Our popular Local Flavours Holiday Market returns for three days of food, drink, music, holiday cheer, and great gift ideas in early December!
Wonderful holiday finds, local and ecological!
WHEN Sunday, Dec 4, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10-11, from 11am – 2pm all three days!
WHERE 2391 Pepin Ct (in Blackburn Hamlet), at Just Food Community Farm in the Big Red Barn.
Our local artisans have produced a selection of holiday gifts, including crafts, baked goods, ferments, and preserves, as well as fresh food including hot food and drink.
Hosted by farmers of Just Food Community Farm, featuring local ecological products, creative food items, and holiday gifts – honey, bee products, ferments, gourmet condiments, lamb products, baked goods, ready-to-go food, jam and jelly, eco-stuffer items, crafts, hot apple cider, raffle draw and more!
Bring your mugs to fill with warm local apple cider, or fair trade hot chocolate or coffee! HOT FOOD will be available for purchase (e.g. soup, samosa, muffins, etc.). Wrap yourself around a warm doner kebab stuffed with seasoned rice and lamb.
Along with holiday doodads and appurtenances from local craft vendors, our farmers offer fascinating ferments (kimchi!), lamb indulgences, jiggling jams and jellies, honeybee sweets, magical mushrooms, and much, much more!
Great under the tree and shared on the table for your holiday feasts!
Eco Gift Cards
Forêt Capitale Forest, a local non-profit will plan to sell these afforestation gift cards (for the person who has everything, give the gift of increased tree canopy in the Ottawa region) and serve warm apple cider in biodegradable cups (that can be used to plant tree seeds afterward)…
Check out these photos collaged from Summer market days. The farm stand has an amazing diversity:
Leafy greens and diversity salad.
New garlic and onions – some braided!
Yes, tomatoes are out – farmers have them in every colour and size. Heirloom tomatoes. Other nightshades as well – lots of pepper, hot pepper, eggplants, potatoes and even okra.
Gourd family abound – cukes and zukes, and winter squash too!
Japanese squash kabocha at Chi Garden table, simmered or roasted, how about kabocha chai ice cream? This winter squash does not need peeling as the skin is thin and soft.
Bitter melon and luffa: Bitter melon and eggs stirfry is our favourite way to prepare, and this recipe looks good and simple. Luffa or loofah, yes as in the spongy scrubber luffa, is edible and delicious when young, and simple to prepare, as in this and silky luffa recipe with tofu.
Raw honey from Capital Bees! Have 500g and 1 litre jars.
Jam from Nanabush Food Forest – new varieties!
AND – we reuse the glass parts of all jars – honey, jam, ferments, oil, etc. Bring them back to the Chi Garden table where they are gladly accepted.
Capital Bees – certified natually grown raw honey (find them at Chi Garden table)
7 Hues EcoFarm – Ferme aux sept couleurs – Curly Endive (Chicory), Fresh garlic, Pink Celery, Purple Napa Cabbage, Sweet and hot peppers, Beans, Kangua magic melon, Zucchini, Green Onions, Water Spinach, Beets.
Nellai Farms – onions, fresh young celery stalks, bush beans, jalapeño peppers and fragrant genova Basil.
Earth and Heart Organics is on social media! Go ahead and give them a like. They have potatoes, pepper (hot ones too!), and squash ready.
Cadence Ecological Farm has cucamelons (picture below!), cucumber, zucchini, kale, sweet peppers, hot peppers, okra, carrots, beets, and lots of microgreens! The garlic is still drying, but will be available soon!
Nanabushi Food Forests – excellent low-sugar jam from forest-grown fruits and berries (at Chi Garden table).
Chi Garden has specialty veggies and ferments, and mushroom oil. August specialty:
– Heirloom snap beans – Specialty pole beans developed 500 years ago in NE China near Siberia. They are dongbei youdou – snap beans (not stringless French beans) and horticulturally they are common beans – Phaseolus vulgaris var. chinensis Hort. They were developed for their protein-rich (20%!), fleshy, tender, and snappy pods, and need longer cooking – minimum of 10 minutes above 100 Celcius to rid of antinutrients found in all common beans.
– Garlic chive scape (a once-a-year treat) – sweet, tender, wonderful on its own stir-fried, and goes well with any protein.
– Diversity salad with edible flowers. First flush of Japanese squash – kabocha. First harvest of bitter melon!
Starting from July 10th, Just Food Farm Stand 2022 summer outdoors markets will be open weekly on (most) Sundays from 10am – 1pm.
Farm Stand poster 2022 – diverse farmers, diverse products, all ecological, all local.
Fresh and diverse vegetables and herbs. Berries, jams, and jellies. Fermentation (kimchi, hot sauce) and preserves. Maple syrup and maple butter. Raw honey and bee products. Lamb and lamb products. Mushroom products. Seasonal food offerings are made from farm-fresh produce.
Direction: Turn left from Innes bypass onto Innes Road, to Blackburn Hamlet, about 200 meters on the left you will find us set up outside on Innes Road. Across from soccer/baseball fields in Tauvett Park. Google map location.
We open from 10am-1pm on Sundays from July – October 2022*.
due to long weekend schedule, we will not set up on July 31, September 5 and October 10, to allow farmer vendors to take these holidays off.
