| We do not have a check out button, please ensure that your shopping cart is empty if you do not intend to order. Order Here Kitchener Pick Up - Tuesday September 16th
Items in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf SUNDAY September 7th at 11pm *** please note change in deadline ***
Waterloo Pick Up - Friday, September 19th
Items in your shopping cart will be ordered on your behalf Tuesday September 16th at 8pm
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| Amazing fruit
This week's fruit offering from Niagara is very similar to last week's fruit, which is great because if you had a favourite, you can get more! Last Tuesday I got Damson plums and made super tasty jam with them.
Some highlights for Friday include: - Savvy Green Foaming Hand Wash, Bar Soaps and Laundry Soap on the order form this week only!
- New flour options from 1847 Stone Ground Milling
- New crop Honeycrisp Apples from Martin's Family Fruit Farm
- Organic Macintosh, Spartan and Cortland Apples from Apple Creek Farm
- Frozen sweet corn from Bowman's Organic Produce
- Celery from Elvina Bauman
- Our own peach slices in jars! Sweetened with honey from Bauman Apiaries!
- Winter Squash including acorn, delicata, buttercup, sweet dumpling, spaghett and pie pumpkins too!
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Tuesday and Friday Fruit - Some changes for Tuesday!
***Important - Our order deadline for Tuesday fruit is now Sunday at 11pm and our fruit is from Warner's Farm!
We have: - Red Currants, Raspberries
- Grapes:
- Canadice - A virtually seedless red grape with a spicy flavour and no tough skins..
- Himrod - A seedless white table grape with golden yellow/light green fruit.
- Sovereign Coronation - A virtually seedless blue table grape. It is juicy, very sweet, blue grape. Excellent for fresh eating, preserving or juice. We have both IPM and Transitional Organic available!
- Peaches:
- Glowingstar - This peach is from the Stellar line of peaches. It is non-browning and has a deep red skin over a bright yellow melting flesh. The flesh has a lovely red colour around the pit. It has sweet flavour and is completely freestone.
- Cresthaven - A sweet, juicy, medium to large freestone peach that is almost fuzzless. Its bright red skin touched with gold is striking. A non-browning, late-season variety, it is favoured for canning and freezing.
- White Knight - Canada's first original white-fleshed peach has a firm flesh and an aroma like raspberries! These are large peaches!
- Babygold - These clingstone peaches are sweet and juicy with solid flesh (peel with a knife) that are perfect for canning.
- Pears
- Bartlett - Light-green to completely yellow in colour. These are the juiciest pears for fresh eating. You can cook them to make pear sauce or pear butter.
- Plums
- Victory (Blue) - A slightly tart plum that sweetens as it ripens. It is less firm than the Violet plum, a large round blue plum, almost freestone, purplish in colour.
- Violet (Blue) - A slightly tart plum that sweetens as it ripens. They are firmer, dark blue like Stanley plums, large almost freestone with a greenish flesh.
- Damson (Blue) - Aura'sfavourite! A small clingstone plum with an astringent taste that makes great jam, liqueur and plum cake) and Vibrant (A semi-freestone plum with amber coloured flesh and violet-blue skin)
- Italian (Prune) - Super tasty and great for drying, canning, baking and eating
- Vanier (Red) - Red Freestone Plum; Stays firmer longer
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| Foodlink Waterloo Region's local food showcase and fundraiser will be returning to Steckle Heritage Farm Sunday, September 14, 2014, 2-5 pm. Guests will be able to spend a delightful afternoon tasting original food creations prepared by teams of the area's finest chefs and farmers. This year's event will feature 20 all-new chef/farmer pairings offering participants an opportunity to sample exquisite new recipes featuring local foods and farm-fresh products.
This event is Foodlink's major annual fundraiser with proceeds going towards raising awareness of Local Food & Farms. Tickets available online here .
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A note about our fruit from Niagara
All our Niagara fruit is Tree Run, which means that the fruit is not sent to the grading station. The fruit is picked riper (and tastier) and avoids fungicidal baths and defuzzing in the case of peaches. You will find smaller and larger fruit together in your box. Enjoy the ripest fruit first!
Enjoy the ripest fruit first and for the rest, spread your peaches out at room temperature on newspaper on their side or bottom (not stem down) and not touching each other and they'll ripen over the next few days.
Keep peaches and apricots out of the fridge until they are ripe as they can get a mealy texture when chilled.
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