Jonathan Bruderlein, top left, and Jolianne Demers, their son Milo and a team of supporters and employees farm three acres as an organic market garden and keeps a further six acres under regenerative cover crops on National Capital Commission land just 10 minutes from the city centre.
The new farm store created in the restored century-old barn.
The land at Ottawa Farm Fresh is unbelievably productive, tidy and weed-free. Formerly a chicken and rabbit farm, it now grows row upon row of salad leaves, kale, radicchio, beets, cabbages, pumpkins, squash, carrots, peppers, eggplants and many other vegetables.
The team members grow 35 crops and more than 150 different varieties in the fields surrounding the red brick farmhouse.