-5 years) farmers, or newly re-purposed farmers. Our region is sorely under-represented in this, so we'd love to hear from you.

Le sondage pour les besoins educatives des fermiers est aussi disponible en Francais.

English: www.tinyurl.com/farmertrainingsurvey

French: www.tinyurl.com/farmertrainingsurveyfr