Fiddlehead Nursery
235599 Grey Rd. 13 RR#1 Kimberley Ontario N0C 1G0 Collingwood, ON, Canada

Seeds to clean, mints to process, tomatoes ripening and squash a-curing. #autumnharvest

For years I’ve been wanting to write a defence of the (to my mind) much-maligned autumn olive, but for now I’ll just put in a plug for this delicious wild fruit. The shrubs are loaded right now, so I’d implore anyone with the time and inclination to head for this hills and join your wild brethren and stuff your beautiful faces with this marvellous bounty. #autumnolive

Autumn olives are absolutely delicious! We made them into a lovely pink juice with the steam juicer. They’re ripe now, and all over the valley - you can eat them right off the bush (and we do!). #autumnolive #eattheweeds

We have grape juice for sale! Loads of it. We made some with sage, which makes a wonderful drink. Grapes have proven to be by far our most productive fruit crop, and the vines also provide shade for the plants in our greenhouse. The raccoons love them too!

Not entirely sure I deserve to live this well, but I’ll still eat them.

Workshop tomorrow: designing an edible ecosystem, using applied ecology and a wide diversity of edible perennials. Sunday, September 6th, 1pm-4pm. $35/person. Message me to sign up!

Our sea buckthorns are proving to be very reliable producers. We had a great afternoon experimenting with these, making syrup, salad dressing, sauce & muffins! Delish. #seabuckthorn