Feather and Tendril Farmstead

03/24/2025

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🌱 The Wait Is Over! Join Our Flex CSA TODAY! 🌱

Back by popular demand. Our Flex eGift card is here to give you a better, more customizable way to enjoy our farm-fresh goods — and it’s designed to fit YOUR budget! 💸

💥 Sign up now & get 15% off your Flex eGift card with code "FLEX25" — available March 24 - April 7 ONLY! 💥

Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ Load a minimum of $50 onto your Flex eGift card (you can add more if you want!) 2️⃣ Use the exclusive discount code “FLEX25” for 15% OFF your balance. 3️⃣ Shop ANYTHING at our farm stand — from fresh produce to Thurston's honey, Ben's Bees Wax Candles, and more! 🐝🍯 4️⃣ Your gift card NEVER expires! Use it this season or carry it over to next year. 5️⃣ No set days or spending limits! You choose when and how much you want to spend. 6️⃣ ‼️NEW THIS YEAR:‼️ Flex eGift card holders also get an additional 10% off all purchases at our new Farm Homestead location in Omemee! (Stay tuned for weekday hours and more details!) 🎉

PLUS, you’re supporting your local farm! Your upfront investment helps us get the essential supplies (seeds, tools, and more) to kick off the season. It’s a win-win for you AND us! 🌾

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⏳ Hurry — this limited-time savings code ends April 7 at midnight! Don't miss out! 🌟

03/09/2025

Cant wait to be back at the farmstand with these beauts!

🌾👩‍🌾 Happy "Belated😅 " International Women's Day! 👩‍🌾🌾

Although I'm a little late with posting, I still wanted to take a moment to honor the incredible women who are shaping the future of agriculture, breaking barriers, and making a difference in this industry every single day. 🌱💪

From the planting of seeds at the beginning of the season, to harvesting the final crops, women have been at the heart of farming for generations, and their hard work often goes unnoticed. But not on International Women's Day. We celebrate YOU!

I also want to give a special shout-out to the amazing women who have helped me on my farm—whether it's lending a hand during the busy seasons in the garden, at the farm stand, keeping things going behind the scenes, offering advice, or inspiring me with their passion and resilience. Your strength, dedication, and love for agriculture make all the difference. 💚

Let's continue to uplift, support, and empower women in agriculture and every field, because when women thrive, we all thrive. ✨

01/15/2025

Emerging from a very busy 2 month hiatus of this space, but not quite hibernation; seed orders have mostly all arrived. The grow shelves have been cleared of the accumulated clutter and dust. I signed up for quick books online, which I am currently in the process of inputting info for last year and figuring out systems to implement for this year to stay up to date on administrative bookkeeping tasks. I've also signed up for square and am trying (struggling) to build a (very basic) website to be able to offer 2025 summer bouquet subscriptions, DIY wedding buckets, event booking info, and gift cards. I will have a portable square reader for debit/credit payment on delivery (this will be very limited as I'm not yet available to do regular deliveries), as well as for pop-up events, etc. This is all in addition to mothering a now 15m old child, being primary caretaker for my terminally ill father, participating as a cohort member in "The Exchange Program" with The NFU, doing coursework for Floret's online workshop, crop planning, household management & maintenance, 2 dogs, 14 chickens, and my own health issues. It's a lot! I do have help, though, and I am ever grateful for the love & care of friends and family.

This season in the garden will also look very different as I'm going to grow significantly more flowers and less food than I have since I started gardening. It's very hard to see harvested produce go to waste when you're too busy to process it! When you can't get to the flowers, the bees will, and then the seeds can be harvested to do it all again. Despite the trials & tribulations life throws at me, I remain persistent. Flowers fill me with so much joy, and that is something I love sharing with my community. The garden is a place of solace for me, a salve for grief, and where I feel at play.💓

We're halfway through winter now, on the other side of the Solstice, watching the shadows grow shorter each week while the day slowly lengthens. It's been colder this this year than the few past winters - this is great for pest pressure and builds ever more anticipation for the returning warmth 🙌 🌞

Keep an eye out for an announcement post of 2025 offerings! 🌼 🌸 🌻

10/12/2024

Managed to squeeze one more weekend of flowers in! Both the home stand at 1957 17th line and at 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. On are stocked with jar arrangements and mini pumpkins decorated with dried florals. Harcliff is well stocked with all the produce you could need for your Thanksgiving feasts! Also plenty of decorative gourds for your tablescape, and pure beeswax candles to set the ambiance! Open til 5pm today and again tomorrow, 12-5. Pumpkin arrangements available today only as it supposed to rain tmw and they shouldn't get wet.

10/05/2024

Last weekend for flowers! Frost likely on Monday, and bed prep & fall garden tasks need to get started. Available today & tomorrow at 1957 17th Line, Lakefield On. until 7pm or sold out and at 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. On., along with plenty of deals on an overstock of winter squash and pumpkins, plus an abundance of fresh harvested lettuce, apples, carrots, celery, potatoes, broccoli, beets, radish, eggplant, onions, garlic, sweet corn, honey, maple syrup, and pure beeswax candles until 5pm tonight and again tomorrow 12pm - 5pm.

09/27/2024

An order of four jar arrangements for a customer who loved the one she picked up from the stand last Sunday! 💕💐✨️

Flowers will only be available on Saturdays & Sundays both here at the home stand and until frost. I'm considering doing some winter arrangements or something along those lines, but with driving a school bus (finally got a new route with a new company!) and having a one year old baby with low sleep needs, my time is very limited. We shall see what I'll be able to manage in this next chapter, but lots of plans for 2025 already brewing; I'm going to finally complete the scholarship course I attained 2 years ago that pregnancy and then said new baby took priority over. My daughter is forever my number one priority, but I think I'll be able to dedicate her unpredictable naptimes to my coursework and farm planning over the winter.

Thank you, everyone, for all of your support this season! It has been a long time in the making, and I'm so happy I finally took the plunge and started trying to seriously sell the fruits & flowers of my labor 🥰

09/22/2024

Only jars available today at the home stand 1957 17th Line, Lakefield On. Baby girl has her first tummy bug and hasn't been feeling well, so I couldn't get any wrapped bouquets done - the jars are much quicker to bang out! I had to restock since most of them sold yesterday. Thanks for your support, flower lovers!

Wrapped & jar bouquets also available at Harcliff Farms North today until 5pm or sold out as well. They have loads of amazing pumpkins and delicious, naturally grown & local produce to cook up for dinner and stock the fridge. Larger volumes for canning available upon request - inquire at their stand for more info. 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. On.

09/21/2024

Flower stand is stocked at 1957 17th Line, Lakefield On. and bouquets & Mason jars also available at 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. On. One of the last few weekends to get fresh local produce from Harcliff, and the clock is ticking on that frost that will wipe out the flowers. The dahlias are at their peak and in every jar and wrapped bouquet.

09/06/2024

Dahlias in all jar/bottle arrangements and wrapped bouquets, available today at 1957 17th Line, Lakefield On. until 8pm and 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. On. until 5pm! Frost will be here sooner than we'd like, so enjoy the bounty of the season while the weathers still nice. 💐🍅🍑🥗✨️

09/01/2024

Why not both!

08/30/2024

Flower stand is stocked at 1957 17th Line, Lakefield On. and bouquets & Mason jars also available at 2904 County Rd 36, Buckhorn. Pick up some long weekend flowers to celebrate summer while you can still have a taste - and speaking of taste, the produce at Harcliff is amazing! Lots of goodies to throw on the BBQ. Flower stand open until 8pm tonight, Harcliff closes at 6pm, and both open again tomorrow at 9am.