Forty4 Farms

The flowers of Forty4 Farms. Can you name them all??? DM me your guesses and if you get them all right, I’ll hook you up with a jar of my universally famous hot pickled peppers. These are the contest details... #organicgardening #buylocal #paulspickledpeppers

Guajillo chili. This cutie of a pepper is an integral part of Mexican cuisine. At 2,500-5,000 scovilles, it’s a mild to medium spicy pepper packed with flavour. Often used dried, the guajillo is the chili to use for adobo sauce. And that’s exactly what I’m gonna use it for. They’ll get dehydrated and wait for all the beautiful jalapeños to ripen to red. Then, the red jalapeños get smoked in this fancy (see very DIY) smoker until they’re nice and wrinkly. The guajillos then get made into lovely adobo that the newly smoked chipotle peppers will get canned in. Locally grown and produced chipotle in adobo sauce, I couldn’t be more excited to share this stuff with all of you. Stay tuned... #organicgardening #buylocal #chipotle

One of the most satisfying sights I’ve witnessed all year. This being the first year that I’ve grown tomatoes, I was a wee bit apprehensive about tomato bugs. Especially the tomato hornworm. They just devour whole plants in a few hours. At the beginning of the tomato season I started seeing (and squishing) them. After a week or two and a couple dozen hornworms, I stopped seeing them. I would continue to see a little bit of their damage here and there. But no worms. Then, as I... was out collecting tomatoes for my first ever restaurant order, I witnessed this picture. This is a hornworm being devoured by parasitic wasp larvae. No more squishing those juicy bastards! Such a satisfying sight. It also lets me know that I’ve got a good base habitat for all sorts of insects. This is super promising #organicgardening #tomatohornwormdies #biologicalcontrols See more

Corkscrew Japanese eggplant. #organicgardening #funkyveggie #pingtung

Dew drenched dill at dawn. #organicgardening #dillatdawn @ East Gwillimbury

I took a half day off from this heat to actually cook some of the food I grow. With the help of the best fishmongers in Canada @hookedinc, here’s some seared scallops with breakfast radishes, cucumbers, bronze fennel fronds and flowers and a butt-tonne of chives. There a couple orange segments in there somewhere too (not from my farm...) Happy Sunday y’all!! #organicgardening #buylocal #eatlocal #scallopsarethefuckingbest #fancyflatware

The peak of summer market stand. Get your butts to a farmers market near you!!! #buylocal #eatlocal #organicgardening @egfarmersmarket

Sun-drenched doggo at dawn.

When you go to market and don’t pick tomatoes for a day. Then, . This 36L haul is the most tomatoes so far this year and some plants aren’t even ripe yet!!! It seems like the pandemic brought out the tomato growers in all of you lovely people. But if you want a little tomato variety, I’ve got you. Get them Thursday evening @egfarmersmarket and Saturday mornings @newmarket_farmersmarket #organicgardening #notill #tomatoesfordays

Thankfully, I’ve got the crusher out with me today to help me pull out these honking beets. Things slowed down a bit when he found a mini frog... #organicgardening #downbythebeets #toshthecrusher

I’ve got this handsome dude keeping an eye on a couple tomatoes. I hope he likes Japanese beetles... #organicgardening #spidersarehelpers #insectprotection

The first centercut squash from @row7seeds. A hybrid of the stately trombonchino squash. Said to be nutty and meaty, I’m gonna give these a go on the grill. I’ll have a good amount starting next week at the @egfarmersmarket & @newmarket_farmersmarket #organicgardening #buylocal #eatlocal #fancysquash

@egfarmersmarket happening now!! Get your asses to Sharon. So many amazing vendors with amazing local fare. Just be sure to wait for veg until the end of the line as you’ll find yours truly with this summer packed veggie stand. #buylocal #organicgardening #organicproduce #eatlocal