About Us
About Us
Our Mission | Our Approach | Our Food | Our Story | Our Farm
What We Do
We are an organic market garden farm growing fresh, local produce and organic seedlings for our community. We provide our vegetables through…
Our Farm Share, or weekly veggie box subscription. Get fresh vegetables delivered to your door, or come and pick them up at the farm. We deliver to Strathroy, Parkhill, London, Komoka and surrounding areas.
Our Self-Serve Farm Store, where you can purchase our produce as well as other local goods. Cash, debit, and credit accepted.
Local restaurants and retail stores.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide our community with nutrient-dense local food that is grown in a way that nurtures healthy soil, protects biodiversity, and reduces our environmental footprint. In doing so, we want to reconnect people with where their food is coming from and how it is grown. We believe that this access and knowledge is empowering, and is a building block to a strong and secure local food system.
Our Approach
We grow our food organically: that means without chemical fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides, and no genetically modified seeds. We let the sun, soil, and water do most of the work! We help where we can with good compost, soil management, the use of cover crops, and integrated pest management.
We grow a wide variety of vegetables on about 1 acre of land. That's called small-scale farming! By staying small, we can do many things by hand, limiting our inputs and use of fossil fuels. We do most of our machine work with a walk-behind BCS diesel tractor. On just an acre, we can stay connected to our crops, and grow very efficiently without having to disturb more soil or increase our environmental impact.
Apart from not adding harmful chemicals to our soil and food, we also do our best to limit our use of fossil fuels, to be energy efficient, and to promote the biodiversity of our environment. We plant trees, allow native plants to grow, and protect the water on our land. We take our stewardship of this land to heart.
We are also committed to growing a community of informed consumers who are connected to the food they eat and the land it is grown on. We hope that one day healthy and affordable food will be accessible to all.
Our Food
We grow over 30 different kinds of vegetables, with many more varieties therein - everything from Arugula to Zucchini. We like interesting varieties and unique colours that aren't grown commercially, but we understand the love of the classics and staples as well.
Our typical crop list includes:
Beans, beets, bok choy, carrots, cabbage, celery, chard, cucumbers, eggplant, fennel, garlic, garlic scapes, head lettuce, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, radish, salad greens, scallions, shallots, spinach, summer squash, tomatoes, turnips, winter squash.
We sell our food through our customized Farm Share veggie boxes, own Farm Store.
We also are new beekeepers as of 2022! We are raising 6 hives. We sell raw, unpasteurized honey through the farm store and in our farm shares.
Our Story
We are Alex and Kimberly Glazirin/Barker, two nature-nerds who fell in love with farming and each other! We also have two incredible young daughters - Rosemary and Lark.
Alex is an inventor, tinkerer, and entrepreneur, who absorbed the values of homesteading and hard work every summer of his childhood in his grandparents' village. He became an environmentalist in his youth, and finally escaped the city to a farm in Australia. It was there, inspired by Joel Salatin, that he came to realize that he, too, could farm. A year later, he started his first farm with rented soil, a stick, and some seeds.
Kim is an animal-lover, writer, and tree-admirer who spent her childhood chasing chickens, catching frogs, and picking peas from her parents' garden. Her desire for justice led her to a bachelor's in International Development; her desire for a calling led her to become an elementary school teacher. But after meeting Alex, she found true purpose in organic farming, which she discovered to be a beautiful marriage of biology, the arts, social change, and family.
Alex began the farm in 2010. In 2012, Kim joined and they farmed together on rented land for 4 seasons in Orangeville. In 2016, Alex and Kim got married, and moved to family land in Strathroy to start their forever-farm. According to an internet quiz, Alex is a Indigo Rose Tomato and Kim is a Napoli Carrot.
Our Farm
Our farm is located in SouthWestern Ontario, just 10 minutes north of Strathroy and 30 minutes West of London. The land was purchased by Paul and Brenda Barker in 1986, when they fell in love with the creek and the woods of hawthorne trees. Kim was fortunate to be able to grow up here, and in 2016 we were given the beautiful opportunity to begin our farm here, and to renew the multi-generational living now forgotten in much of our culture. The farm is 50 acres, consisting of two workable fields, a meandering creek, and 30 acres of woods.