Penner Farm - A Specialty Farm in Northwestern Ontario

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

Monday, February 13, 2017

Start of a New Planting Year

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Penner Farm from the air Since my last post in late August, the farm took a different track from what you may expect.  Amazingly, there ...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

My Summer Project

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Apart from a more commercial take to gardening, I had a space in the yard near the house that we had tried to grow grape vines in.  It seeme...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Always a Job to Do

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The last few days we've been repairing the old horse trailer. Lots of rusted out pieces in the front of the trailer so we cut them out...

Heyday...Hay Day...Hay Week!

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Last week we were busy cutting, raking and putting up hay for the winter. A generous neigbour offered his field of about a six acre ...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Did We Go Dark? Not Really - It's Been Busy!

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I have not posted as regularly through July, so I wanted to get the web presence back in order. Photos tend to fill in alot of what I coul...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Progress with the veggie farm!

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Well it is as summer as summer can get today, but otherwise it seems too cool, too wet to be called summer when the days are otherwise long,...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Wood Products - No, We Don't Grow These!

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Over the last 8 or 9 days, the weather has prevented much of the garden work from progressing.  The total rainfall has been in the order of ...
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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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