Fresh apples, fall lamb, guinea fowl plus pears, raspberries, chives and lots of picnics at a farm a couple of hours drive away.
Those are all the dreams awakened as I signed up for an annual membership in Miracle Farms, https://sites.google.com/site/lesfermesmiracle/, a permiculture apple orchard run by my neighbours Stefan and Doreen.
My membership in the farm combines with a weekly basket from the rooftop urban farm called Lufa, https://lufa.com/, a seasonal basket with a CSA farmer through Equiterre, http://www.equiterre.org/en, chickens from another farmer and beef from a third farmer to provide most of what my family of four needs.
The opportunity to purchase farm-fresh produce and meat is something that is possible for anyone living in Montreal, but it’s not enough.
I also order milk in glass bottles and lots of organic goodies from my favourite organic grocery store that are delivered to our home from http://www.ecollegey.com. Visits to my local IGA, Becks on Champlain Street occur at least once every two weeks or so.
That doesn’t even include the Saskatoon berries, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, peas, beans, raspberries and arugula we grow in our own garden.
It takes one heck of a lot of food to feed four hungry people!
