Jollity Farm

Many great reasons why the CSA model is so good for farmers and the health of the land and soil!

You guessed it - Pigs!! Welcome Wonder & Wilma to The Farm @ The Portal. These Mulefoot hogs are a critically rare breed registered with the The Livestock Conservancy. They will be helping out with pasture rotovation and will form the base for a Thetis Island livestock co-operative. More info coming soon....

Good Morning Thetitians! I am putting together an order for seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company over the next 2 days to help with fundraising efforts for #HurricaneMaria victims in #PuertoRico. If you'd like to share the shipping, we can group our orders together, so please message me here to express interest. We could also sponsor some re-start kits? More info below... Help Hurricane Victims in Puerto Rico by PURCHASING SEEDS! Many people require immediate assistanc...e of food, water, medicine and shelter. All you need to do is purchase the wonderful rare & heirloom seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and they will donate all sales proceeds for the next week (Sept.29 - Oct.6) to World Help. Visit the website to order your seeds: http://www.rareseeds.com/helping-hurricane-victims/ Not only is Baker Street donating money, but they are also providing seeds and garden re-start kits to help rebuild the organic food system on the island. If someone you know has lost a garden in the hurricane and could use a start up seed kit, please send your story and contact information to [email protected] ATTN: Donations. #Iwillhelp #MeUnoAyudar #helppuertorico #aid #UnidosPorPR #PuertoRicoRelief

Something old is new again! New arrivals will be announced later today or tomorrow... any guesses at who/what may be once again joining Jollity Farm? Any hints just wouldn't be 'kosher' at this point, so come on... take a guess!!

What a brilliant greenhouse design! Protecting plants and collecting water too!

Fresh, local cranberries @ Jollity Farm - A Fundraiser! Happy Fall Everyone! Yellow Point Cranberries in partnership with Thetis Island Elementary School and Jollity Farm will be selling cranberries just in time for Thanksgiving as a fundraiser for our elementary school students. Available for purchase: ... 500g Bag Fresh Cranberries - $5 1kg Bag Fresh Cranberries - $8 10kg Box Fresh Cranberries - $65 250ml Jar Cranberry Sauce - $8 (cranberries freeze great and it's only a once a year harvest so stock up your freezer and enjoy in your baking, oatmeal and smoothies all winter long) Place your orders by emailing: [email protected] (deadline Sept. 26) or in person at the farm this Sat (Sept. 23) from 10am to 1pm. Delivery to Thetis Island TBA. #eatlocal #yellowpointcranberries #superfruit

What exactly does pasture-raised eggs/chickens mean? For us, it means our chickens reside in a 'Cackellac', which is something like a mobile greenhouse structure but with all these bell n whistles to ensure the chickens are self-contained with roosts, nesting boxes, water and feed system. Every single morning, the whole operation is moved to fresh ground which means the chickens have access to fresh grass and clean ground to scratch. They fertilize the soil as they go which will mean more fertile soil for the next round of cover/forage crops. By the time they make the full rotation of the field, the first patch should be regrowing nicely and providing more nutritious feed for the flock. #pastureraised #freerangechickens #happychickens #habitatfarm #jollityfarm #healthyeggs

Do we have eggs? Hell ya! Léa Louise Gautheron , you would have some fun with all the beautiful coloured eggs for your photo compositions! Residents of Thetis Island... come and get your pasture raised, heritage breed, organic and non-gmo fed eggs! Call or email to get on the weekly list, or come by on by when the OPEN sign is up.

Some of you may recall the 'tomato & sometimes cucumber greenhouse' (maybe some years called Beta?), over in bramble land. I think it may have been something Grant Babin and Noah Adamson Bond created by recycling some old awnings. Well, it's being born again into a buck barn for our mighty feller, Cliff. Reusing at it's best; not only are the old awnings getting yet another life, but also pieces of the cabins from Camp Columbia are being used for walls and siding. Here are a couple of phases leading up the finale which is coming soon... Fantastic work, Catherine, Noah & Pierre!

Hi Friends of Jollity Farm! We apologize that it's been so long since we've been in touch, but life & farming has kept us so busy these days. We promise to start sharing more photos and news as there are many exciting things happening. In addition to Jollity Farm, Noah and I have started on an adventure in partnership with the Porter Family, and a co-op raising rare breed livestock in harmony with permaculture models to create a living food forest. We'd like to introduce you... to HABITAT FARM. Here's a small taste of what's happening on the farms these days. More to come soon.... Photo credits to another wonderful human and farm helper - Alban Keibler

More new friends to introduce you too. Welcome Buttercup, Neo & Trinity! Jollity's animal friends are making a return and this time they are all part of super fun new initiative on Thetis Island. We have started a livestock co-op in partnership with the Portal and our community. This means a whole group of people can enjoy the positive benefits of caring for animals and sharing in healthy products; without the burden of all the work and responsibility just falling to one or two! You know what they say... "many hands make light work" Yes, it's true! makes it more fun too!