Current News:
2026 Seedling Pre-Orders are OPEN
We have launched our seedling pre-sale! Visit the following page for details and the order form.
About the Farm:
Santosha Farm is our on-site, non-certified organic farm. Never sprayed, we focus on growing flavourful varieties well adapted to our colder climate, and we build our soil with certified organic compost, cover crops, and leaf mulch. We have recently transitioned from selling off the farm to growing solely for the retreats we host. Guests staying with us on a cycling or recreation retreats, or through our collaboration with The Workroom and the Handmade Getaway Weekends, can experience the true seed-to-fork dining experience. We create thoughtful and delicious meals for guests based on what's in season in the garden.
In addition to veggies and herbs, we have perennial fruit growing in a variety of locations, including aronia berries, currants, haskaps, blueberries, raspberries, apples, pears and plums. Most of our fruit are still in varying stages of maturing, but we are expecting our first plums in the next year or two, along with new varieties and apples!
Santosha is a Sanskrit word that refers to contentment, gratitude, and honouring life’s ups and downs. Not only do we feel like these are principles to always live by, but we also feel that they are very applicable to farming. Farming is an extremely challenging venture, even during good growing seasons. One of the challenges of farming is to feel contentment and gratitude in the times when things are not going well, or to be content with where we are at on the “to do” list, no matter how far behind we may be! And to accept that while things will go wrong, things will also go well! We never know what to expect from year to year, and it is always inspiring when we see the first seeds peeking up from the soil.
Our on-site trails meander through woods, wetlands and our gardens, where we grow a diverse variety of vegetables, flowers, herbs, and fruit!
You can follow the farm @santoshafarm
Below is a list of what we grow:
- Apples
- Aronia berries
- Arugula
- Beans – fresh & dried
- Beets
- Blueberries
- Brussel Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Corn (sweet)
- Cucumbers
- Currants (red and black)
- Edible flowers
- Eggplant
- Elderberries
- Fennel
- Flowers
- Garlic & garlic scapes
- Green onions
- Haskaps
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lettuce
- Onions
- Peas
- Pears
- Peppers – sweet & hot
- Pie pumpkins
- Plums
- Radish
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Spinach
- Summer & winter squash
- Swiss chard
- Tomatoes
- Turnip
Our Growing Philosophy
We truly believe that small market farms, based in sustainable growing practices, are the future, and we are members of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario. We believe that we need to take responsibility of our food and how it is grown to help create positive change. Not only are we ‘cide free, but we also leave wild spaces on our farm for wildlife, and we create habitat within our gardens and on the land we steward to support pollinators year-round. This includes things like planting native species to support wildlife with food and habitat, growing appropriate non-native flowers, putting up bat houses, and leaving brush piles to provide birds, insects, and small mammals with food, shelter, protection from predators, and overwintering habitat. On our farm, land stewardship comes first. Everything we produce is based on that.
We actively support local sustainable food initiatives and networks and are proud to be able to incorporate our own produce and other local growers and value added producers into our client's experience.
