ONLINE SEEDLING SALE starting mid May 2020!

ORGANIC SEEDLING SALE AT LITTLE CITY FARM - ONLINE!  
HEIRLOOM TOMATOES, HERBS, FLOWERS & VEG SEEDLINGS!
ORDERING OPENS MID MAY.  PICK-UP TAKES PLACE END OF MAY (curbside pick-up)
 
This year all seedlings are for sale ONLINE ONLY.  You can browse our selection here.  Our greenhouse is bursting with seedlings and we want to get them to as many good homes as possible.   We are a very small homestead (1/3 acre) but all seedlings are grown with care, love and attention to detail.

All our seedlings are grown by us at Little City Farm, from certified organic seed and using organic soil.  They come to you in compostable paper cups, and are hardened off and ready for you to plant into your garden. We have unique heirloom tomato favourites in all colours of the rainbow like Black Cherry, Amazon Chocolate, Cherokee Purple, Pink Brandywine, White Oxheart, Mennonite Orange, and more.

We have medicinal, culinary and pollinator-friendly herbs like calendula, yarrow, thyme, tulsi, lemon balm, chamomile, nettle..and many more!

Also organic veggies like kale, basil, long red cayenne pepper, cucumbers, watermelon, zucchini, greens, and more...

Annual Seedling Sale May 20

We recently had Angie from Fertile Ground Farm here to lead the annual workshop on Starting Seedlings.  Participants learned about soil mixes, seed sourcing, seed germination, transplanting, and lots of tips for keeping seedlings healthy until they get planted out.

Angie has been leading this Seedling Starting workshop here at Little City Farm for many years.  She has also been our partner in the annual Organic Seedling Sale on the May long weekend.  This year will be the 15th year that this sale takes place. 

For the first time in 15 years, the sale will not be held at Little City Farm.  It has simply outgrown our location!  Thank you to all the customers and volunteers from all the previous years who came to take part in this sale here!  It was so much fun to host it.  However, there is so much demand for the seedlings, that our little homestead yard cannot hold all the vendors, seedlings, and customers for the day.  The sale is going to take place in a nearby location - at the parking lot of Extend-a-family off of Moore St in Kitchener - on May 20 from 11-2.  Angie is taking the lead in the sale this year - we are so happy to pass this on to her and wish her well with the seedlings!  This allows us to focus our attention onto other homestead projects, including our own gardens and classes.  Come join us for a workshop to tour this spring instead!

Find out more about the 15th Annual Organic Seedling sale - go to Fertile Ground Farm or their facebook link to read more updates.  Thousands of seedlings to be had - many heirloom tomato varieties, plus other garden veggies (everything you need!), herbs, perennials, flowers, and more!

A few snapshots from this year's 14th annual organic seedling sale

Thanks to everyone who came out to Little City Farm on Saturday and made our 14th annual seedling sale such a busy successful event.  We wish we could have moved the line a little more quickly, but are also inspired that there is such a huge interest in our community for organic gardening - yay!  We also want to note that this will be the last year we hold this sale here at our location, as it has clearly outgrown our space.

We do have some assorted seedlings (heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, kale, peppers, herbs) still available for those who missed the sale - please contact us directly through Little City Farm.

• thanks to the many cashiers who helped keep customers happy and moved the line through the payment area, keeping track of a huge volume of sales in a very short time
• thanks to the musicians who kept the crowds happy with relaxing music on the back porch stage
• thanks to Kelly for the fun and interactive kids pollinator pledging activities by the pond
• thanks for the Rempel family for firing up the oven and baking delicious pitas (and fresh warm muffins and sweet drinks for all of us first thing in the morning)
• thanks to Karin's mom and dad for the innumerable ways they helped leading up to the event, also handling the baked goods table, and scooping more than 150 dandelion icecream cones!
• thanks to Angie and interns for growing beautiful seedlings, and helping promote this event in such a huge way on facebook and beyond
• and we are also thankful for all the hopeful gardeners who came to buy our seedlings and want to grow great food this summer!  

Organic Non-GMO Seeds (Soil & Gardening Books) Now Available at Little City Farm

SEEDS! SEEDS! SEEDS! PURCHASE ORGANIC NON-GMO SEEDS AT LITTLE CITY FARM!

 Seeds have arrived!

We are proud to now be able to offer our local customers a wonderful selection of organic non-GMO seeds. Seeds we carry come from High Mowing, a small family-owned ethical organic seed company. We have a selection of 48+ different seeds, with many heirloom varieties.


Including zucchini, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, turnip, radishes, kale, chard, lettuces, pok choy, beans, peas, spinach, sweet corn, carrots, herbs, flowers.  Feel free to contact us for more details.

Also available limited quantities of:

•  gift seed pack collections (Kids Garden Collection; Bee Garden Collection; Easy Salad Greens Collection); 
• and bags of certified organic starter soil to get your seedlings started at home;
• as well as gardening and permaculture books!

