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, May 7, 2017

May in the Hot House

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So here we are in May, already a week in.  The produce start is slow, or at least, it seems slow to me, party due to the last two weeks of l...
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,...
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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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