High Spirits Farm

We are High Spirits Farm (and Learning Centre).
Proud member of the Ecology farmers of Ontario, and National Farmers Union.
We offer a CSA program (Community Supported Agriculture) to a small local membership of families. Free delivery each week of in season produce from our farm gardens each week into the town of Pontypool. 
We include 15-20 veggies and fruits we have been growing successfully for 16 years plus 20-30 additional heritage crops we select for flavour and variety. Our produce is 100% pesticide free! We are also pretty excited to be growing out some varieties for Seeds of Diversity Canada. Along with our members we get to enjoy some neat forgotten gems in the veggie patch!  
Each month from June to October/November, we plan to hold one mini market for members and friends of the farm that can be added for pick up at farm gate, or delivered in town. Value added products such as eggs from our heritage hens can be included.

Other events we are planning for this year include a vegetable plant sale on the May long weekend, nature and art workshops in June outdoors and a fall harvest event.

We still learn, laugh, play and dance with our horses, but our horsemanship program is on hold until May 2021 when we can get outside and have our Covid safety protocols in place.

Our goal is to not only provide our community with healthy, delicious and fresh pesticide free food..we want to foster curiosity, health and learning on our farm.

What are you curious about?
Heirloom plants and seeds? Heritage chickens or rare breeds of farm animals? Edible wilds or country craft skills? Drawing and painting? Or learning how to start your very own vegetable garden?

We were curious about some of the plants that live in the wild edges of our farm. We only have just over 4 acres, but we began a 1,000 plant challenge! The challenge includes every perennial, annual, native, non native, tree, bush, flower etc that lives on our farm. From the lowly carrot, to the mighty black oak.
454 plants so far and counting.  So many plants we used to call ‘weeds’ actually are medicinal, are edible and quite tasty. Some of those ‘weeds’ are trap crops for pests and they leave our food crops alone. Neat!  Some plants we have discovered are rare and hold a special place in our ecosystem.  So this an ongoing project, and this year we are reintroducing some native food crop species such as the American plum that used to live in our area. Mmm. Stay tuned.