Penner Farm - A Specialty Farm in Northwestern Ontario

~ Vegetables, forage and crop farming and other associated topics that stem from our project specialty farm ~

Sunday, March 8, 2026

A Little Spring Before Spring

Early season activity on the farm is born from the previous years' results. Paperwork in many forms is probably the catalyst for me. ...

Friday, March 6, 2026

Efficient Agriculture and Pie-in-the-Sky Claims

P enner Farm is a farm operation that has learned about efficiencies of farming through continued expansion. We started with a garden of l...

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Media Kit 2026 Penner Farm started as a hobby garden development on the wild and scenic Rice Lake in 2009 near Dryden, Ontario with the pu...

Monday, March 25, 2024

Heated Seedling Nursery

One hurdle in getting seeds started in the best way possible is to provide the best germinating conditions. Having spent a decade of starti...

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Greenhouse Ventilation in part

Farming is a lot of hard work. The results are borne by the effort put into farming. For many areas in Canada and certainly in Northwester...

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Soil. What about it?

Recently, I have found an interest in the area of deglaciation. That is to say, the mystery of what happened here thousands of years ago gav...

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Additional Land Cleared

With apologies, this blog has been unreasonably inactive for 2 years. Farming takes alot of time and blogging was something that got neglec...

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Penner Farm - What's down on the farm.

Penner Farm: Penner Farm started as a hobby garden development on beautiful Rice Lake in 2009 with the purchase of an old Massey Harris farm tractor, a two-bottom plow and a disc harrow. Some land had already been cleared to complete landscaping for the residence which gave an opportunity to try growing vegetables on a larger scale than in a small garden. The addition of laying hens, some horses and the construction of a Gambrel-style barn in 2013 made for a real farm feel! In the first few years, it did not seem like a move toward local marketing of heritage vegetables, but a few trips to another local producer's farm stimulated interest in growing market-ready vegetables for local consumption. This influence brought Penner Farm to where it is today! With a commercial grade cold frame greenhouse, a second heated greenhouse on line and 3 acres of land cleared, crop rotation and planting versatility became a reality. Additional farming equipment has been added as required over the years, ensuring an efficient, quality operation.

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