TO PURCHASE SEEDS:
Drop by Little City Farm on Saturdays between 10-1 pm (from February through May, and also at our May 21, 2016 annual seedling sale), or contact Karin directly at: info (at) littlecityfarm.ca.


LEARN MORE: ORGANIC SEED STARTING WORKSHOP - April 2!
To learn more about starting seeds at home consider taking part in our great annual spring workshop on Starting Organic Seedlings coming on Saturday April 2, led by Angie Koch from the popular local Fertile Ground Organic Farm.

Heirloom Tomatoes and other organic seedlings still available!

For the local folks, or those who missed the seedling sale last Saturday (or who don't like crowds), we still have numerous organic seedlings here for you!  We have 8+ varieties of heirloom tomatoes, plus various flowers, herbs, basil, kale, strawberries and other assorted seedlings. 

Please drop by during our "farm store hours" Saturdays from 10 am-1 pm.  We will have seedlings for the next few weeks, until stock is gone.  We also have organic seeds and other goodies available in our shop here when you come on a Saturday.   Hope to see you soon!

13th annual Organic Seedling Sale

What a great day!  Thanks to all who helped volunteer to make this day run smoothly, the front and back table crews, the bakers, the musicians, the community groups who dropped off info, the seedling growers, and all the folks who waited in line patiently and came out to get seedlings and enjoy the event!  Happy gardening!

We will have a smaller selection of seeds and seedlings available the next several Saturdays from 10-1 here at Little City Farm.

Little City Farm May Sales!

Local folks!  We are happy to invite you to come see us for two occasions in May!

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Fri, May 9 - SOAP & HERBALS SALE 
Homestead Herbals at Bailey's Local Foods 

3:30-6:30 pm, at First United Church, uptown Waterloo

Interested in locally handmade natural soaps and herbal products?  Our Homestead Herbals products are made with locally grown organic and/or wildharvested herbs, local goatsmilk, local honey, local beeswax!  We have natural soaps, shampoo bars, shaving soap, bug spray, herbal first aid kits, pregnancy & post-partum herbals, and more!  Come check out our items during the Bailey's Local Foods pick-up in uptown Waterloo (16 William St W, Waterloo).  Everyone is welcome to come by.   Special discounts for this day only!  Cash payment.  Preview our Homestead Herbals products here.

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Sat, May 24 - SEEDLING SALE 
12th Annual Seedling Sale

9 am-12 noon, at Little City Farm

Don't miss our exciting annual seedling sale!  This fun community event features hundreds of seedlings, including 20+ varieties of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, brassicas, basil, herbs, perennials, strawberries, flowers and more!  This year we welcome back Fertile Ground CSA with their gorgeous seedlings; the Ever Lovin' Jug Band for lively music on the back porch stage; organic baked goods (pies, breads, and more) and a wood-fired oven; and Pollination Canada with important info about pollinators!  Also tours of our urban homestead...and more!

The seedling sale is held at Little City Farm, here at 508 Duke St W, Kitchener.  Please walk or bike if you can!  Bring your own boxes or baskets to carry home your seedling purchases - and CASH payment only.

See you then!

Seedling Sale May 24 - One Month Away!

Our 12th Annual Seedling Sale is fast approaching - one month away on Saturday May 24!  (please note, it is NOT the Saturday of the long weekend this year).  Even though spring has been very slow in coming this year, it's time to think about gardens.  Our grow racks and green house are filling up with trays and trays of young seedlings, and a daily watering routine is a big part of the morning chores.  Soon comes transplanting! 

Come on our to our Seedling Sale just to experience a fun annual community event for urban gardeners and kick off your garden season - or find heirloom organic varieties of tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, basil, kales, broccoli, other vegetables, herbs, flowers and more.  This year there will also be lettuce seedling mixes available, everbearing strawberry plants (yaa!), many varieties of sunflowers ready to plant (consider planting a cut flower section in your garden for making fresh bouquets all summer long - we plan to this year!); and so much more.

With farmer friend Angie from Fertile Ground CSA joining us as she does each year, with her interns and a huge selection of beautiful organic seedlings!  Plus, back by popular demand, music to keep the sale lively from local musicians the Ever Lovin' Jug Band.  Details on our website here.

Seedlings are starting!

The past weeks we have been working on garden plans, seed orders, cleaning the greenhouse and organizing garden trays and supplies.  Seeds have been planted and it finally feels like spring is underway!   This week we planted some of our favourite herbs & flowers with seeds saved from our own garden last fall - calendula, marigolds, zinnias, snapdragons, bachelor's buttons, lavender, sage, summer savory, malva, tulsi basil...(my helper was so ready to start her sunflowers but it's not quite time yet, but she had lots of opportunity to decorate our seed packages instead).  These seedlings will be available at our May 24 Annual Seedling Sale!