Edible Ottawa

At the Gates of the City

• Photo by Matthew Liteplo

• 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.