Heart and Soil Farm NS

04/23/2025

Rita the Zeitor (AKA Reeduh the Zeeduh). Our MOST important tool on the farm is this tractor.

We have built things,
hauled things,
tilled things,
moved things,
rescued things (&people),
plowed things and removed mountains of snow with this girl.

We were fortunate to be supported by the wonderful humans at a few years back to get miss Rita.

We’ve used her faithfully almost every single day since. Without Rita there would be no farm or food.

04/23/2025

Here comes the color. Edible flowers for some fun projects with and other local talent comin’ up🌱🫶🏽👩🏻‍🌾.

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04/23/2025

Mark your calendars! August 3rd we’re bringing the market to LaHave River Campground with all the fresh goodies we can load into our truck!

✨📢 Calling all foodies! 📢✨ We have 17 food-related events happening this season! 😁😁

May 17 - Charred Smoke 'N Spice 🍖
May 24 - MJ's Streetside Grill 🌭
June 6 - Breakfast 🍳
June 21 - MJ's Streetside Grill 🌭
June 28 - Food Fundraiser 🍟
June 29 - Coffee Social ☕
July 5 - Potluck 🍽️🍽️
July 12 - Curbside Eats NS 🍔
July 19 - MJ's Streetside Grill 🌭
July 26 - Ice Cream Social 🍦
Aug 2 - Charlie’s Pizza New Germany 🍕
Aug 3 - Coffee Social ☕ & Heart and Soil Farmer's Market 🥕
Aug 16 - Cake by the Maples 🍰
Aug 31 - Curbside Eats NS 🍔
Sept 6 - Charlie’s Pizza New Germany 🍕
Sept 19 - Curbside Eats NS 🍔
Oct 10 - Friendsgiving Potluck 🍽️

📌 www.lahaverivercampground.ca/activities

04/22/2025

Delicious and beautiful food coming from the kitchen at Sushify today!

04/22/2025

Little bit of dirt and a little bit of rain are why you are here. We love our soil. It’s right in our name. The soil on our farm has given us the ability to feed ourselves AND our community, many times over. Our farm sat dormant from being an active horse farm “back in the day”, the horses left us incredible fertile dirt. Having no one cultivate or work the soul let it regenerate and restore itself. We only had to reclaim it from the alders and twenty year old weeds. So we did. I couldn’t imagine living any other way. Happy Earth Day!!

04/21/2025

We’ve added five more spaces to our CSA as we had a few fams who missed the original deadline and we’ve moved some things around.

If you’d like to participate in our 2025 CSA program please DM or email now to reserve your space and learn how your family can eat fr sh food all summer long.

04/21/2025

We are so lucky to have such a great grow space that serves so many ✨other✨ purposes.

A space to hang clothes to dry in winter. 👖🧦
A workspace space on bad weather days. 👩🏻‍🌾☔️🌀
A good spot to rest old farm dog bones while plants get watered 👩🏻‍🌾🐕🐾
A place to sit and share the things we grow. 🌱🪴

Most importantly; it grows a LOT of food for our community 🌶️🥬🥒🥦🥕🧄🧅🍅🫛🫑.

04/20/2025

🌻Those who have ordered sunflowers: we’ll be confirming your orders over the weekend and arranging pick up with you - please check your messages/inbox.🌻

We’ve sold about 60% of our sunflower starters so far, if you’d like to order some here is the original post:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GBgSzCyN4/?mibextid=wwXIfrl

04/20/2025

The 30x50 greenhouse is 70% planted with a quick spring crop of greens, shallots, brassicas, flowers and herbs. The floor is lined with starter trays and today we begin our second round of growing starters for the 9 gardens.

I have no idea where they will go, but I’m good at Tetris and this is year 8, so I’ll figure it out.

The greenhouse allows us to safely house our fragile starters while controlling their environment, an amazing tool for any market farmer (especially ones like me who can’t listen and have plant things right away).

While the weather is charming us all right now, I don’t trust it and don’t plan to transplant outside for a bit. Just gonna keep cramming the bubble full of things to plant outside later.

04/19/2025

🌱spinach - pak choy - black kale - rainbow Swiss chard - mizuna - beets - nasturiums and cut mix lettuces all live here: (for now).

04/17/2025

We’re often asked for recipes so we’ve compiled a few faves to save. Fresh sides (or meals) you can make with a few ingredients and farm fresh veggies & herbs found in your CSA box or at our a ✨upcoming✨market at on Main St in Mahone Bay.

‼️WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE CSA SHARE AVAILABLE‼️ if you missed out on the first round of sign ups, send us a email to claim the last spot.

04/17/2025

🌱🌻Sunflower Sale🌻🌱

All sunflower starters are $5.
There is a limited number available this year so get yours now before they’re gone.

Sunflowers are all growing fast and would love to be the gift you give your Mum in May.

DM or email to order yours 🌻🫶🏽🌱👩🏻‍🌾.

04/15/2025

PERFECT!

04/15/2025

Todays view:
500 red onions planted for . Baby arugula and flashy lettuces coming in nice for ,
ghost peppers popping up for ,
some beautiful (and delicious) edible flowers for ,
some colorful greens for
and all KINDS of starters for our annual CSA families!

This year is going to be big and colorful!
We can’t wait!

04/14/2025

Municipality of the district of Lunenburg - MODL folks, please make sure to share your feedback on the proposed Land Use By-Laws using the new survey they just posted. Make sure your voice is heard.

https://engage.modl.ca/modl2040

First draft suggested only 10 chickens per backyard regardless of property size and no rooster unless you have 2.5 acres. Small scale farm operations would be severely reduced on the number of livestock you could have. 1 pig per 2 acres and no other animals because you would exceed the animal unit restrictions.

We’ve made suggestions on many things including a new agency designed to ensure livestock are cared for following the five freedoms such as SPCA etc. you should be able to own as many animals as you want so long as they have acess to water and food, are housed, have ample space to move and are free from harm.
No hoarding animals in cramped, unsafe practises would be a great place to start. Followed by regulations that need to be followed and by all. A legal structure to ensure those practises and regulations are enforced, could be a game changer. Not only for the land use issue with MODL but, for livestock management as a whole. SPCA absolutely will not get involved, this needs to be put in front of council and pushed. Hard.

They have no voice, let’s use ours.

Shaping the Future of Our Municipality – Stay Informed! The Municipality has been actively working on municipal-wide land use planning to help shape vibrant, sustainable communities for the future. Launched in 2020, this multi-year project focuses on updating key