Just Food Farm Stand 2022 SPRING markets will be open bi-weekly on Sundays from 11am – 1pm. April – May Market dates are: April 24, May 8, May 22 – Sundays from 11am – 1pm.
More dates to be added for June.
July – October 2022 we will have a weekly market every Sunday on Innes Road outside the farm.
April – May 2022 market days.
Summer markets will open in early July!
Products from Flat Earth Farm, The Chi Garden. Limited products from Capital Bees (raw honey), and Nanabush Food Forests (jam, jellies, hot sauce, etc.)
Where 2391 Pepin Ct. Just Food Community Farm. (in Blackburn Hamlet, off Innes road). Outside market when weather is good. Come inside the barn when raining – Big Red Barn. 2nd floor.
When 11am-1pm, SUNDAY, April 24, May 8, May 22 (more June dates will be added)
Products Lamb products. Maple syrup. Ancient corn chips. Fermentation (kimchi…). Jam, jelly, and preserves. Honey.
All local. Directly from ecological farmers with Just Food Community Farm.
COVID rules apply according to public health mandates.
Our popular holiday market has returned this Holiday Season!
Opens two weekends.
When Saturday and Sunday, Dec 4-5, 11-12, from 11am – 2pm.
Where 2391 Pepin Ct (in Blackburn Hamlet), inside Just Food Community Farm’s Big Red Barn.
About Eight farms will use local ecological ingredients to create food and holiday gifts! Herbal tea, fermented products (kimchi!), lamb products, freshly-made baked goods + food items, jam and jelly, ancient grain and corn chips, honey and bee products, mushroom products, gourmet salt, and much more! COVID rules apply. Please wear a mask while inside and follow public health advisories.
Farm Stand OPENS on Sundays, October 3, 17, 24, 31. November 14 and 28th, from 11am to 1pm.
Christmas market coming soon!
Farmers of Just Food Community Farm are happy to be back and to serve you and your family good, healthy, and nutritious local produce and food! Runs every Sunday during October except for the Thanksgiving weekend. We welcomed new startup farmers joining the farm stand in 2021. Follow us on facebook and instagram – @justfoodfarmstand.
Our popular Sunday farm stand is a community spot, to meet farmers, buy direct from organic veggies, natural honey, yummy preserve such as kimchi, jam and jelly and mushroom oil, lamb cuts, sausage, ancient corn chips, and much more.
WHERE@ Just Food Farm Stand is located inside Just Food Community Farm, 2391 Pepin Ct, in Blackburn Hamlet community. Take Innes bypass, turn onto Innes Road, make an immediate turn into Pepin Ct. We will set up at the corner of Inness and Pepin.
Farmers of Just Food Community Farm are happy to be back and to serve you and your family good, healthy, and nutritious local food! Runs every Sunday from July 11 – October, we welcome new startup farmers joining the farm stand in 2021. Follow us on facebook and instagram – @justfoodfarmstand.
Our popular Sunday farm stand is a community spot, to meet farmers, buy direct from organic veggies, natural honey, yummy preserve such as kimchi and mushroom oil, lamb sausage, ancient corn chips, and much more.
WHERE@ Just Food Farm Stand is located inside Just Food Community Farm, 2391 Pepin Ct, in Blackburn Hamlet community. Take Innes bypass, turn onto Innes Road, make an immediate turn into Pepin Ct. We will set up at the corner of Inness and Pepin.
WHEN
OPENS Every Sunday from July 11 to October. 10am – 2pm.
COVID rules apply
We follow public health rules and advisories.
Vendors will wear masks.
Please use sanitizer at the door before entering.
Please keep appropriate distance.
Vendors and Products
Capital Bees – Honey from Capital Bees can be ordered from Chi Garden store. For other bee products visit their online store.
Our 2021 Spring-Summer Just Food Farm Stand is open!
We, Cadence Ecological Farm, Chi Garden, Capital Bees and Flat Earth Farm are happy to be back and to serve you and your family good, healthy, and nutritious local food! Coming July there will be more farmers joining the farm stand. Follow us on facebook and instagram – @justfoodfarmstand.
Feburary Market – 11am – 1pm, Sunday Feb 14th, 2021
March Market – 11am – 1pm, Sunday, March 14, 2021
April Market – 11am – 1pm, Sunday, April 11, 2021
May Market – 11am – 1pm, Sunday, May 9, 2021. Seedlings for sale from Greens Creek Organic Nursery. Order HERE.
May 30 Market – 11am-1pm, Sunday. Seedlings for sale from Greens Creek Organic Nursery. Order HERE.
COMING UP: June 20 Market – 11am – 1pm, Sunday.
SUMMER MARKET OPENS on July 11 and runs through October. 10am – 2pm, every Sunday.
COVID rules apply
With lockdown and stay-at-home order, we will open as essential services, and strictly follow public health rules.
Please wear a mask (mandatory).
Please use sanitizer at the door before entering.
Please stand 2 m apart.
Please follow maximum # of customers. Only 1 family per vendor table.
Consider Ordering Online
We strongly suggest that people order online. We will have two lines. One for online pick up only…that one will be served first, and the other for people who did not order online.
Just Food Farm Stand 2022 SPRING markets will be open bi-weekly on Sundays from 11am – 1pm. April – May Market dates are: April 24, May 8, May 22 – Sundays from 11am – 1pm.
Just Food Farm Stand 