Chi Garden

26/07/2025

🌞 We will be at Main Street Market (Saturday 9am–2pm) — a beautiful table full of fresh + fermented summer goodness 💚
• Tender amaranth greens – nutrient-rich and vibrant • Garlic chives! • Newly harvested garlic – juicy and aromatic • Potted greens, herbs & edible flowers – perfect for your garden or windowsill
🧄 Preserved favourites: • Garlic Scape Pesto — nut-free, dairy-free • Newly bottled squash miso — sample at the table! Kimchi. Natto. Cordial. Herbal Tea!
🍜 Tofu time! • Silky tofu bowl • Classic block tofu 📣 This is our last tofu week before a short break — come early to stock up!
🌿 New! Plantain Healing Salve - Farm-grown + foraged herbs, tested on bug bites, scrapes, and summer skin woes. Gentle, effective, all-natural.
📸 Last Sunday’s Soy to Tofu event was a joy — thank you to all who joined! More to come soon.
☀️ It’s Great Heat (大暑) — the last summer solar term. Stay cool and hydrated!

19/07/2025

Fresh tofu, mushroom oil, traditional napa and sunroots kimchi, and lots of perennial edible plants Mainstreet Farmers Market

19/07/2025

Tomorrow at Main Market,

Fresh veggies:
• Garlic scapes
• Water spinach (空心菜)
• Super tender amaranth greens - they are packed with iron, calcium, and antioxidants!

And yes we have tofu!
Come early — we made extra this week, still suggest to come early.
Block tofu (what Chinese folks call Southern tofu)
Silky soft tofu pudding – smooth as a baby’s cheek 😍 (No toppings this week — we know you already love it as-is!)

🌸 Also bringing edible flowers — hot weather calls for beautiful salads!

14/07/2025

农场活动 黄豆和豆腐主题
Farm event this Sunday - soy and tofu and plant-based goodness.

12/07/2025

🛒 New this week at Main Market (Sat 9–2):
🧄 Garlic Scape Pesto
Dairy-free, nut-free, made with pumpkin seeds & EVOO.
Finished with a touch of oregano, Sichuan-style scape pickle, and umeboshi — 🥄 A must-try.

🫐 Elderberry Cordial
A few bottles only — from a tree we’re building a relationship with.
(Grateful to inherit this plant from the grower before us.)

Fresh Tofu
Creamy soy milk & block tofu available this week.
(Soft tofu crafter is away and sends apologies.)
✨ Bring your clean container for a refill discount!

10/07/2025

Beautiful day to work at the farm. Re-establishing a relation with a parcel of land we were too busy to care for earlier in the season. Elderberry half blossoming half fruit forming. Milkweed fragrance everywhere (cordial time too). Bee balm so tall and vibrant. Wild grapes forming. Wild carrots laces weaved back to the threads of cloud. Weeding is thus joyous and replenishing to the heart. 🥰⛅️
Oh and by the time I returned, the accidentally exposed ants already moved all their cocoons to the inside of their nests - extraordinary organization!

05/07/2025

Chi Garden will be at two locations this weekend — we’d love to see you there.

Saturday, July 5 – Main Street Farmers’ Market
9 AM – 2 PM
185 Main Street, Ottawa
We’ll have:

Unique seedlings

Delicious preserves and teas

Freshly made Chi Garden organic tofu (soft tofu, block tofu — soy milk-based, plant-based goodness)
Bring your own container (or last week’s tofu container) for a discount on tofu refills.

Sunday, July 6 – Just Food Farm Stand and Garden/Greenhouse Stroll
10 AM – 4 PM (Farm Stand open 11 AM – 2 PM)
Just Food Community Farm, 2391 Pepin Ct.
As part of the BCA Garden Tour, the farm will be open for tours and programming.
We’ll be onsite Sunday only to show folks a greenhouse full of diverse, heat-loving plants, and to offer our products for sale during the Just Food Farm Stand launch near the Pavilion.

05/07/2025

28/06/2025

Today we have more tofu! Soft, block, traditional thick soy milk! All local and organic too. Other new products as well! 9-2pm 185 Main St.

24/06/2025

A visit to a "tropical farm" on a tropical day- 37 C in Quebec, not in Burkino Faso, Johnpiere, practising dry farming, without watering his crops is truly impressive. # #

14/06/2025

We’ll be at the Main Market on Saturday, 9am–2pm! 🍓🌿
In addition to our usual offerings, we’re bringing samples of:
- a full line of tasty ferments
- two refreshing herbal teas
- a soft launch of a new line of product — fresh tofu!. This Saturday it’ll be tofu pudding with brown sugar syrup topping! Made from scratch using local, premium organic soybeans. Limited quantities this week!
And yes — we’ll have lots of edible plants for sale too 🌱
See you tomorrow at the market!
Happy Strawberry Moon!
📷 (photo: wild strawberries just ripening at the farm)