sosnicki organics

Ah, the perils of keeping old structures alive. These greenhouses of ours are certainly relics, but suit our needs just fine! We finally have a bit of time to really spend the time/money to fix them properly.  Feels great to vamp them up a bit! Decades ago,these houses were recycled from a site hours away and brought to this farm and set up by Bens dad to house seedling transplants. They are certainly standing the test of time. Tin needs to be replaced, sidewalls, glass replaced etc etc etc. But once it's fixed, cleaned, fired up and the greens begin to grow - life is wonderful! Our entire season begins with these gracious old houses, and we feel humbled to keep them going. No doubt we will add new greenhouses to the farm one day - but not to replace these guys! I intend on keeping these glass relics for a very long time!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all! We wish all our customers a happy, healthy new year a head filled with lots of organic food!  We are growing another new crop for 2016....Baby No. 3!!!  Due right at the beginning of strawberry season too! Imagine that!  It's going to be a very happy and busy year at our farm! And of course, we have decided to make some big changes to operations around here.  New infrastructure, new crops....YEP, why NOT go big when you are in the midst of raising babies?? Haha, that's how it goes! So, once again I will promise to blog, but only when I get a chance.  Best bet if you keep tabs on us: Instagram.  It's a very easy tool for me.  Snap a pic with my phone, add some info, post, done. Pictures worth a thousand words... These crops I graded out/harvested TODAY and will be available TOMORROW at the Brickworks Farmers Market. All minus the tomatoes, I am hogging the last of the last to myself! We are finish...

The fall harvest started out awesome and ended up pretty crappy.  Just with cabbage and cauliflower thou, all carrots, onions, potatoes are great!  Cabbage is a main storage wholesale crop, so that failure will be felt, but we will weather the storm.  We always do.  The cauliflowers are little baby mini's.  And they. are. cute. !!!  Making the most of it.  The baby romanesca's hold a nice green colour when steamed and an amazing light nutty flavor.  My kids are gobbling them up when cooked and tossed with butter.  And some small white cauli's too.  Only available for the next couple of weeks. Then cold weather and possible snow will shut down harvest. Our cabbage will still be available all winter long at Evergreen Brickworks market and at select retailers like The Big Carrot We have a new home at Evergreen Brickworks!  We are located in the Welcome Center, the middle room of the site.  Tucked away in a warm corner...

Harvest is going great this season.  Now, that's easy when you've got stellar help like we've got!  Our helpers are awesome! And this brings peace of mind when you happen to be chasin' kids around all day long! Ben and I came to the realization that the best babysitters in the world are mom and dad. period. So it's completely awesome when when you can rely on helpers to pull together the crops and help maintain the farm you've built up over the years.  A team you can completely trust! I will say it again - every farm business needs reliable workers. period. And we love our crew! Speaking of help, my buddy Tanya Fraser is another super helper, friend and an amazing holistic nutritionist!  I encourage all to visit her website and engage with her! She is SO happy and cheerful and awesome around my kids!  Even offered to babysit and dance and play now and then so I can hit the office or escape outside! What a gem.   It's her lifestyle and what she EAT...

It's a warm fall on the farm.  And it's time to rip around in the fresh air, eat the best of what's in season! Home grown goodness! And our two children are frickin' awesome and making life all the more special and worth working hard for! I don't social media the hell out of the kids, and keep my zillions of photos of them private, so when I post pics its usually because I really, really want to share.  Sadie and Nate are growing up fast and Ben and I are holding on for dear life!  Nate is almost walking! They both eat so amazing! Like, I mean raw sauerkraut, onions, peppers and Sadie dips a lot of things in mustard. Garlic, fruit, no white sugar period...tomatoes like apples....making sure they get a good head start on a world of crap out there! Playing in the dirt, eating dirt off of freshly harvested carrots, bellies full of those probiotics. Nathan is catching up to Sadie fast! She actually tries to coach him to walk now! "Come'on brother! I ...

Dare I say it?  It looks to be an organic tomato year!  Considering last year was a bust, hopefully we can have a great harvest this year.  You just never know, so now is the time to get your order in and make plans to make your sauce within the next few weeks.  Perhaps we'll have tomatoes until fall frost - who knows. But with organic tomatoes, you have to act fast I've learned. Information on how to order follows...  They're are lots of  beautiful tomatoes out there!!  We have a late patch but you never know what weather may bring in the form of blight..so don't hesitate to order. We sell 1/2 bushel cases this year (25lbs each) for $30.  Email me your name, phone number, how many cases you need, and the market you wish to pick up at, and the date you would like them to:  jb@sosnickiorganics.com   (Dufferin on Thursday; Brickworks on Saturday mornings).  We will start shipping bulk, next week, August 20th (Dufferin) and ...

Well, the cucs got downy mildew so we thought it was game over. Then the temperatures took off and we got a spectacular stretch of hot and dry weather! So the plants continue to produce! I was told that temps 30 degrees and above kill spores...so, we have cucs for a short time yet! The roma tomato patch looks fanrastic! Knock on wood. Maybe we'll have a bevy of sauce tomatoes this year?!? Would be nice to make up for the craptastic romas last year. Weeds!!! We are weeding. Then hoeing. Then weeding some more. Basically it's half/half harvest vs weeding. In the picture my guys are tackling baby fall carrots. Sweet Corn! Whooo she's tasseling nicely. Should start harvest within two weeks! Can't wait! If the weather stays nice and warm it should be so flavourful and sweet! Enjoy the rest of your summer, its speeding by once again!!