McQuesten Urban Farm
785 Britannia Ave L8H 2B6 Hamilton, ON, Canada

My Hamilton Includes Nature: Narratives Do you love nature? Come tell your story! Nature Narratives is our newest initiative to collect and share stories abou...t nature in Hamilton using digital storytelling. Join us in a free online digital storytelling workshop series to create a short multimedia video featuring YOUR nature story and help us celebrate nature in Hamilton. The type of story is up to you what’s good or bad about nature in Hamilton, what has changed, a significant experience you had, etc. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! All you need is a story, access to a computer and a good Internet connection. See the poster for more details.

Our friends at Neighbour to Neighbour Centre are looking to hire a community chef. Details below

From our partners at Niwasa Hamilton

Christmas Tree pickups begin this week - Natural Christmas trees, no longer than 1.2m (6.9ft), will be picked up on your collection day this week and next. Please cut larger trees in half and remove all decorations and lights before placing trees at the curb. Thank you! #HamOnt

Yesterday was a cold one ...but that didn’t stop our awesome volunteers from coming out to the farm! Volunteers helped to harvest over a 100 pounds of storage carrots. These carrots will store for months and will be used in our preserves, fermented products and emergency soup stock for neighbours this winter! ... Stay warm out there!

Yay, congrats Plan B Organic Farms !

Happy Friday and our weekly #dogsofmcquesten day Today we’re featuring a sweet older gal named Lily! Age: 11... Breed: Yorkie poodle Favourite part of the farm: Sniffing around Favourite veggie: Carrots and also loves pineapple.

Check out our volunteer and faithful customer Shona ‘s cat munching on some of our delicious kale! So cute

AND that’s a wrap This year has definitely been a different market for us, given the circumstances...but we couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers, neighbours and customers for coming to our market this season and supporting our community farm through buying our veggies or volunteering their time. We are so grateful ... Please keep an out for info on our upcoming online preserve sale (1st week of December) on FB and Instagram. ***We will have all of your favourite pickled, fermented and farm-made favourites available for sale online and contact free pick up! Thank you, and see you again next summer at our market!

We did it We harvested the last bed of carrots at the farm, though these ones were much smaller this time Volunteers came out last night for our second last volunteer session of the season. ... We are always so grateful for our volunteers and their help, as we close the farm up for the season.

Come join us tomorrow for our LAST ‘Fresh Produce Market’ of the season, 9am-12pm! Fresh, seasonal veggies at affordable prices! This week we will have: Red & curly kale, green & purple cabbage, beets, purple & white turnips, broccoli (limited), red radish, watermelon radish, black radish, acorn squash, carrots, potatoes and parsley! ... Please follow social distancing and cash only! 785 Britannia Ave, behind St. Helen’s school at the brown kiosks.

Pictures for the Homemade Harvest Soup and Pureed Vegetable Medley. Please note when your Soup comes to a boil reduce it to a slow simmer for 30 minutes before pureeing . Thanks for Watching and Enjoy.

Homemade Harvest Soup and Pureed Vegtable Medley

Happy Friday and #dogsofmcquesten This week we’re featuring a senior good boy named Dakota! Age: 14... Breed: Siberian Husky Favourite part of the farm: the grass along the path Favourite veggie: He’s not a veggie dog

Volunteers Shona and RuthAnn harvested the last of our potatoes It was their first time digging potatoes and they did an amazing job! Thanks again to the Kitchen Garden at Dundurn National Historic Site for sharing five varieties of heirloom seed potatoes with the urban farm back in June. ... With the help of many volunteers, we have harvested over 350 lbs of potatoes for the Mcquesten community