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Farming Marginal Land | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Farming Marginal Land Pt. II →. December 21, 2013. Southern Ontario is blessed with some wonderful farmland. The Kingston area, however, is not home to much of it. Of course, glaciation is the defining aspect of the landscape in this part of the world, and where much of the best farmland is where glaciers. Material, Frontenac county is marked, more or less, by the. In fact, 10,000 years later, the land is still slowly rebounding. Strictly speakin...
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Beef | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. We offer beef for sale by the quarter and side, and as our supply allows, by the cut from our freezers. In the off season. Moving cattle across public roads with a pail of beer grains… Fun! Buying a quarter, half or whole beeve…. Shorthorns and Angus stripgraze a fresh break of cover crop on next year’s strawberry patch. Our beef is sold by the pound @ $5/. Based on the hanging weight. Plus the butchering fees. Down Payment and Pick-Up. Owing to ...
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Blog | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario | | Real. Good. Food.
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Pt II – Local Food, CSA and the Business of Farming. February 24, 2014. We live in a world where half of the food produced literally ends up in the garbage. A tragedy, but also ironic, because that’s where a lot of it belongs in the first place. It is a tragedy. With Food has become an industrial commodity, but we can also see food as something. I always laugh to myself when I see bucolic etchings of wagons and pastures on industrial food, or in ...
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Eggs | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Morgan pets each of our hens daily. Actually, she doesn’t. Getting your hands on these eggs:. Friendly fowl. A good way to ruin a shirt! Regulations around poultry are such that the maximum number of hens we can keep is 100. This artificial ceiling unfortunately makes an already rare product even rarer: our supply is limited. It is possible to pick up eggs at the farmgate: Lord willing, we’re around and there’s a few dozen to spare. 1 Doz - $156.
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Gallery | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. A look back at 2014. A sequential “greatest hits” compilation, direct from Charles’ iPhone! Clearing cedar for fence stakes, building posts and future pasture. Taking some SLC students out for a scoot. Glad and Molly looking for oats. Showing off after a long day of hauling wood. Back in the bush with Jonas. Chainsaw milling some cedar. Cedar goes to market. Greenhouse on a budget. Making a manure hotbed as a germination table/heater. Staying war...
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Pt. I – Local Food, CSA and the Business of Farming | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Farming Marginal Land Pt. II. Pt II – Local Food, CSA and the Business of Farming →. Pt I – Local Food, CSA and the Business of Farming. January 25, 2014. I loathe the expression “Community Supported Agriculture”. And I say that as a grower who is doing it. If you haven’t heard the expression before, CSA. Or when consumers take a little look at the frightening world of the global food economy and decide to buy shares in a local farm instead of sh...
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Pork | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Pigs love to be outside – and that’s how we raise them! Pork by the Side and Whole ($3.25/lb hanging weight butchering fees). Will be ready for Feb 1 (approx). And from our freezers. Sausage (Honey Garlic, Italian and Bratwurst) $6/lb. One of our Tamworth sows, Biggie, nursing her litter of 11 out on pasture. Ordering freezer pork…. Renegade piglets cleaning up the horse’s spilled oats…. Our pork is sold by the pound @ $3.25/. The specific figure...
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Farming Marginal Land Pt. II | Salt of the Earth Farm | Kingston, Ontario |
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Salt of the Earth Farm Kingston, Ontario. Real Good. Food. Pt I – Local Food, CSA and the Business of Farming →. Farming Marginal Land Pt. II. January 2, 2014. Ontario Soil Capability Map – Click for a big ‘un. Sure, maybe the Lord did not blanket our region with a mantle of A1 farmland… but it doesn’t mean we can’t farm here! The answer is intelligence, ingenuity, a bit of hard work, some capital expense, appropriate application and patience. It can be done, and has been done the world over. Perhaps a m...
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